Full coverage: Information & media

30.07.2004 By launching their own newspaper, children from Delhi's slums have created a platform for presenting their views on issues of concern to their community.

29.07.2004 Las organizaciones latinoamericanas de comunicación que promueven los derechos de la Comunicación, reunidas en la ciudad de Quito en el marco del Foro Social de las Américas, se dirigen a comunicadoras y comunicadores, miembros de la sociedad civil y a la opinión pública en general.
En: Minga Informativa

28.07.2004 Prognoze utemeljene na rezultatima istrazivanja objavljenim u studiji "The Internet Access Market in Croatia 2003-2008", koje je provela regionalna podruznica IDCa, kazuju kako je do kraja tekuce godine u Hrvatskoj moguce ocekivati 1,197,500 korisnika Interneta.

28.07.2004 Los medios de comunicación son el primer poder en Brasil, porque imponen la agenda a los gobiernos, opinó el teólogo brasileño Frei Betto este lunes, en la primera jornada de debates del I Foro Social de las Américas.

26.07.2004 Canada's role in the world is embedded in a variety of narratives - about an "honest broker," a nation without imperial aspirations, a moderating influence on the U.S. But more and more people know better. Justin Podur explores humanitarianism, peacekeeping and "other myths."

22.07.2004 On July 11 2004, the Media Council of Zambia (MECOZ), a self-regulatory media council, was officially launched at a press briefing held at the Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka.

19.07.2004 British Columbia is outsourcing desktop computer support for all government employees. The company getting the gig: IBM. Public workers once again fear that people's privacy could be on the line. IBM would have access to most files handled by government — and could be compelled to share all with the FBI under the USA Patriot Act.

17.07.2004 In the novel 1984, George Orwell depicts a world where powerful and secretive authorities - "Big Brother" - scrutinize the intimate details of citizens' personal lives. That fiction may be closer to reality than most Canadians think.

14.07.2004 Il Grande Fratello di AMREF trionfa a Bangkok. Si è conclusa con una standing ovation, infatti, la prima asiatica di Big Brother Aids, il film-documentario di Giulio Cederna e Paolo Novelli, prodotto da AMREF, Fondazione africana per la medicina e la ricerca, con il contributo di Raitre, e proiettato ieri sera all’Aids Film Festival, la rassegna cinematografica promossa nell’ambito della XV Conferenza internazionale sull’Aids. Girato lo scorso anno in Uganda, Big Brother Aids racconta il ruolo strategico della comunicazione e dei media nella lotta a una delle peggiori epidemie che l'uomo abbia mai dovuto affrontare.

14.07.2004 The proposed amendments to Sections 40 and 83 of the Zimbabwean Access to Information and Protection bill poses a greater danger to press freedom and democratic principles as they violate not only the Constitution of Zimbabwe, but also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights.

13.07.2004 The first PrepCom meeting of the Tunis World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) phase has completed by resolving that the Tunis summit should provide solutions on the implementation of the Geneva decisions by all stakeholders with particular attention to the challenges faced by least developed countries.

13.07.2004 Not able to attend the 2004 XV International AIDS Conference taking place in Bangkok, Thailand, from July 11 - 16 2004? No need to worry because Datelinehealth-Africa will provide you with reliable daily coverage from an African perspective.

12.07.2004 The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia held its eighth Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Andrews Motel in Lusaka, where a new, nine-member National Governing Council (NGC) was elected into office.

12.07.2004 The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia held its eighth Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Andrews Motel in Lusaka, where a new, nine-member National Governing Council (NGC) was elected into office.

12.07.2004 A delegation of press freedom organisations, along with Nigerian Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka met with Alpha Konare, Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union on 1 July, to discuss Africa’s need for legal and institutional framework for a conducive media environment on the continent.

09.07.2004 British Columbia plans to contract out the administration of its Medical Services Plan, among other public services. That means confidential information on citizens could be handed to U.S.-based multinationals - then accessed by the FBI under the USA Patriot Act. Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union explored that threat at a July 7 public forum in Vancouver, caught here on video.

09.07.2004 The International Press Centre, Lagos, Nigeria will on Monday, July 12, 2003 hold the Media Launch of the documentary film titled, We Speak for US. The documentary is part of a project designed to highlight the plight of the unheard voices and the under-reported in our society titled "We Speak for Us".

08.07.2004 Knjiga "Istraživačko novinarstvo" Inoslava Beškera, Orlande Obad i grupe autora, prvo sustavno i cjelovito djelo o toj vrsti novinarstva u nas, predstavljena je u Hrvatskom novinarskom društvu.
Bešker je rekao da je knjiga rezultat predavanja na istoimenoj katedri koja je na Studiju novinarstva zagrebačkog Fakulteta političkih znanosti osnovana prošle akademske godine

08.07.2004 Koncentracija medijskog vlasnistva i uticaj na slobodu i pluralizam medija u Srbiji - tema je rasprave koja ce se odrzati, 9. jula 2004. godine, s pocetkom u 9.30 casova, u Medija centru Beograd , a u okviru programa Mreze za profesionalizaciju medija jugoistocne Evrope (SEENPM).

08.07.2004 The Panos Global AIDS Programme (GAP) will be running a series of activities and producing resources for the media around the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, July 11th to 16th, for both media attending the Conference and for those who are not. The Panos GAP is a network of Panos offices from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe. It aims to support in-depth, balanced media reporting in the South and to provide a Southern perspective to media in the North.