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  • BBC World’s ‘The World Challenge’ shortlists India’s Irula Venom Centre as a finalist

    MUMBAI: The World Challenge – a global competition in partnership with BBC World, Shell and Newsweek which seeks to highlight and reward outstanding examples of community enterprise and innovation – has announced that the Irula Venom Centre has been shortlisted as one of 12 finalists.

    Earlier this year, BBC World received a total of 457 entries with the highest numbers coming from India with a total of 71 nominations. Forty five entries came from the United States, 30 from Nigeria , 18 from South Africa and 17 from Pakistan.
     
     

    A panel of judges, including representatives from the World Bank, TVE and Triodos Bank, chose 12 unique and interesting entries to progress to the final stage. The panel recognised the innovative way in which the Irula Venom Centre (India) has been able to create employment for local tribal people, while protecting the local community from the dangers of venomous snakes.

    The Irula community, not long ago impoverished, is now being employed to catch snakes and carefully extract their venom, before releasing them back into the wild. This venom is used to create anti-venom serum for the treatment of snakebites, which, in turn, protects the local community from harm. The project has been so successful that the Irula Venom Centre now supplies up to 80 per cent of the venom for India’s medical needs.
     
     

    A 15-minute film is being produced on each of the finalists, and these will be aired as six special programmes about The World Challenge to be broadcast globally on BBC World for six weeks from Saturday 20 August (every Saturday at 2 pm and 7 pm). Each project will also be featured extensively in Newsweek.

    Viewers can vote for their favourite project through the website of The World Challenge, at www.theworldchallenge.co.uk. The winning project will be announced in November, and will receive from Shell a grant of US$20,000.

    The other shortlisted projects are: Basket Weaving (Kenya), Bio Power (Malta), Coconuts For Erosion Control (Philippines), Elephant Pepper (Zambia), Men On The Side Of The Road (South Africa), Nguna-Pele Rechargeable Battery (Vanuatu), Real Vision, Real IPM (Kenya), Resin Roof Tiles (Ukraine), Riet Vell Organic Farming (Spain), ROMP (United Kingdom), Weddings That Give Back (United States).

  • ‘Launch Pad’ finalist to perform at Mumbai Festival

    MUMBAI: Channel [V], will introduce the five fainalist of the Nokia [V] Launch Pad at the Mumbai Festival on 15 January.

    The bands would do the opening act along with the international performers, like Strings and Rabbi besides Tata Young and Raja of Husan.
     

    The talent show, Launch Pad will provide a platform for Drop Violence (Mumbai), Zero (Mumbai), Helga’s Funk Castle (Mumbai), Zephyr (Mumbai) and Them Clones (New Delhi) which are five of most talented bands in the country.

    The panel of judges include singer Vishal, music director Shekhar and Channel [v]’s Luke Kenny.
     
    Amongst the international performers, Pakistani band – Strings and ‘Bulla ki jaana’ fame – Rabbi. would also perform besides the South Asian signer Tata Young and the ‘bhangra knight’ – Raja of Husan.

    The channel will air the auditions of Launch Pad including the elimination rounds in a unique 3 episode series.

     

  • JWT Bangalore gets 2 ‘finalist’ nominations in TAF

    NEW DELHI: JWT Bangalore has emerged as the only Indian agency to manage the ‘finalist’ nomination at The Advertising Festival (TAF). The event takes place at the Disneyland Resort, Paris from 2-5 September.

     
    JWT Bangalore will not be in race for one but for two awards. It has been short-listed for Madura Garments (Trouser Town) campaign in the `Best Use of Outdoor Design’ and Spice Telecom in the `Best Use of Radio’ categories.

    The awards function will be held on 4 September. To its credit, JWT Bangalore is among the only three Asian agencies, which have made it to the finals of the advertising festival. Besides JWT Bangalore, Leo Burnett Sydney (two nominations) and Dentsu Young & Rubicam Thailand are the other agencies that will be in the fray.

    JWT senior V-P Dhunji Wadia said: “Considering it’s a world stage, the fact that we are the only Indian agency and one amongst a few in Asia makes it even better. The fact that Spice Telecom campaign was a local-regional campaign makes the agency’s effort even more creditable – the Spice campaign was restricted only to Karnataka. Still the campaign is capable of standing out in any world forum and that’s our creative perspective.”

    In the `Best Use of Outdoor Design’ category, JWT Bangalore has been short-listed along with five other agencies including Leo Burnett Sydney. For the `Best Use of Radio’ award, JWT will compete against five agencies. In all, there are 15 categories which apart from television, print, radio, cinema and outdoor, have nominations for work in animation, communication technology, media `stunt’, outdoor design and visual or sound among the other categories.

    Besides awards, the festival also incorporates a market and features exhibitors from media advertising industries across the board – broadcasting (television, radio, new media), publishing (broadsheets, consumer magazines, listing directories, trade publications), agencies (direct marketing, PR sponsorship) and others, providing multiple opportunities for networking and sales.

    The speakers list in the awards function includes WPP Group’s Sir Martin Sorrell and Chris Schroeder of The Washington Post.