In order to provide precise and truthful information that guarantees freedom of expression, the Púlsar Information Agency (newswire) of the World Association of Community Broadcasters ? AMARC ALC offers community and independent broadcasters a full scope of information from Latin America and the world on issues of interest to the civil society, considering the characteristics of radio language. It has 3,900 subscribers and receives more than 36,000 unique page visits a month to its website. In order to ensure a citizen and gender perspective, Púlsar favors alternative information agencies...
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The proposal is framed by concerns about the severe repressions against the media and freedom of expression in Fiji, and fears across the region about the potential for a domino effect on other Pacific Island States. This project will therefore seek to address problems which weaken free media and pluralistic media development, while enhancing the professional capacity of media workers and their organisations, though provision of training identified as a key need for the region. By building on the experience of the IFJ, notably in South Asia, to create national and regional networks through...
The project aims at establishing and operate a sustainable and comprehensive Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) serving the pastoral community in 14 villages in Ngorongoro district, where 70,000 people live, forming a media platform meeting local development needs. The aim is to increase the diversity of media in the country, and ensure access to information to the community and from the community to the Tanzanian leaders. This proposal seeks support to acquire equipment and provide initial training to the personnel who will operate the station. The Ngorongoro district is highly remote and...
Nkhata Bay (and Usisya, the location where the radio will be installed), are in a 'shadow area' of the communication and information services. Radio signals from the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation and other radio stations barely reach the district, and the citizens have now resorted to Tanzanian Radio stations, thus adversely affecting a sense of belonging to the Malawi nation. The lack of a relevant medium of communication has meant that the population cannot meaningfully participate in issues relating to the rule of law, human rights, development and decision-making. Rural women and...
Latin America and the Caribbean is a very vulnerable region regarding the environment, which is mostly due to the large number of economically underdeveloped small insular states in the region. The urgency for development is contradictory to the care for the ecosystems that distinguishes this region, which generates several conflicts at the social scale. Frequently and unfortunately, the media and journalists do not have a specialty degree, particularly on environmental issues to reflect objectively those issues, playing their role of surveillance against impacts to the environment and to...
Community media stakeholders in Tanzania find it necessary for community media to have its own network of discussion platforms. They came up with COMNETA, a very young virtual network, which is still undergoing registration and lacks organizational capacity. Organizing a capacity-building project for the Community Media Network of Tanzania (COMNETA) is crucial since it is the only place where community media will come together, identify themselves, create dialogue with the government and other stakeholders. It is the point where support will be guaranteed to all members who may not be able...
The Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ALAIC), representative entity of Latin American researchers on the communication area, proposes to IPDC actions aimed at improving the competencies of academic researchers and professors. To this end, ALAIC intends to restructure its website and transform the electronic platform into a portal of academic and professional interest (by incorporating the Latin American Journal of Communication Science, which is currently available only in printed version). ALAIC's purpose is to integrate local researchers in a network and...
Animación Andina is a project to train young animators from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to produce animation media, primarily targeting children and youth, using the imagery, cultural values and traditional story telling of Andean cultures. Animación Andina will be proposed to public and private media sectors as an educational media tool that can be used in formal school education as well as through informal television viewing. The Andean region, like the rest of Latin America, has a treasure trove of cultural expressions in the plastic arts, as well as in music, literature and...
After the 2007 events and Hamas takeover, the security and political situation in the Gaza Strip has remained extremely volatile with serious consequences on the human rights situation. The restrictions on media freedom and freedom of expression have forced many talented journalists to leave Gaza, following threats and intimidations, closure of several media organisations, attacks and arrests of local media professionals. However, many journalists, bloggers and film-makers are committed to continue their work even under such difficult conditions, and proved to be the sole providers of...
In Namibia rural dwellers in the remote areas do not have a platform to present their voices of concerns in a language they understand to those delegated with the responsibility to govern them. However, only few indigenous language newspapers currently exist in Namibia, such as the Caprivi Vision newspaper, which is published in English and Silozi and mainly distributed in the Caprivi region. The lack of training skills in news reporting, graphic design, marketing management and the lack of equipment such as printing facilities and computers still hinder the publication from improving its...
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