The Fundación para la Educación en la Televisión (FETV), started in 1990 to provide education and increase cultural levels of Panamanian society, by providing wholesome entertainment and contributing to form critical thinking through information, orientation and a continuous dialogue with the production of quality programmes. This project is a follow-up of the Programme for Popular Journalists, approved in 2005 by the IPDC. It is based on the positive experience of the aforementioned programme, and is taking into account the feedback of the participants. We now seek to continue with a...
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Based on the premise that the information and the construction of a critical and informed public opinion are fundamental factors for the consolidation of a democratic state, this project intends to train media professionals in fostering spaces for public debate, generating appropriation of the problematic and sensitise on the need to search for effective ways that guarantee the reinsertion of this population to civil life. In order to reach these objectives, this project proposes an action plan made up of research, training and information components and involving the journalists that...
In 2004, with the cry for justice for all Jamaicans, 'TV Court' was produced and aired on a local television station in Jamaica, in an effort to promote a greater understanding of the way the justice system functions. The programme content provided presentations on court dramas and reports over three seasons. This project proposes to facilitate the training of journalists in order that they produce more relevant content for regional media houses now collaborating with 'TV Court'. In addition, the project now seeks to obtain basic video production equipment for training. The development of...
This project is made up of two main components: (1) a regional workshop to train communication professionals in science journalism, and (2) the establishment of an operational network of Science Journalists from Latin America and the Caribbean. The main objective of the workshop is to improve journalists' skills in the management of techniques, languages and communication resources for an adequate the dissemination of scientific knowledge through media. The network will systematically facilitate opportunities for the participants to attend scientific meetings, participate in exchange...
The IIHR is an independent international academic institution that supports the inter-American system for the protection of international human rights. In 2005, the IIHR and IPDC/UNESCO jointly encouraged a regional programme focused on exploring and promoting solutions to the principal problems identified in Mexico, Central America, and the Dominican Republic. A renovated support possibility by IPDC/UNESCO will allow IIHR to make progress on the discussions in this field through a process of analysis, applied research and training, which takes in consideration the opportunities, risks and...
EDUCONS: Caribbean Internet Radio Portal: Expanding the reach and impact of community radio stations
The UNESCO-supported CMC project in the Caribbean has produced exciting individual results of territories extending their creativity to conceive content, relevant to specific challenges in the community. The initial support received for the piloting of Caribbean Internet Radio Portal (CIRP) ? mcclinks website ? has provided an opportunity to integrate those activities as one Caribbean approach to develop CMCs as tools for poverty alleviation and the strengthening of democracy and good governance through freedom of expression and access to information. CIRP is a collective representative of...
CIMAC (Comunicación e Información de la Mujer A.C.) was founded in 1988 by a group of women journalists in Mexico. Women, their needs and achievements, are hardly reflected in mass media in Mexico, the region or the rest of the world. That is the reason why CIMAC works in achieving visions that are more inclusive and plural in the media around us. We do it by producing news about women, training and networking with journalists and building capacity with civil society groups to approach the media in a more efficient way. The journalists that participate in the aforementioned networks are...
Taking into consideration that 93% of all Nicaraguan municipalities have already access to highspeed digital transmission and will have broadband Internet in near future, the proposed project will put the technology advances at the service for the community RTVS, enabling them to interchange at low cost and even live on air locally-produced contents throughout the country. This facility: The National Network for Online Interchange of Audio-Visual Content and its central server will be operated by a Cooperative formed out of participating Community RTVS and technically supported by the...
The following project is the development of initiatives carried out by TV Cultura in previous years to seek a new way of producing television in Peru, which we call Citizen Television (Televisión Ciudadana), that promotes democratic values and encourages the participation of people in the debate and search for solutions to their problems. The concrete results of TV Cultura's efforts over the past 8 years with local channels have been the constitution of the National Association of Local Television Channels RED TV. It is a national network that represents local television channels seeking...
The AMARC ALC's Púlsar News Agency offers community and independent broadcasters a complete range of information on issues of citizen interest on its web page, three daily e-mails to their 3200 subscribers, coverage and specials campaigns. The setting up of a correspondent net is one of the biggest deficits of the last years. Therefore, this project aims to lead a training process that will allow new community journalists to receive a specific training on Human Rights and journalistic production and join the Púlsar's correspondent net. To that end, we propose to carry out a workshop,...
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