The award ceremony for the BOBs 2011 will take place on Monday (20 June 2011) as part of the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum.

 

It is with great pleasure that we welcome the following Jury Award winners to the ceremony in Bonn, Germany:

 

Best Blog: A Tunisian Girl (Tunisia)

Best Social Activism Campaign: كلنا خالد سعيد We are all Khaled Said (Egypt)

Best Use Of Technology For Social Good: Роспил Rospil (Russia)
Special Topic Award Human Rights: Migrant Rights in the Middle East (Bahrain)
Best Video Channel: Stands with fist (Iran)
Reporters Without Borders Awards: Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)

 

Claire Ulrich, a BOBs jury member and Benoit Hervieu, Americas chief for Reporters Without Borders.

 

Several of the BOBs 2011 winners provided videos to show during the ceremony. Videos will be posted here after the ceremony. You can read live tweets from the award ceremony by following @dw_thebobs.

 

The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (20-23 June 2011) is an international conference that provides media experts from around the world with the opportunity to meet with scientists, policy makers and representatives from non-governmental organizations. The theme of this year's forum is "Human rights and globalization — challenges to the media."

BOBs winners Mohamed Ibrahim of "We are all Khaled Said" and Ahmed Zidan of "Migrant Rights in the Middle East" will take part in a panel on Wednesday (23 June 2011) discussing the role and effectiveness of social media in recent uprisings in the Middle East. Other panel members include Markus Beckedahl of Germany's Netzpolitik.org, Altaf Ullah Khan of Leipzig University, and Naveen Naqvi, a Pakistani journalist and blogger.