New media training kit goes online
The kit - for use both face-to-face and online - consists of an interactive CD–ROM with a printed handbook and will help journalists to acquire better understanding of international EFA initiatives. The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia helped to prepare the kit in consultation with a group of media and education experts drawn from developing countries worldwide.
Media trainers can now access the kit online at www.aibd.org.my/training/distance/ or request a copy from UNESCO or AIBD. Its aim is to show journalists how to push EFA up the news agenda. Journalists are trained how to identify good sources of information, to convince the media gatekeepers of the value of reports on education and to find the story behind the statistics. The kit can also be used to develop the skills and understanding of key stakeholders in EFA, such as policy makers, community leaders etc.
The first full training session based on the kit will be conducted in a workshop organized by UNESCO in conjunction with Highway Africa Conference in Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa in September 2004 and will gather working journalists from 10 African countries.
For more details go to: http://www.webzinemaker.net/signis-en/index.php3?action=page&id_art=81095
US: OPEN FORUM ON SUDAN
http://www.transafricaforum.org/calendarmain.html
On Thursday 12th August, Transafrica, the Africa Initiative of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Black Voices for Peace and the Africa Freedom and Justice Coalition (AFJC) are holding an open forum to discuss and formulate action plans to help resolve the Sudan crisis. The event is taking place at Transafrica's offices on 1426 21st Street in Washington between 6.30 and 9pm.
AFRICA/GLOBAL: PANOS/GKP MEDIA AWARDS
Panos and GKP have called for submissions for the 2004 "Reporting on the Information Society" awards. The topic for this year is "Transparency, good governance and democracy: Do Information and Communication Technologies increase accountability?" Four awards of $1,000 each will be made for the best journalism on this topic produced by journalists in developing and
transition countries. Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=23765
AFRICA: NEW GENDER AND MEDIA AWARDS
As part of the Gender and Media Summit in September the Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA) and Gender Links will be launching the first Southern Africa Gender and Media Awards. The awards will acknowledge excellence in gender aware reporting since the Gender and Media Baseline Study (GMBS) in 2003. The GMBS was the most comprehensive study ever to be undertaken regionally and globally on how women and men feature in the news. It showed
significant gender gaps in the representation of women in the media, as well as biases in the way women and men are portrayed. Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=23766