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UNESCO WSIS Action Directory
How UNESCO is implementing the WSIS Action Plan |
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| Go to the Action Plan Chapter on Media | text only |
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Project funding of the capital, training and 1st year?s operating costs for the transfer of Samoan television programs to the Internet.
The project is aimed to bolster the Samoan language and culture, both in Samoa and to Samoans abroad. It is also aimed to increase Samoan?s IT literacy
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In preparation for the second WSIS Summit, Tunis 16-18 November 2005, UNESCO is organising a thematic meeting on freedom of expression in Cyberspace at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, from 3 to 4 February 2005, prior to PrepCom-2 in Geneva. The purpose of the conference is to discuss the challenges and opportunities this fundamental right encounters in the global network.
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Preserving indigenous peoples? cultural resources by fostering access to ICT, thus contributing to narrowing the digital divide is the aim of a project entitled "ICTs for Intercultural Dialogue: Developing communication capacities of indigenous peoples (ICT4ID)", which UNESCO has recently launched as the direct result of the International Forum on Local Cultural Expression and Communication held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on 3-6 November 2003.
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In September 2004 UNESCO will publish the first report on "Politics of the Information Society: The Bordering and Restraining of Global Data Flows". The report is particularly aiming at informing media professionals about the developments in these complex fields.
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?Africa Animated!? is a UNESCO initiative that assembles resources and expertise for the production of children?s animated cartoons in Africa children?s programmes in Africa and in particular computer-animated cartoons are mostly imported from abroad, despite efforts by regional broadcasters and the audiovisual community in Africa to address the lack of local content production.
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UNESCO's programme in support of creativity and innovation in local content production in radio, television and new media
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The International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) promotes free and pluralistic media in developing countries and the countries in transition. Through media development IPDC helps strengthen communicative & analytical skills of the people and their participation in democratic governance. The priority is given to the projects promoting press freedom and media pluralism, development of community media, enhancing professional capacity and building partnerships for media improvements.
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The Kabul University?s Campus FM radio station which broadcasts on a frequency of 106.7 MHz FM, is based in the University?s Faculty of Journalism and serves both as a training tool for journalism students and an educational out-reach voice for the University in its efforts to further engage the local community. The equipment for the radio station was funded by UNESCO and supplied through the Mallard Company in the UK. It was installed by a UNESCO consultant. Further professional radio operations training is being provided to Faculty of Journalism staff by two technical experts funded by the Government of France.
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The Kabul University?s Computer Training Centre, located within the Faculty of Journalism, was funded under UNESCO?s INFOYOUTH programme and comprises eight computers and a high-speed Internet connection. The facility enables students, especially girls and women, to have dedicated access, free of charge, to global information and e-mail connections without leaving the Faculty premises. UNESCO?s two Afghan IT specialists are providing training to staff and students in a range of Internet and computer applications.
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The Kabul University?s Media Library for students and staff contains thousands of books received after a UNESCO global Internet appeal. The message seeking assistance was carried on UNESCO?s Webworld web-site in early 2002. At that time, the Faculty of Journalism?s dusty reference shelves contained a few old magazines and only one book, Das Kapital by Karl Marx. Now, thanks to the UNESCO appeal and the generosity of donors worldwide, the shelves are stocked with some of the latest media, journalism and technology titles sent by individuals, publishers and universities in the USA and Canada, UK, France, Germany and other countries in Europe, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, as well as from Africa and Latin America.
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The purpose of the online training course on ?News-reading and Commercial Production for Radio? developed by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development with support by UNESCO is to develop the critical faculties of radio broadcasters to develop a personal understanding of the judgments needed in the practice of the art, craft, and science of effective communication.
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UNESCO promotes freedom of expression and freedom of the press as a basic human right, through sensitization and monitoring activities and fosters media independence and pluralism as prerequisites and major factors of democratization by providing advisory services on media legislation and sensitizing governments, parliamentarians and other decision-makers.
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Reel Intercultural Dialogue is a series of five short fiction films produced by UNESCO in collaboration with cinema and television schools in Burkina Faso, India, Israel, Mexico and Romania aiming at increasing intercultural understanding and sensitising young people to tolerance, dialogue and peace. While providing a reflection on the sources of conflict between communities and cultures, the films present alternatives to violence and cultural domination.
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The three-day UNESCO-supported conference was organized by the Moroccan Ministry of Information on the initiative of the International Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication (ORBICOM) and the Swiss Federal Office of Communication as a follow-up meeting to the 1st phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). More than 270 representatives of international and regional media professional and non-governmental organizations as well as media experts from the academic world and the media industry participated in this event.
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A series of seminars on promoting press freedom and the Indonesian Press Law of 1999 specifically targeted to law enforcement authorities (i.e. judges, prosecutors, lawyers, police, organized by the UNESCO Office in Jakarta in collaboration with Indonesia?s Press Council.
The seminars that were held in 11 major cities across Indonesia since late 2002 gathered nearly 600 participants gaining awareness and understanding on the importance of press freedom and on the implications of Indonesia?s Press Law.
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UNESCO's Audiovisual E-Platform, a multicultural, audiovisual online catalogue for independent producers and broadcasters, provides global on-line contact between filmmakers, broadcasters and distribution outlets, enhancing the promotion and distribution of culturally diverse audiovisual content. The Platform contains recently produced, innovative documentaries, short films and tv-magazines, original in form and content, going beyond conventional forms of filmmaking, providing a genuine expression of different cultures, and all ready for on-line, full-length screening.
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ECNETNEWS, a project of UNESCO?s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), is a website linking Eastern Caribbean island newspapers into an on-line, up-to-the-minute forum for accurate exchange of news and debates on issues of primary concern to development and the region. ECNETNEWS is intended to complement the existing weekly publication of newspapers in the Eastern Caribbean and reduce the gap in public information and awareness on Caribbean integration and development issues for regional users, the Caribbean Diaspora and the world at large.
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