Climate change journalism in Azerbaijan


Workshop participants visit a wind power plant  40 miles north of Baku. Photo: Gulnara Akhundova, IMS

27.11.2009

Climate change science and windmills was on the agenda, as 15 journalists came together for a climate change workshop in Baku in the lead-up to the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen in

Supporting media during global conference on climate change in Copenhagen


25.11.2009

In connection with the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, IMS is supporting media practitioners participating the meeting in collaboration with "Earth Journalism Awards "and "The Climate Change Media Partnership"

Service providers use cell phones to reach vast markets in rural Africa


Herman Kojo Chinery-Hesse, the founder of Black Star Line Internet trading system in Ghana and Stine Lund, programme coordinator of "Wired Mothers" in zanzibar. Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS

25.11.2009

Mobile phones offering multiple services have a bright future in Africa, as new mobile technologies bypass conventional ways of trading, lending money  and other services. "Africa is taking the lead", said one of the speakers optimistically at a conference organised jointly by IMS and The Society for Third World Issues, a technological network under the Danish Association of Engineers

Turkey a future central player in Middle East


Conference on Turkey and the Middle East, hosted at the Danish Cultural Institute in Damascus, co-funded by IMS. Photo: Lis Jespersen/IMS

23.11.2009

A resurgent Turkey is rewriting the rules of the power game in the Middle East, emerging as a new, important mediator. Those were some of the opinions voiced in a high profile meeting in Damascus earlier this month about Turkey and the Middle East

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