Election-Ready Media
West African Elections Project
...a project seeking to develop the media's capacity to use information and communication technology (ICT) as a tool for election coverage and the provision of information and knowledge related to planned elections in Ghana, Cote d'lvoire, and Guinea from 2008 to 2009...
The Role of New Media in the 2009 Iranian Elections
...a report of presentations and discussion from a July 2009 meeting of new media practitioners, Iran specialists, and interested observers who gathered to clarify the role of new media in the Iranian elections and the implications of these technologies for future democratic movements...
Community Radio Capacity
25th Anniversary of AMARC: Capacity Building Workshop for Community Radios for Fighting Poverty and Natural Disaster
...a report from two October 2008 training for trainers' workshops held by the Asia-Pacific section of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC Asia-Pacific). The workshops aimed to strengthen the capacity of community radio (CR) to deal with issues of poverty alleviation and disaster management in the communities CR stations serve...
Escucha! Taking Community Radio Digital in the Americas
...a project to provide 18 Spanish-language CR journalists in the United States and Latin America with a web-based service to share and rebroadcast stories across stations and borders. The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Public Radio Exchange (PRX) hope to create a corps of CR reporters and citizen journalists who will develop and share higher-quality multimedia programming...
