Reporting on Technology & Digitalization
We look forward to your participation and we hope that these sessions will encourage you to do deep-dives into the area.
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Reporting on COVID-19 in the Caribbean
The Media Institute of the Caribbean is pleased to announce that we are continuing coverage of Covid in the Caribbean via our partnership with the UNESCO Cluster Office of the Caribbean, Headquartered in Jamaica. We are launching our three-part Webinar Series 'Reporting on Covid in the Caribbean'.
This comes on the heels of our soon to be published Covid in the Caribbean page on www.cijn.org. A series of news stories and investigative reports from the Caribbean region on the Covid pandemic will be posted on this site.
As we continue to encourage our media practitioners to cover the pandemic in a way that highlights the significant issues, we encourage you to register for our Reporting on Covid Webinar Series. Attached is the flyer with all the registration links and further details.
Bios and other relevant information will be posted on our website www.mediainstituteofthecaribbean.com and you can go there for details. Some of the best experts on this subject area will be our presenters for the series.
We look forward to your participation and we hope that these sessions will encourage you to do deep-dives into the area.
webinar: INternational DAy for universal access to information
An initiative of the UNESCO Cluster Office of the Caribbean. #AccessToInfo #RightToKnow
Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019. The day had been proclaimed by the UNESCO General Conference in 2015, following the adoption of the 38 C/Resolution 57 declaring 28 September of every year as International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI).
IDUAI 2020 will be focus on to the right to information in times of crisis and on the advantages of having constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for public access to information to save lives, build trust and help the formulation of sustainable policies through and beyond the COVID-19 crisis.
UNESCO and its intergovernmental programs - the International Programme for Development of Communication and the Information for All Programmes - provide a platform and frame for all the stakeholders to participate in international discussions on policy and guidelines in the area of access to information. Both programs also enable positive environment for ATI to flourish through the development of projects aimed to strengthen open science, multilingualism, ICTs for disabled and marginalized, and media and information literacy.
This initiative of the Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC) will seek to review the current status of Access To Information and Freedom of Information models in the Caribbean region, lack of proper legislation and repercussions of such, as well as examine plausible solutions to the solving the issue.
Now more than ever, the Covid pandemic has defined the necessity for access to information at a time when the sustainability of nations, the well-being of people and the focus on humanity requires cooperation, urgent attention and truth.
