Media and Issues

A research lab at Waterford Institute of Technology is playing a leading role in a new Third World initiative involving millions of euro in government aid and corporate donations, which seeks to leverage technology development processes to improve the lives of thousands of Indian communities. The Information Systems, Organisations and Learning Research Centre (ISOL) at the Waterford Institute of...

An Indian association of women journalists will work with Internews Network to offer training, roundtables and trips aimed at improving coverage of HIV and AIDS. Internews said it will collaborate for the next six months with the Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) on a project to improve HIV/AIDS reporting among women journalists. The Kaiser Family Foundation’s Project for International Health...

The European Union is sponsoring a new project aimed at improving news coverage of HIV and AIDS in India. The U.K.-based Thomson Foundation is organizing the project, set to begin in the first half of 2005. The new project offers training to improve the skills of print, radio and television journalists, while raising the quality of their coverage of critical issues. Thomson says its trainers will...

The Indian Express group has initiated the ‘Black Ink on your Nail’ campaign to motivate and mobilise today’s youth to cast their vote. This two month long mammoth campaign will run across nine cities in India. The campaign is aimed at educating youngsters about their right to choose their representative and the processes involved during elections. It will attempt to engage them in a discussion...

Contact info for all the journalists who cover development in Karnataka, a state in India, will soon be available in a handy reference. The bilingual directory is intended to help the journalists and development organizations in the region work together more closely. Communication for Development and Learning (CDL), based in the city of Bangalore, is compiling the directory. CDL is devoted to...

COPENHAGEN, Oct 31 (AlertNet) - Humanitarian specialists and journalists attending a meeting in Denmark last week challenged the widely-held view that media attention is the strongest factor in determining levels of aid, while technology is making more information available faster. Representatives of humanitarian agencies, often critical of the mainstream news agenda for ignoring crises, and...