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Siemens Africa Profile Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology Journalism

Deadline: 31 March 2011

The Siemens Africa Profile Awards competition is an annual event which seeks to honour journalists who excel in the fields of science and technology reporting. Entries for the 2011 event are now open for work published in print, online or broadcast media. The closing date is 30 April 2011. The Awards Ceremony will be relocated from Cairo Egypt to Doha Qatar, 28 June 2011.

Dates

Competition Opens: 31 January 2010
Entries Close: 31 March 2011
Judging Starts: April 2011
Gala Dinner Event: 28 June 2011

Entries for the 2010 Profile Awards programme will be accepted from 31 January 2010 and 31 March 2011.

Making it easier for entrants to categorise their work as well as broadening the potential scope of entries, entries can be submitted in the following five categories:

Industry. The Industry Sector and its products and solutions address industry customers in the fields of production, transportation and building systems. The Sector is primarily comprised of the activities of the previous business units of Automation and Drives, Industrial Solutions and Services, Transportation Systems and Building Technologies.

Energy. The Energy Sector primarily addresses energy providers, but also industrial companies particularly in the oil and gas industry. The Sector offers a comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions for the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy, which includes solutions for the power plant environment, down to value-added services.

Health Care. The Healthcare Sector stands for innovative products and complete solutions as well as service and consulting across the entire value chain, from medical imaging and laboratory diagnostics to clinical IT.

Information Technology (Business process & Outsourcing). Information technology has developed from a specialist topic to become the backbone of virtually all business processes. What increasingly matters is the ability to optimally interlink all the diverse IT components in an enterprise - from the device level to production planning right through to the overarching control systems.

Terms & Conditions

1. The Profile Awards are open to journalists, writers, broadcasters, correspondents and freelancers whose work is set in the areas of science and technology and has been published in print, on-line, or broadcast on radio or television.
2. Entries must have been published or broadcast between the 1 January 2010 and 31 January 2011.
3. Entries may be submitted by individuals personally or by others on their behalf. An entry may only be submitted under one category.
4. Entrants who submit shared work may not submit the same entry on an individual basis. These will be judged as one entry.
5. Only one article may be submitted under one category, but you may enter as many different articles under one category as you like.
6. Four copies of manual submissions must be provided.
7. Entries will not be returned.
8. The decision of the judging panel is final and no further correspondence will be entered into.
9. Online entry is possible via this website. However, online entries must include an electronic copy of the published work in its original form. The electronic copy must be in one of the approved digital formats. Hard copy entries are also possible as facsimiles or photocopies.
10. Competition Closes on the 31 March 2011.
11. No entries will be accepted after 31 March 2011: Terms and conditions.

All offline entries must be sent to:

Sithembile Mokaeane
Telephone: +27 (0)11 652 2146 (switchboard)
Fax: 086 506 6262
e-mail: sithembile.mokaeane@siemens.com

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