{"id":7328,"date":"2010-01-21T12:55:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:31:24","slug":"breaking-borders-award-nomination-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=7328","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: Breaking Borders Award nomination deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters and <a title=\"Global Voices website\" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/\">Global Voices<\/a>\u00a0launch a new award to recognise campaigners for freedom of expression online.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Google blog: Breaking Borders Award\" href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/introducing-breaking-borders-awards.html \">Breaking Borders Award<\/a> will reward the use of online tools by individuals, campaign groups and government groups to promote and protect freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Prizes of US$10,000 will be handed out in three categories: advocacy, which will recognise an activist or group that has used online tools to promote free expression; technology, which will rewarded the creators of a tool enabling free expression and increased access to information; and a policy prize aimed at policy makers, non-governmental organisations and government officials.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Free societies and prosperity are fundamentally based on freedom of expression, both offline and online,&#8221; says David Drummond, Google&#8217;s senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The internet is providing once unimaginable possibilities for political participation, free exchange of information and democratic movements around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for the awards is 15 February. \u00a0<a title=\"Google: Breaking Borders Award\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/breakingbordersberlin\/\">Details here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking Borders Award nomination deadline:15 February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35731,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions\/35731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}