For immediate release: 24 June 2003

Prof Guy Berger from Rhodes University is a nominee for the 2003 
World Technology Awards

London, San Francisco (date) - The World Technology Network (WTN) 
announced today that Prof Guy Berger, from Rhodes University Department of
Journalism and Media Studies has been selected as a nominee in the Media
and Journalism category of this year's World Technology Awards, being held
in association with Nasdaq, Accenture,Microsoft, Genencor International,
Dupont Textiles and Interiors, TIME magazine, Technology Review magazine,
Science magazine, and Business 2.0 magazine.

Winners will be announced on June 25, 2003 in San Francisco, at the World
Technology Awards gala ceremony in the conclusion of the two-day World
Technology Summit. The World Technology Awards honour individuals and
corporations from twenty technology-related sectors selected by their
peers as being the innovators doing work of the greatest likely long-term
significance. Award categories range from biotechnology, space and energy
through to ethics, design and entertainment.

"I am delighted to have been nominated for the 2003 World Technology
Awardsin the Journalism and Media category. Others in this category are
people like the principle scientist of the Google search engine, the news
editor of El Pais newspaper, and USA media futurists like Roger Fidler and
John Pavlik. It's prestigious company to be in," said Prof Berger. 

Nominees for the 2003 World Technology Awards were identified through an
intensive, global process in which current WTN members (primarily winners
and finalists of previous Awards cycles) made their nominations based on
who they think are most innovative and impactful within their particular
field.

James P. Clark, founder and Chairman of the World Technology Network,
added:

"The World Technology Awards program was created to recognize truly
extraordinary innovation on a global scale, the sort of work that could be
described as creating our collective future and changing our world. Prof
Berger's contribution in the field of journalism and media has been
outstanding, and the nomination is just acknowledgement of that fact."

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This year’s World Technology Awards ceremony will provide the closing
event to the 2003 World Technology Summit taking place in San Francisco on
the 24th and 25th of June. For more information on the World Technology
Network, World Technology Awards and World Technology Summit, please visit
their website, www.wtn.net <http://www.wtn.net> .

Notes to Editors

A small selection of those WTN members nominating this year, in various
categories, include:

Osamu Chisaki - Executive Director - Japan Bioindustry Association

Craig Venter  President - The Center for the Advancement of Genomics

Desh Deshpande - Chairman - Sycamore Networks

George Gilder - Chairman - Gilder Technology Group

Tim Berners-Lee - Director - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Sir Christopher Frayling -Rector & Vice Provost - Royal College of Art

Gary Shapiro - President - Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)

Achim Steiner - Director General - IUCN - The World Conservation Union

Georges Kutukdjian - Executive Secretary - World Commission on the Ethics
of Scientific Knowledge & Technology (COMEST), UNESCO

Tim Draper - Founder and Managing Director - Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Mr. Bert Keely  Architect - Tablet PC, Microsoft

Mr. Michael Dell - Chairman & CEO - Dell Computer Corporation

Robert Davies - CEO - International Business Leaders Forum

Lawrence Lessig - Professor - Stanford Law School

Mark Viken - Sr. VP Marketing -Sony Electronics

Colin Hicks - Director General - British National Space Centre (BNSC)

About The World Technology Network

The World Technology Network is a London-headquartered organization that
was created to "encourage serendipity" - happy accidents - amongst those
individuals and companies deemed by their peers to be the most innovative
in the technology world. WTN's areas of interest range from IT and
communications to biotech, energy, materials, and space, as well as
related fields such as finance, marketing, policy, law, design, and
ethics. Each year, WTN members are brought together through an ongoing
global series of Roundtable Dinners, Chapter Meetings and other events.
WTN also publishes "World Technology Intelligence," a bi-monthly magazine
about what is imminent, possible, and important in the technology world,
written largely by its own members - the people driving the most
significant innovations. Central events in the WTN calendar include the
annual World Technology Summit and World Technology Awards - the
culmination of a global judging program through which new members are
nominated and selected and by which the network grows and is refreshed.

About Prof Guy Berger

Prof Berger was nominated for his work in the "Highway Africa" project as
a strategy to empower African journalists for the information age.

Highway Africa is a seven-year-old movement, hinged on an annual
conference, to help the mass media improve Africa’s position as regards
the “digital divide”. The event this year is themed "Mainstreaming Media
in Information Society," and is set down for 8-10 September. 

Prof Berger is head of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies,
Rhodes University, Grahamstown. He is also deputy chair of the South
African National Editors Forum.

Berger initiated the New Media Lab at Rhodes which organises the Highway
Africa conference. In 2000, he won a Fulbright scholarship to the USA to
research "African journalism training in an age of globalization and the
Internet". In 2001/2, he secured a Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award.

For more information, please contact:

Jon Holt at Edelman (London)
Jon.holt@Edelman.com +44 (0)20 7344 1590

Or

James P. Clark jpclark@wtn.net
(Chairman, The WTN)
(Nominators PR contact details)

Guy Berger 082 801 1405