World Press Photo Foundation

World Press Photo Foundation, founded in 1955, is a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands. Its mission is to encourage high professional standards in photojournalism and to promote a free and unrestricted exchange of information. World Press Photo aims to support professional press photography on a wide international scale. World Press Photo is known for organizing the world’s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest. Prizewinning photographs are assembled into a traveling exhibition that is visited by over two million people in some 45 countries worldwide. Education and training are core objectives of the World Press Photo Foundation. The foundation’s most high-profile educational activity is the annual Joop Swart Masterclass held in Amsterdam. Other activities include one-off workshops, seminars and photojournalism training programs. Since 2004, World Press Photo has assisted organizations in developing countries with the aim to strengthen their capacity to provide photojournalism training. World Press Photo receives support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery and is sponsored worldwide by Canon and TNT. For more information about World Press Photo and its educational programs, please see: www.worldpressphoto.org

Free Voice

Free Voice is a media organization based in the Netherlands that strives for press freedom, independent, multiform media and balanced and reliable journalism in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The foundation was established in 1986 by prominent Dutch journalism and media organizations and supports initiatives with money, expertise and networks. For Free Voice, support to media is a goal in itself. Media are more than just communication and information channels. Professional and responsible media are the watchdogs against abuse of power, the voice of the people and bearers of culture. For these reasons they are essential for good governance and democratization of societies. Within Africa, Free Voice focuses on pluralism and quality of the media and supports several media networks. The emphasis is on (community) radio and written press. Free Voice also initiated the Kids News Network (KNN) worldwide with three partners now in Africa (Zambia, South Africa and Mozambique). KNN is a television network that produces informative youth programs. Free Voice receives structural funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch Postcode Lottery. For more information about Free Voice, see: www.freevoice.nl

Africa Media Online

Africa Media Online’s passion is Africans telling Africa’s Story. This South African-based organization is dedicated to enabling African media professionals and media organizations to bring their products to market and compete on an equal footing in the global marketplace. Not only does this ‘digital trade route’ offer training, the digitizing of collections and the provision of online systems to Africans so that they can produce and deliver quality content, but African Media Online also provides and markets content directly to editors and publishers, curators and art directors in Africa and around the world through its image library www.twentyten.africamediaonline.com. Since its inception in 2000, the company has developed beyond just the provision of digital content and will now extend the role of telling Africa’s story by delivering physical products: curating exhibitions and publishing multimedia features and print-on-demand books and magazines, as well as a variety of other offline products. For more information about Africa Media Online, please see: www.africamediaonline.com

lokaalmondiaal

Based in the Netherlands, lokaalmondiaal is a television and video production company set up in 1999. It began making television programs on subjects such as international collaboration, globalization, poverty and sustainable development for local broadcasting stations in the Netherlands. It has since evolved into a professional media organization that publishes several magazines in Dutch and produces a range of (low-threshold) television programs about international issues. Underexposed and forgotten stories are covered by the ‘Not in the News’ journalism project. lokaalmondiaal has considerable specific expertise on the role of sport in Africa. In 2008 it embarked on a large cross-media journalism project: the website www.roadto2010.nl that will follow African teams and players to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Staff of lokaalmondiaal are also part of the Twenty Ten editorial team that will assign stories to participating journalists. lokaalmondiaal is financed by a wide range of sources, including Dutch development organizations and the Dutch government. For more information about lokaalmondiaal, please see: www.lokaalmondiaal.net

Dutch Postcode Lottery

Twenty Ten is sponsored by the Dutch Postcode Lottery, the largest lottery in the Netherlands, which supports good causes such as UNICEF, the Red Cross and the WWF. In 2008 the lottery donated EUR 244 million to the 66 causes which are associated with the lottery. For more information on the Dutch Postcode Lottery, visit National Postcode Loterij.