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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) dedicated to training judicial powers on issues related to freedom of expression (particularly the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity) - pilot project Mexico

Year when project approved: 
2014
Approved budget: 
US$20 000.00

Mexico is one of the most challenging countries for journalists in Latin America. In 2012, ARTICLE 19 (an NGO) documented 207 aggressions against press workers and media organisations, a 20% increase on the previous year. This project aims to help reduce the number of media workers attacked for carrying out their work in Mexico by: a) improving their understanding of the right to freedom of expression; and b) bring the perpetrators of such crimes to justice.

Documents
Full project description: 
Mexico_project_proposal.pdf
Project details
IPDC Bureau meeting nº: 
58

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Budget
Budget code: 
354 GLO 5002 68

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Beneficiary
Beneficiary name: 
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
Beneficiary description: 

The Knight Center for Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin is a professional training and outreach program for journalists in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our training programs have benefited thousands of journalists and journalism professors throughout the Americas. Professor Rosental Alves founded the center in 2002 thanks to a $2 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In 2007, the Knight Foundation pledged an additional $1.6 million over five years to allow the Knight Center to refocus its work as a digital media center for Latin American and Caribbean journalism and to expand its efforts to serve as an incubator for new journalism organizations. The Knight Center has also helped to create a new generation of independent journalist organizations. These organizations have created self-sustaining training programs to raise the ethical and professional levels of journalism, thereby contributing to the freedom of press and democracy in the hemisphere.

Beneficiary address: 
University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712

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Beneficiary website: 
https://knightcenter.utexas.edu

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Location and contacts
UNESCO

UNESCO Field Office:

Project contacts: 

Professor Manuel Alejandro Guerrero Martínez, UNESCO Chair “Telecommunications and Society” Ibero American University Mexico City, Mexico: alejandro.guerrero@uia.mx, (52 55) 5950 4037

Project place: 
Mexico

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Follow-up and achievments
Summary of the project implementation: 

- The research team comprising an international lead researcher and three national researchers has been set-up and started working early 2015;
- The project advisory committee comprising representatives of the media sector in Morocco established and invited to the launch;
- Research methodology agreed, focus groups and the list of interviews established;
- First draft MDI assessment prepared by the research team (April-May 2015);
- Comments provided by the Secretariat to the first draft (May-June 2015);
- Second Draft received in September 2015, commented and edited by the advisory group;
- Final draft translated into Arabic and French and to be validated in the final national consultation in March 2016.