Bell bajao - Impact, Recognition, Storiesbellbajao
An overview of Bell Bajao’s recognition, media impact, community mobilisation impact, leadership development, partnerships, research findings, involvement with policy makers, challenges and success stories.
Civil Society Coalition on Sustainable Development (CSCSD) formerly known as Campaign2015+ International is a coalition of over 200 registered civil society and nongovernmental organizations committed to citizens’ empowerment, human rights protection, development and peace in Nigeria.
Presentation on 'Women’s Economic and Political Agenda in the post-2015' made...OECD Governance
Presentation on 'Women’s Economic and Political Agenda in the post-2015' made at the meeting 'Women in Public Life in the Middle East and North Africa' on 5 march 2015 in Madrid
Bell bajao - Impact, Recognition, Storiesbellbajao
An overview of Bell Bajao’s recognition, media impact, community mobilisation impact, leadership development, partnerships, research findings, involvement with policy makers, challenges and success stories.
Civil Society Coalition on Sustainable Development (CSCSD) formerly known as Campaign2015+ International is a coalition of over 200 registered civil society and nongovernmental organizations committed to citizens’ empowerment, human rights protection, development and peace in Nigeria.
Presentation on 'Women’s Economic and Political Agenda in the post-2015' made...OECD Governance
Presentation on 'Women’s Economic and Political Agenda in the post-2015' made at the meeting 'Women in Public Life in the Middle East and North Africa' on 5 march 2015 in Madrid
On August 11th, USICH hosted a webinar focused on the role that PHAs can play in preventing and ending homelessness.
There were four presenters:
USICH Director of Housing Policy Kristy Greenwalt
Fresno Housing Authority Executive Director Preston Prince
King County Housing Authority Senior Director of Homeless Housing Initiatives Kristin Winkel
Washington DC Housing Authority Executive Director Adrianne Todman
This Youth Manifesto is a political document especially if we go by the definition of politics as “who gets what, when and how”. It arose out of youth consultative meetings country-wide.
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) accredited with World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) of the United Nations and UN WSIS prize winner 2016 and Champion 2017. BNNRC's outreach extends to local, national and international forums for communicating Knowledge for Media.
BNNRC’s approach to media development is both knowledge-driven and context-sensitive, and it takes into account the challenges and opportunities created by the rapidly changing media environment in Bangladesh including community radio development giving voices for the voiceless.
BNNRC now strives for the following core interventions to contribute in achieving 7th five Years Plan of Government of Bangladesh, UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) Action Plan, and UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) through: Community Media Development (Community Radio & Community TV Community Film) for amplifying voices for the voiceless, Right to Information (RTI) for ensuring improved livelihood of the marginalized, ICT for Development for Bridging the Digital Divide in rural areas, Amateur Radio or HAM Radio for Disaster Risk Reduction, Community Film for Social Transformation.
BNNRC is actively working to improve recognition of the community electronic media sector (Community Radio, Community TV, Community Film) & its work in and involvement with the communities. BNNRC represent the community electronic media sector to Government, Industry, Regulatory Bodies, Media, Academia and Development Partners from 2000. BNNRC is supported by contributions from different development organizations worldwide who share a commitment in building a free, independent and pluralistic community media of voices for the voiceless.
BNNRC in August 2016 organized dialogues through community radios across the country for building capacity of the community radio broadcasters about their participation in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As part of its challenges, BNNRC held the participatory programs to enhance knowledge and awareness of the community radio broadcasters so that they could integrate SDGs agenda in their on-going programs. The initiative facilitated increased services in local communities about the opportunities for economic growth, challenges on environmental protection and the sustainable development for livelihood development.
Efforts to Effectively Reduce Youth and Gang Violence in the City of Long BeachL_Hollie
At the Association of Criminal Justice Research meeting in October 2006 in Long Beach, CA, panelist Lydia A. Hollie, JD/MAED, made a presentation regarding effective approaches to address youth and gang violence prevention and intervention in the city of Long Beach.
On August 11th, USICH hosted a webinar focused on the role that PHAs can play in preventing and ending homelessness.
There were four presenters:
USICH Director of Housing Policy Kristy Greenwalt
Fresno Housing Authority Executive Director Preston Prince
King County Housing Authority Senior Director of Homeless Housing Initiatives Kristin Winkel
Washington DC Housing Authority Executive Director Adrianne Todman
This Youth Manifesto is a political document especially if we go by the definition of politics as “who gets what, when and how”. It arose out of youth consultative meetings country-wide.
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) accredited with World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) of the United Nations and UN WSIS prize winner 2016 and Champion 2017. BNNRC's outreach extends to local, national and international forums for communicating Knowledge for Media.
BNNRC’s approach to media development is both knowledge-driven and context-sensitive, and it takes into account the challenges and opportunities created by the rapidly changing media environment in Bangladesh including community radio development giving voices for the voiceless.
BNNRC now strives for the following core interventions to contribute in achieving 7th five Years Plan of Government of Bangladesh, UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) Action Plan, and UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) through: Community Media Development (Community Radio & Community TV Community Film) for amplifying voices for the voiceless, Right to Information (RTI) for ensuring improved livelihood of the marginalized, ICT for Development for Bridging the Digital Divide in rural areas, Amateur Radio or HAM Radio for Disaster Risk Reduction, Community Film for Social Transformation.
BNNRC is actively working to improve recognition of the community electronic media sector (Community Radio, Community TV, Community Film) & its work in and involvement with the communities. BNNRC represent the community electronic media sector to Government, Industry, Regulatory Bodies, Media, Academia and Development Partners from 2000. BNNRC is supported by contributions from different development organizations worldwide who share a commitment in building a free, independent and pluralistic community media of voices for the voiceless.
BNNRC in August 2016 organized dialogues through community radios across the country for building capacity of the community radio broadcasters about their participation in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As part of its challenges, BNNRC held the participatory programs to enhance knowledge and awareness of the community radio broadcasters so that they could integrate SDGs agenda in their on-going programs. The initiative facilitated increased services in local communities about the opportunities for economic growth, challenges on environmental protection and the sustainable development for livelihood development.
Efforts to Effectively Reduce Youth and Gang Violence in the City of Long BeachL_Hollie
At the Association of Criminal Justice Research meeting in October 2006 in Long Beach, CA, panelist Lydia A. Hollie, JD/MAED, made a presentation regarding effective approaches to address youth and gang violence prevention and intervention in the city of Long Beach.
Ifla afli 2017 keynote international advocacy plan and librariesمكتبات اون لاين
عرض لبحث مقدم ضمن فعاليات لمؤتمر الإقليمي الثالث للاتحاد الدولي لجمعيات المكتبات ومؤسساته (إفلا) في المنطقة العربية بالتعاون مع الاتحاد العربى للمكتبات والمعلومات و المعهد العالي للتوثيق بجامعة منوبة في تونس – الحمامات في الفترة 26-27 أبريل 2017 حول موضوع "دور مؤسسات المكتبات المعلومات والأرشيف العربية في التنمية المستدامة".
http://arab-afli.org/main/post_details.php?alias=Ifla_Afli2017
Innovative Projects: Freedom of Expression and Access to InformationPenhleak Chan
How can development cooperation effectively strengthen the human right to freedom of expression and access to information? In order to explore this question, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with implementing several innovative projects in coop- eration with the Deutsche Welle Akademie. Bringing together the long-standing expertise of both organisations, these projects aim at showcasing the potential that lies in human rights-based media development work across the globe.
For more information on the data journalism training as part of the Cambodia project, please see: www.ddjtraining.org
The five year, $15 million CAMP, implemented by Internews, aims to develop a more balanced information environment in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to increase openness among youth and adults for differing ideas, opinions and perspectives and in turn increase their civic participation.
Digital Communication Network empower a new generation of communicators and influencers, facilitate the formation of communities and develop open spaces for cross-training, sharing and creating media products and services, adapted to a dynamic information environment
Conference presentation beyond the crisis #mmn-migrants media network r0g-a...Stephen Kovats
Beyond the crisis: communication, engagement and accountability in forced migration settings’- #MMN presentation by Thomas Kalunge and Susanne Bellinghausen at the DW conference in Bonn with great interest of the audience in the migration issue, the #MMN approach of actively involving the diaspora in the process and the use of the #dhn Field Guide on the ground in Ghana. https://migrantmedia.network as well as presenting other r0g_agency grassroot projects.
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Research Projects
Research Into The Causes & Effects of The Use of illegal Skin Bleaching Products
The use of Illegal skin bleaching products/ substances to eradicate the melanin from the skin is a practice effecting the African, Caribbean and also our Asian communities, This is by no means a new phenomena, its roots are steeped in historical references as early as 1600, when African communities were kidnapped from their continents of origin and enslaved by Europeans: This served to provide forced labour and production of raw materials, beneficial to various kingdoms of Europe:- The escalated development of colonies in Africa and the Caribbean (neo colonialism) in the continued fight to control the African continent and acquire the resources. The populations were forced to accept the Foreign Empires as their sovereigns and these mechanisms operated instrumented colour codes , race, and tribe distinctions of divide and rule: Our enslaved Ancestars were controlled by systematic torture, punishment, No human rights no dignity, defined and treated worse than animals, inferior, as chattel..property :- subjugated to horrific punishments,including psychological methods, to instrument self hate, and loyalty to the Master:
Brent Allan, Local Co-Chair of the Community Programme Committee for AIDS 2014, provides an overview of the plans for the conference with suggestions for how Australian organisations can be involved.
Kepa, a Finnish NGO Platform for development CSOs, and the Embassy of Finland in Tanzania organized a joint seminar on the 23rd of March called ”Joint action for creating enabling environment for civil society in Tanzania”. The aim of the seminar was to bring together different actors, civil society organizations, donor partners and representatives of governmental institutions in Tanzania to discuss on how together take action for enabling environment for civil society in Tanzania. This presentation summarizes the main points of the seminar discussion as well as the proposed solutions for shrinking civic space we collected from participants during the day. Also some additional information and links are added after the actual seminar. The content is divided into four parts 1) what is civil society space and current trends, 2) how the space is shrinking i.e. current challenges and hindering factors, 3) solutions for tackling the challenges and ways forward.
The YouKnow Project aims to establish a digital interactive platform for web and mobile that solves health care problems leveraging accountability and the right of access to information.
Youknow builds bridges between three main groups; decision makers, YouKnow specialists and public, aiming to create environments with enhanced transparency, accountability, and participation, leading to a positive change. People report, YouKnow specialists mange, visualize, analyse data and convert it into CASES. They communicate with decision makers, create advocacy and campaigning, leading to action and better healthcare systems.
Исследовательская компания "Promotank" представила аналитическую записку "О переосмыслении подходов к национальной информационной безопасности в Кыргызской Республике"
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
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This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
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Презентация проектов Интерньюс
1.
2. We work at the nexus of information, media and
development in more than 56 countries, with a global staff
of 650.
Headquarters and
regional hubs
Current projects
Past projects
3. Information is a root solution
Governance
• Reduces
corruption,
increases
accountability
• Advances civic
engagement
• Supports policy
development
• Enables individual
choice
• Reduces
inequality
• Improves literacy
• Mitigates conflict
• Reduces poverty
• Allocates
resources
efficiently
• Reduces risk
Economic
Development
Social Progress
4. What we do
We build capacity of local
independent journalists,
information and media
activists and civil society.
• We work with the most
information-poor and
excluded communities.
• We engage long-term,
establishing country offices
and in-country staff.
• We build peer-to-peer, local
relationships.
• We strive to leave behind
sustainable organizations.
6. Supporting refugees: Lesbos
“
— Alison Campbell, Senior Director Global Initiatives, Internews
People coming off the boats frequently had no idea where they were. They
did not know Lesvos was an island, or part of Greece, did not know that they
would need to walk across several more countries to get to Germany, had no
idea of the processes they would need to go through along the way.
”
7. Ukraine: Fighting corruption
Our work is about informing people. Maybe after months and years, our
minds will change and our society will change along with it. This work will
help make us ready for the new country.
“
”— Olga Krainyk, Production Editor at Slidstvo.info
8. Media under threat: Afghanistan
Issue: Media is seen as a threat to Taliban control. A decade ago, there was no media
in the country. Today, an established and robust media is again under threat.
Internews approach: Established local, now-independent organizations that have
trained Afghanistan’s media, and created 59 radio stations that ensure local and
national coverage in all 34 provinces. Intentionally built inclusive programs to
emphasize women and youth voices.
Impact: Built a strong, independent, pluralistic media sector and a “first generation” of
journalists. A pluralistic, inclusive media sector has grown up in Afghanistan, uniquely
in the region, and has broad support, both in policy and consumer value.
9. Our Projects in Kyrgyzstan
• Access to Information (USAID)
• Open Asia Online (DRL)
• Media for Improved Reporting on Environment
and Natural Resources in Central Asia (EU
Delegation)
• Public Service Broadcasting Support (USAID)
• Support to Yntymak (NED)
• Media and Civic Participation for Transparency
& Accountability (EU Delegation)
10. Access to Information Project
The program works to increase citizen access to
civically-relevant information
Content Sharing Project
Heroes Among Us
Content Production Support
Webinars
Diversity Content
Innovation Lab
Regional Conferences on Media in Digital Age
Assistance to Digital Switchover
Improve the legal and policy environment for media
Experience exchange visits
Newsroom 2.0 – Coaching
.
11. Results
• Kloop Media School – improved
reporting
• Kyrgyz-speaking journalists
benefited from USAID-sponsored
webinars in Kyrgyz, which helped
them to learn about online services
and other trends in the media.
• Regional study tour to Yntymak
• A2I partnered with “3bMedia” and
“Rentgen Media” to promote
gender rights and opportunities for
people with disabilities through
shows that raise awareness of
target audiences about their rights
to access social services.
12. The Open Asia Online
The Open Asia Online is an informative and analytical
Internet project dedicated to events and phenomena
in Central Asia, which is based on the visual
presentation of information.
14. Media for Improved Reporting on
Environment and Natural Resources in
Central Asia
The project aims to enhance
regional efforts to improve
citizens’ and policy-makers’
access to information and
communication on the
environment and natural
resources in Central Asia.
15. Media for Improved Reporting on
Environment and Natural Resources in
Central Asia
16. Project Highlights
• Geojournalism platform LivingAsia has been
launched
• The sub-grants program has been launched
• Inception workshops for key stakeholders in
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan
• The first training of trainers has been held in
Kyrgyzstan in August 2016.
• Work with extensive Central Asia database
about environmental issues
17. Public Broadcasting Support
Project
• PSB works to promote citizens’
access to information through
accurate and impartial news
delivered by regional public
broadcaster Yntymak and
national public broadcaster
KTRK.
• The project assists Yntymak
through targeted consultancy,
mentoring, and training of the
broadcaster’s top management
and department heads, and its
communications, sales, and
marketing staff.
18. Results
• Assisted in the reform of financial, technical, HR, management,
editorial departments
• Worked with Advisory Board to bring international expertise
• Improved communication strategy, including upgraded KTRK
website, public outreach and life broadcasting with better
connection to the regions
• Helped designing the concept for a 24-hour news channel. KTRK
launched the new Ala Too 24 Channel on September 12, 2016.
• Journalists from Yntymak improved their professional knowledge
and skills through a series of trainings including management,
speech and pronunciation, social media marketing, coverage during
elections, business correspondence, camera operation, as well as
news production training.
22. THREE PLAYERS OF MEDIA SPACE IN
KYRGYZSTAN: "PARALLEL REALITIES"
MASS MEDIA: POLITICS,
ENTERTAINMENT, SCANDALS.
NGO: EXPERTISE, HUMAN CAPITAL AND
WATCHDOGGING.
GOVERNMENT: LEVERAGE, LAWS AND
REGULATIONS, SAFETY AND SECURITY.
23. Expected results
1) Increased capacity of civil
society organizations to
advocate and mobilize citizens
on transparency and
accountability issues.
2) Improved coverage of rule of
law issues by media
representatives
24. ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS
✔ 1.1. A network of media and civil society
organizations.
✔ 1.2. An innovative online platform for citizen
engagement on transparency and accountability:
kloop.kg/akp.
✔ 2.1. Training and mentoring for media
representatives on investigative and analytical
journalism on issues related to rule of law and human
rights: 20 trainers and more than 120 journalists.
2.2. Production of interactive TV programs promoting
the rule of law: to be started.
✔ 2.3. Grants for media professionals / outlets to
investigate corruption: .
26. Network of media and civil
society organizations
• Since September 2015, attracted 70
members from 31 organizations.
• 12 meetings.
• Foreign Agents Law advocacy.
• Amendments to Media Law.
• Recommendation and feedback on
online anticorruption platform.
• Changes in the Constitution.
28. Milyanfan Plant Construction Story:
In a small village, somebody started building a plant between a school and a
kindergarten. In involved harmful chemicals. Half of the village population signed a
petition against it. Plant reps confirmed to Kloop that they do not have a
permission to build. Ecological authorities concluded that it’s illegal to build. LSG
did not have an answer why the construction has been launched without permits.
As a result, plant reps promised to move the construction outside the village.
30. ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS
2.1. Training and mentoring on investigative &
analytical journalism in the area of RoL and human
rights: 20 trainers and 135 journalists.
31. Training and mentoring on investigative &
analytical journalism in the area of RoL &
human rights
• 2 training for trainers (ToT) for editors, senior
journalists and civil society organizations 24
trainers.
• 6 trainings on journalistic investigations for 135
participants (90 women and 45 man).
• Journalists with NGO`s applied to small grants
program on journalistic investigations.
32. ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS
2.3. Grants for media professionals / outlets to
investigate corruption
1) Corruption in construction industry
2) Federation of Trade Unions
3) Access to Vocational Education for Graduates of the
Disabled Children Schools.
4) Department of Social Protection and Police: Violence
Against Women
5) Access to Justice for Vulnerable Groups
6) Security on the Borders, Batken
7) Access to Education for Children with Disabilities
8) Law on Foreign Agents: Implications for Society
9) Lost Kindergartens
10) Children’s Food Safety
11) Rights of Ethnic Kyrgyz (kairylmans) Returning to
Kyrgyzstan
33. So What?
Unique project design on investigative
journalism in Central Asia involving civil
society.
Investigative journalism – time and resource
intensive, needs multiple stakeholders for
safety & sustainability, it’s a team work.
TV covers the majority of the population: we
need TV shows.
Partners are needed to support this big idea.
We believe that the free flow of trusted, local information improves the lives of individuals, communities and societies.
It is 70 if we include the sensitive countries.
Information is a root solution to many of the most difficult development challenges in the world. There are three areas in particular where we see healthy information systems making a significant difference.
In fact, the recently ratified Sustainable Development goals make this explicit in Goal 16 ensuring public access to information is a key to the goal -- Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies.
Governance – Increase in press freedom by 1% reduces the perception of corruption by 5%. For example, investigative and data journalism a wealth of examples. Kenya story about mapping the local budgets spent on health changed the budgets in Kenya.
A sixteen-week data journalism training and production program that focused on raising awareness about misspending, corruption, and inequality in Kenya’s public healthcare system. The program taught journalists to access, scrape, analyze, and visualize public data using digital tools.
One fellow, Paul Wafula, a journalist from The Standard, a major paper in Nairobi, wrote a piece that focused on an emergency cash transfer safety net program for the poorest Kenyans, including orphans and vulnerable children, and revealed that legislators had changed the distribution formula. The result was a county in which 30 per cent of the population was poor was getting the same amount as a county where 80 per cent of the population was poor. After the story ran, Labor cabinet secretary ]to Wafula that $7 million were handed out to ghost recipients
As a result the government ordered an audit to identify and remove ghost recipients and other undeserving cases. They developed new vetting committees that included community leaders to identify recipients, and enlisted a private telecommunications company, Safaricom, to distribute the funding. Various stakeholders contacted the journalist and requested his raw data for further analysis.
Mercy Juma, a broadcast journalist from NTV aired a 12-minute, data-driven video in January 2014 about the impact of drought in an impoverished, isolated region of northern Kenya.
The piece combined personal stories with government data to show the impact of intense and frequent drought-related famines on childhood malnutrition. Before the piece had even finished airing, phone calls from viewers began to flood NTV, and within hours the station had set up a relief fund for Turkana County which raised KES 1.2 million ($14,000). Local politicians offered to sponsor the families featured in the stories. The print version of the story, replete with sophisticated infographics, brought in more donations. She followed up with additional stories as have other Kenyan journalists. The biggest win was when the Kenyan Drought Monitoring Committee asked to share footage from her story. They said they were not aware that the situation had become so desperate and requested access to her data, which she had obtained after long negotiation from the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Natural Resources. The Committee explained that long-term drought relief strategies had been drafted but never implemented.
Economic development – It is an article of faith that healthy markets depend on the free flow of information. A healthy media and information environment is critical to the functioning of a market economy and in fact the free flow of information stimulates economic development.
Another foundational idea comes from the work of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen who showed in a seminal study in the 1970s that since the emergence of a free press in India, there has never been a famine. This remains true today. Finally, a recent study from Intel looks at this issue from another vantage point. When women come online, they have greater education, entrepreneurship and employment which drives GDP and income growth. A study from McKinsey Global from this past September underscores this by demonstrating a very strong relationship between digital inclusion for women as a driver for economic development – one of the top indicators out of 15 total. The others are child marriage, maternal mortality and education. Study – How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth. More than another China. http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/growth/how_advancing_womens_equality_can_add_12_trillion_to_global_growth
Social progress – In many of the places where we work, conflict is an ongoing issues. Perhaps no place more than in South Sudan. There are legions of stories about how the existence of media, radio in particular, mitigated conflict. I will share one.
Our experience tells us that there are four primary elements to empowering communities and individuals through information.
Content: Fill gaps in quality content – the “supply” side
Capacity: Improve the knowledge and skills of all types of news and information producers to effectively fill gaps.
Market Viability: Advance the innovation and expertise necessary to ensure market viability for quality content.
Citizen Voice: Support approaches that encourage citizen voice and participation.
Inclusion: Reduce systemic information exclusion.
Policy: Support policy solutions that reduce censorship of content or limits on access.
Empowerment: Grow the capacity for people to create and access information in all environments, including closed societies.
Expansion: Promote information inclusion for excluded groups, such as women, ethnic and religious minorities and LGBT.
Access: Ensure reliable access to information for the poor & vulnerable - -the “demand” side
Resilient: Cultivate systems that are hard to unravel (through redundancies, community ownership, effective market incentives, and good policy).
Diverse: Advance and protect diversity of all media & information channels.
Secure: Ensure safe and secure access and protect the right to privacy.
Market-Enabled: Promote effective, inclusive commercial platforms with an emphasis on mobile technologies.
Engagement: Support the ability to critically engage with information.
Critical Consumption: Improve people’s ability to discern the validity and integrity of information.
Application: Foster people’s ability to move from passive consumption to productive engagement with content and information.
Demand: Grow public demand for better quality news and information.
Internews has been working on Lesbos for almost 2 months : at time of our arrival, CwC efforts were non existent to patchy with an almost total absence of even the most basic information available to refugees landing on the beach.
In the last weeks Internews has worked closely with UNHCR and all agencies on the island to deliver the following:
7 large banners in 3 languages designed, printed and strung up on key locations. Shows a map> "You are here" with the route to walk and some simple messages about > where to go to register, how long it takes to get there (2 hours by > bus, 2 days on foot) and warnings not to lie down on the road. This all done in collaboration with Mercy Corps and Action Aid. Banner design reproduced in thousands of leaflets printed by Mercy Corps.
Audio: Internews hired fishmonger trucks and megaphones and produced audio messages for broadcast
Dmytro Gnap of Slidstvo.info, winner of the Best Investigation of the Year award, or Ukrainian "Pulitzer Prize," smiles as he stands on the stage of Mezhyhirya Fest on June 6.
ISSUE:
When the Taliban were ousted from power in late 2001, Afghanistan had no functioning media. For its entire history, Afghan broadcast media had been state-run. Authorities under the various regimes stringently censored private press, or simply banned it altogether. During the Taliban regime, television was banned entirely. The state radio network continued to broadcast, but exclusively as a vehicle for Taliban propaganda. A few stifled state publications continued to print, but were seriously devoid of resources, funds, and independent thought.
During the year following the fall of the Taliban, the airwaves over Afghanistan finally began crackling with voices and music. State broadcasting in Kabul returned, and just over a dozen regional state stations were broadcasting a few hours per day by the summer of 2002. Over the next decade, the media landscape in Afghanistan transformed dramatically. There is now a wide variety of outlets and journalists dedicated to increasing the nation’s access to information and entertainment, as well as citizens’ right to be heard and media freedoms.
IMPACT:
Built a strong, independent, pluralistic media sector.
Key successes:
Broadcast – Salam Watandar radio network of 59 stations serving 14 million people in all 34 provinces.
Media development – Five regional news hubs, a competitive journalism school, a data visualization platform tracking violence against journalists and the Afghanistan Media Directory.
Multimedia – 4 Multimedia Centers and innovate labs facilitate access to the internet and enhance digital literacy.
Mainstreamed inclusion of women within project staff and through partners.
Media and ICT policy engagement to establish fair regulatory environment.
Regional cooperation is increased, media participating in our projects are more sustainable and compatible, content is improved using multimedia tools, assistance to legal issues and digital switchover, people meters.
Information and education, partners from three countries produce content jointly and learn together about multimedia, Zanoza, Yntymak, Kloop, Alau TV, Uralskaya Nedelya, Informburo, Asia Plus, Tiroz