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Trained as a science writer/journalist, I count 25 years of experience in media-based communication of sustainable development issues, initially in mainstream print and broadcast media, and later in the development sector. For the past decade, through TVE Asia Pacific, I've been working with TV producers and film-makers across developing Asia, creating factual content on sustainable development and ESD and distributing them on broadcast, narrowcast and webcast methods. I'm also a media trainer, blogger, conference speaker and communications consultant to UN and other development agencies on public communication of science and sustainable development topics using mainstream and new media ...
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sri lanka
social media
climate change
media
freedom of expression
public health
facebook
journalism
ict
science communication
environment
broadcasting
information society
india
human rights
unesco
democracy
public policy
public perceptions
agrochemicals
ckdu
mass media
pesticides
science journalism
communicating disasters
mainstream media
internet
disaster management
climate mitigation
climate adaptation
social justice
climate resilience
climate communication
sustainable development
freedom of information
bangladesh
right to information
good governance
misinformation
data literacy
open data
free speech
media ownership
media reform
media literacy
public service broadcasting
internet censorship
elections
advertising
twitter
media training
education
development communication
imagination
science fiction
research uptake
policy makers
science and technology
myth-busting
suspended disbelief
policy
media freedom
public trust
transparency
communication
south asia
good journalism
arthur c clarke
information
advocacy journalism
kidney disease
arsenic
myths
sri lanka rationalists association
media regulation
ozone depletion
montreal protocol
global warming
nalaka gunawardene
pakistan
floods
disaster risk reduction
citizen journalism
censorship
culture
sri lanka media
fact checking in sri lanka
political disinformation
election integrity
deforestation in sri lanka
“fact-resistance”
evidence based decision making
public discourse
internet and digital media
fake news
disinformation
international fact-checking day
post-truth
fact-checking
climate crisis
greenaccord
darryl d'monte
lapdog media
watchdog media
big media
couplk
nationalist media
media reforms
verite research
media ownership monitor
media capture
media and democracy
media accountability
sri lankan media
icts
disaster preparedness
climate change impacts
resilience
news media biases
droughts
disaster risk reduction (drr)
social media self regulation
nitc 2018
un human rights council
david a kaye
online content regulation
social media abuse
political criticism
web censorship
online freedom
communication rights
social media regulation
urbanization
drought
newspaper circulation
suicides
data sharing
dr hans rosling
dr t somasekaram
cherry-picking of data
fabricated data
data smart
data use
data
asia-pacific network for global change research
scidev.net
researchers
communicating research
bhutan
paro
research outreach
global change
activists
south asia’s policy makers
nepal
short-lived climate pollutants
disasters
black carbon
co2
hfc
greenhouse gases
climate impacts
development journalism
media fellows on poverty and development
mahfuz anam
poverty
media and poverty
journalism & poverty
underdevelopment
poverty reporting
poverty of journalism
inequality
poor journalism
rational thinking
reason
pseudoscience
astrology
carl sagan
hate speech online
critical thinking
anti-science
social media manipulation
science on social media
superstitions
climate concerns
public education
paris agreement
unfccc
behaviour change
climate solutions
public awareness
maldives rti
sri lanka right to information act
corruption
transparency in government
imran khan rti
තොරතුරු අයිතිය
rti in south asia
india’s rti law
public scrutiny of government
bangladesh rti
rti law
pakistan rti
nepal rti
rti
citizen activism
public accountability
citizen rights
media promoting rti
smartphones
social entrepreneurs
sri lanka’s total ad spend
mobile phones
social indicator
jaffna
culture of sharing
civil society
government
sms news
iromi perera
sanjana hattotuwa
digital advertising
media sector reforms
tv news
dilrukshi handunnetti
centre for policy alternatives (cpa)
false alarms
tweeting
lives and livelihoods
multiplicity of information sources
information and communication technologies (icts)
disaster early warnings
indian ocean tsunami warning system
indian ocean tsunami alerts
communities at risk
modern myths
mass kidney failure
humanitarian tragedy
mass media failure
chronic kidney disease
sri lanka media reforms
silent emergency
pseudo-science
conversations
global cacophony
myanmar
blogging
public interest
cyber civility
cyber literacy
ethics of social media
citizen engagement
paris attacks
real time diplomacy
isis
anne-marie slaughter
creative diplomacy
twiplomacy
ramesh thakur
foreign relations
soft power
harlan cleveland
diplomacy
philip seib
diplomacy 2.0
geo-spatial data
open government
government of sri lanka
open minds
hal 9000
data revolution
big data
united nations
public datasets
data journalism
open maps
demand side for data
sustainable development goals
future of journalism
news media industry
digital media
citizen journalists
disruptive innovation
dilmah tea
news gathering
ceylon tea industry
civic media
provincial journalists
intolerance
communal tensions
hate speech
religious tensions
mobile telephony
cyberspace
media business models
broadcast regulation in sri lanka
media innovation
media development indicators
media pluralism
attacks on media
law
governance
media self-regulation
broadcast licensing
broadcast regulation
rule of law
space race
astronautics
star trek
apollo
science
space shuttle
space travel
nasa
space
astronomy
water quality
activist journalism
agriculture
global pesticide trade
cadmium
pesticide regulation
memes
digital democracy
politics
viral videos
cyber election
sri lanka presidential election 2015
citizen action
devlopment journalism
asia pacific
ageing
older people
helpage
history
science education
pulp fiction
popular culture
computer science
fantasy
us culture
robotics
evolution
space exploration
tve asia pacific
lirneasia
scidevnet
iwmi
research communication
public communication of science
science videos
science in society
demons
abraham t kovoor
health myths
superstition
scientific method
public health policy
bird flu
sars 2003
influenza
early warnings
who
disease control
pandemics
robert lamb
sustainability
tarzie vittachi
perfect storm
climate alarmism
panos
climate change communication
climate realism
extreme weather
anuradha vittachi
cloud libraries
e-books
cd-roms
info overload
librarians
libraries
tsunami
chanuka wattegama
future
search engines
quiz
books
health care
environmental activism
risk communication
public intellectuals
breaking news
chemical fertilizer
drinking water
compassion
world health organization
our stolen future
cancer
anil agarwal
theo colborn
alice hamilton
rachel carson
silent spring
chemical industry
sulphur in diesel
lead in gasoline
sherwood rowland
environmentalists
w r wijesoma
spices
chief seattle myth
ecology
biodiversity
science and environment
planet earth
green cartoons
tree huggers
air pollution
george monbiot
technology adoption
analog media
innovation
mobile phone
media policy
wikipedia
telecommunication
wikileaks
comics
broadband
information technology
ozone layer
unep
aibd
tv
new media
dam hazards
kantale dam breach
thailand
press complaints commission
self-regulation of media
internet staticstics in sri lanka
media ethics
online media
online journalism
internet filtering
society
world press freedom day
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