The management of DigitalSENSE Africa Media has called for entries for the 2015 Etisalat-DigitalSENSE Africa Essay Competition on Internet Governance for Development.
The entries can be submitted until June 16.
It is with the theme: Net Neutrality and Nigerian Internet Users.
The Executive Director, Operations at DigitalSENSE Africa, Nkemdilim Nweke, disclosed this during the two-day Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum Series on Internet Governance for Development and IPv6 Roundtable held in Lagos.
Nwekee said the annual student contest has been rebranded with the partnership of Etisalat Nigeria and would now be known as Etisalat-DigitalSENSE Africa Essay Competition.
Nweke also said the essay competition is open to students between the ages of 18 and 30.
Interested candidates are to write an essay not more than 600 words on: “Net Neutrality and Nigerian Internet Users.”
According to her, entries are to be submitted on or before June 16, 2015 to: info@digitalsenseafrica.com.ng and copy remnekkv@gmail.com.
The winning essay, to be adjudged the best by a team of expert panel of judges, she said, would be published in award-winning ITRealms with the profile of the winner.
Also, the winner will be sponsored to the forthcoming Nigeria Internet Governance Forum slated for July 2015 in Abuja.
“The star prize winner will go home with a Laptop plus one-year free data access; second prize to have iPad/Smart phone with six months free data access; and third prize will smile home with Smart phone plus three months free data access,” Nweke revealed.
She further disclosed that interested students must submit their entries alongside a letter of introduction from their institutions, signed by their head of department or student identification cards.