This week’s News digest from WebWorld, the website of UNESCO's Communication and Information Sector:
- Consultation Meeting on "®Building Bridges" - Kathmandu, Nepal, 19-20 November 2009.
- Fourth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 15-18 November 2009.
- Symposium on Challenges and opportunities of Media Education in India - New Delhi, India, 20-21 November 2009.
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Memory and History
19-11-2009
The current issue of the UNESCO Courier highlights the extraordinary items of documentary heritage - the royal archives of Madagascar, the Song of the Nibelungs, John Marshall's Kalahari films - inscribed this year on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
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20-11-2009 (New Delhi) National Symposium on Media Education in India starts today in New Delhi
As part of celebrations marking the 64th year of UNESCO’s presence in India, the UNESCO New Delhi Office is conducting a two-day National Symposium on Challenges and Opportunities of Media Education in India. It is being held today and tomorrow at the IGNOU campus in New Delhi.
20-11-2009 (Windhoek) Workshop on gender in media education to take place in Namibia next week
UNESCO organizes a one-day workshop for journalism academics and media practitioners in order to present the findings of the Audit of Gender in Media Education and Training in Namibia. The Audit assessed the situation in two institutions in Namibia, in the framework of a larger audit being conducted in 50 institutions in 14 countries of Southern Africa.
19-11-2009 (Brasilia) Human Rights in Community Media: UNESCO Brasilia launches new publication
The UNESCO Office in Brasilia and Oboré, a Brazilian organization dealing with communication and cultural projects, have launched a publication and a series of radio spots on human rights addressed to community radio professionals and volunteers.
18-11-2009 (Oslo) Press councils from South-East Europe attended annual meeting of AIPCE
Thanks to UNESCO’s support, eight representatives from South-East European countries participated in the annual meeting of Alliance of Independent Press Councils of Europe (AIPCE), a European network of independent content regulators for press and broadcast media. The Alliance held its 11th annual meeting in Oslo, from 14 to 17 October 2009.
18-11-2009 (Beirut) UNESCO and LPI promote Linux education in Arab region
The Arab Support Centre for Free and Open Source Software, Ma3bar, signed an agreement with LPI-Middle East, an affiliate of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI), to promote the adoption of free and open source software (FOSS) throughout the Arab world. The agreement was signed during the launch of Ma3bar at UNESCO’s Beirut Office on 5 November 2009.
18-11-2009 (Sharm El Sheikh) UNESCO and TAG-Org launch partnership at Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh
UNESCO and the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org) officially launched their partnership on Monday, 16 November, at the fourth Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which is being held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from 15 to 18 November 2009.
17-11-2009 (Sarajevo) Roundtable discusses media self-regulation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
A national roundtable on media self-regulation took place on 11 November in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, under the theme “Self-regulatory mechanisms in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Experiences and the future”. The roundtable was organized by UNESCO in the framework of its project, Alignment to International Standards in the Media Sector of South-East European Countries, in cooperation with Mediacentar Sarajevo and OSCE.
17-11-2009 (Beirut) UNESCO trains women media professionals from Arab countries
32 women media professionals from the Arab Region attended a training workshop last week in Tunis (Tunisia), which was organized by UNESCO’s Office in Beirut, in cooperation with the Arab Women Organization. The four-day specialised workshop focused on writing for radio and television.
16-11-2009 (Paris) Director-General condemns murder of Mexican journalist Vladimir Antuna García and calls for investigation
The Director-General of UNESCO condemned the murder of Vladimir Antuna García, whose dead body was found in the city of Durango in Mexico on 2 November.
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