17 Aug 2020 India and COVID-19: A communication failure
By Vincent RajkumarAs India grapples with COVID-19, confused and often disempowering communication has aggravated our present predicament.
17 Aug 2020 Media Development 2020-3 online magazine and pdf
[caption id="attachment_27939" align="alignleft" width="185"] MD 2020/3[/caption] Media Development 2020-3 Expanding Public Communication Spaces In times of crisis, such as COVID-19, information saves lives. Accurate and trustworthy messages are needed so that people know what they need to do and where they can get help. Equally vital are using...
17 Aug 2020 Data as public good, and the public sector
By Parminder Jeet Singh
Understanding the nature of the emerging digital economy and society, and recognising people’s collective rights to their data, can help to determine how society’s data and digital intelligence-based roles should be divided across public, community and private sectors.
17 Aug 2020 Charte européenne des langues régionales ou minoritaires (1998)
Ce traité prévoit la protection et la promotion des langues régionales et minoritaires historiques. Son élaboration est justifiée, d’une part, par le souci de maintenir et de développer les traditions et le patrimoine culturels européens, d’autre part, par le respect du droit imprescriptible et universellement reconnu de pratiquer une langue régionale ou minoritaire dans la vie privée et publique.
15 Aug 2020 On the Screen (MD 2020-3)
Nyon (Switzerland) 2020
At the 51st Festival Visions du réel Nyon (April 17 – May 2, 2020), the interreligious watched and discussed the 14 films of the competition for long films due the Covid-19 situation online and awarded its Prize of CHF 5’000, donated by the Swiss Catholic Church, the Reformed Churches in the French-speaking part Switzerland (CER) and its Media Department Média-pro, and the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, to the film Off the Road / Fuera del camino directed by von José Permar (Mexico/USA 2020).
10 Aug 2020 Tackling hate speech online and offline
There is nothing new about hate speech. What has changed is the mode of delivery. In Nazi Germany, it was state-controlled newspapers and radio. At the time of the genocide in Rwanda, it was a radio station run by the Hutu government. Today, it is social media, until recently largely unregulated.
03 Aug 2020 VAW: A plague within the pandemic but not headline news
Last year the South African president elevated the epidemic of violence against women to national crisis level following pressure from activists, promising to put in place a public national register of offenders, a review of cold cases and harsher penalties for perpetrators.
27 Jul 2020 News media, discrimination, and bias
No apologies for quoting at length from “The Media Isn’t Ready to Cover Climate Apartheid” by Michelle García (The Nation, 17 June 2020). While praising the public service ethic of many media outlets, whose coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic has been exemplary, she notes an apparent reticence or inability to delve in depth into its impact on the most marginalized. She also questions media preparedness for the greater crisis to follow:
20 Jul 2020 Enabling community engagement in humanitarian responses
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In times of disaster, the need to engage with affected communities to ensure useful, timely and accurate information is mutually shared is increasingly recognised as essential.
