Daily Nation Business Writer Joshua Masinde who emerged the overall
winner of the prestigious CTA-ICT4Ag media awards. PHOTO/FILE
Daily Nation Business Writer Joshua Masinde
emerged the overall winner of the prestigious CTA-ICT4Ag (African,
Caribbean & Pacific countries) media awards.
The
awards are a brainchild of The Technical Centre for Agricultural and
Rural Cooperation (CTA)in recognition of the role Information
Communication Technologies (ICTs) play in the growth and transformation
of agriculture in developing countries.
Four reports
on how ICT is revolutionising agriculture in Africa, helped Masinde beat
six other finalists to bag the coveted prize whose award ceremony was
held in Kigali, Rwanda Thursday.
“I am overwhelmed but
I know that it is well deserved knowing that I worked hard for it. I
had a lot of support from my colleagues and I want to thank them,” he
said during a phone interview.
Daily Nation is East African leading newspaper and product of Nation Media Group.
The other Kenyan finalist on the list was Sandra Chao, a business writer with African Review, also NMG’s online publication.
OTHER ENTRIES
Others
were Inoussa Maïga from Burkina Faso, Alain Lietbouo (Cameroon),
Fidelis Zvomuya (Zimbabwe) and Arison Mbuli Tamfu who works for a
Cameroun publication, MALAYSIA MSME News Network, an online news portal.
One
of the reports by Mr Masinde is an overview on different ICT
applications and how they affect the agriculture market in the
continent.
Others entries a focus on why introduction
of apps and their relevance should be rethought as they are products of
regurgitation, non-sustaining and replication of existing ones; an
infographic highlighting statistics, trends and projections of ICT on
Agriculture (he used the example of e-soko which has an impact on 2.5
million farmers) and finally an interview of Catherine Rose Baretto on
Tanzanian version of i-Hub, KINU.The competition received 108 entries, 79 of which were in English and 29 in French
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