Number 244, May 2002
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Nic Maclellan at the recent WACC workshop in Fijji on the information and communciation rights of refugees and displace people.
The information and communication rights of refugees and displaced people in the Pacific region was the theme of a workshop held in Nadi, Fiji, from May 7-9, 2002. The workshop brought together communicators representing the media and the ecumenical community from Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia.
Garrett French
Open-source (free) software is nothing new to the back end of business computing – chances are good your enterprise runs Linux servers that send email, control print jobs, and serve your company website internally and to customers. These non-proprietary software not only save money but keep hackers at bay. Ask your tech folk what you’re running, and, more importantly, why.
Dear Sir,
We write to ask your government to consider the issue of the right to information and communication for refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people.
Glen Tarman, OneWorld
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging businesses, governments and nongovernmental organizations to create more opportunities that will enable disadvantaged groups around the world to exploit new communications technologies.
www.digitalopportunity.org launch coincided with World Telecommunications Day.
New Delhi, India — OneWorld (www.oneworld.net), the online sustainable development and human rights network, and the Benton Foundation (www.benton.org), the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works to realize the social benefits of communications technology, announce the launch of Digital Opportunity Channel, an online community focusing on the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) for sustainable development.
From former WACC scholar Rev Dr John Joshva Raja, Department of Communication, United Theological College, Bangalore, India.
Being one of the members of Asia Region World Association for Christian Communication (ARWACC), the Department of Communication in the United Theological College is actively engaged in providing practical and theoretical training in communication. During 2001-2002 the students in this department were involved in a variety of activities. ARWACC organised its regional consultation in the college with the focus on “Information Society and Alternative Media” for the NGOs, Churches and theological institutions. With the help of NCCI, CSI, SATHRI and ARWACC, a seminar on “The Perceptions of Islam in the Media” was organised by the department for the journalists in Bangalore.
Excerpts from the report by Gargi Sen, of the Magic Lantern Foundation, India, on her experiences as a TAP scholar.
I received a TAP scholarship for the year 200-2001 to pursue a Masters degree at the Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester. The Scholarship came at an opportune moment, both for my organisation Magic Lantern Foundation (MLF) and for me personally.
Greg Wonsey, Assistant Editor, The News Insider
Early in the autumn of 1999, I was part of a group of friends that started emailing each other news articles that seemed to shed a particularly helpful light on world developments. Some of us were professional journalists, some computer geeks with a lot of online experience, while others were simply interested in keeping in touch with world politics.