Number 246, September 2002
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Grassroots radios broadcast "Earth Radio" shows from the Johannesburg Earth Summit while communication rights organisations lobbied for commitment to the development of the Community Radio sector.
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the death of Palestinian
Palestinian freelance photographer Imad Abu Zahra died in Jenin on July 12 after being seriously wounded the previous day by Israeli army gunfire.
A workshop on media education was opened in Suva by Mrs Emi Rabukawaqa, Permanent Secretary for Education. The four-day workshop, which took place at Bergengren House, Pender St., Suva, is organised by Fiji Media Watch as part of a programme to foster media awareness and promote media education in Fiji. The title of the workshop was: “Media Education: a Vital and Necessary Task.”
About 25 people took part, mostly secondary school teachers from throughout the country.
Genevieve Roja, associate editor at AlterNet
Snuffleupagus, a character in the South African children’s programme Takalani Sesame, is being scripted as HIV positive as an early lesson in HIV/AIDS awareness.
Anil Netto
PENANG, MALAYSIA (PANOS) – When Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad dramatically announced his resignation on 22 June, only to retract it an hour later, many sceptical Malaysians turned to the Internet to try to make sense of the stunning news.
Acts 17 verse 20
While the apostle Paul waits in Athens for his companions to meet him to continue his travel to Rome, he gets upset by the idols that confront him.
Alan Stanley, ELDIS
The world of development research is changing. Outputs are increasingly diverse and globally distributed and the field is becoming ever less reliant on the big institutions and ever more dependent on its ability to build networks and communities of knowledge to drive forward the research agenda. Inevitably then development communication is also evolving and in this respect Eldis – the Electronic Development and Environment Information Service – reflects that process. The web portal, now in its seventh year of operation, has seen web fads and development agendas come and go but has evolved and adapted to remain a key place for raising awareness of new development ideas and experience.