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Over the last 5 years the Awards programme has generated considerable media attention. By profiling the Awards programme, and the individual winning projects, Childnet hopes to encourage "best practice" and draw attention to the individual winning projects.

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• Childnet Academy Contest Spotlights Best Of The Web Created By Young People 11 December 2003
  As a journalist, I usually keep some distance between myself and the subjects I write about. This column is an exception. I'm writing about the Cable & Wireless Childnet Academy, which sponsors a contest to recognize the work of young people around the world who are using the Internet to help make the world a better and smaller place... >>more
  
  
  
• Award for Child Soldiers site 25 April 2003
  A website has been honoured for its role in helping former child soldiers in Sierra Leone recover from their ordeal. The Sierra Leonean site [www.childsoldiers.org] allows former child solders to talk about their experiences through writings, drawing or music, as well as exchange emails with other teens from around the world... >>more
  
  
  
• Potter site scoops two Childnet Awards 25 April 2003
  A Harry Potter themed site was the big winner at the Cable & Wireless Childnet Awards on Thursday night. The Daily Prophet took the first-ever Newsround Award, voted for by more than 1,000 people. The site was set up by 17-year-old American Heather Lawver and is like an online newspaper... >>more
  
  
  
• British Kids Scoop Worldwide Net Prizes 25 April 2003
  SARAH Bowler is hopping mad - and she's not going to take it any more. The 13-year-old is so angry about global warming that she's set up a website to promote green schemes. And her hard work has been recognised with an award in an international competition to find the best websites designed by children. The schoolgirl from Rotherham, S Yorks, was inspired to launch uk.geocities.com/coolkidsforacoolclimate when she attended a conference on the environment in Canada... >>more
  
  
  
• Web Projects For Kids Get Their Due 25 April 2003
  Childnet International, a London-based nonprofit group, scours the world for websites and other online projects that benefit children. I'm writing from London, where this year's awards ceremony took place on Thursday, April 24. Don't expect this to be a dispassionate "objective" report. I don't mind sharing the fact that I love this organization... >>more
  
  
  
• The Kids Are Alright 5 February 2003
  Outstanding websites built by children are being honoured in this year's Childnet Awards. Anna Soderblom casts an eye over the shortlist. Five outstanding UK-based websites have made it on to the shortlist for this year's Childnet Awards. There have been entries to the Cable and Wireless-sponsored competition from over 50 countries. Nigel Williams, chief executive and founder of Childnet, says the range of entries have seen "extreme contrasts"... >>more
  

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