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- New opportunities for environmental and climate change journalism in China, report Feb.2010
- Young reporters in Burkina Faso need role models
- Building Partnerships for media support - Yes we can!
- Freedom of Expression in Honduras - Press Statement, Spanish version
- Report, International Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression Mission to Honduras, January 2010
- Honduras on a path to 'media war'
- Haiti Map 24 January 2009
- Vacancy: Deputy Director for Finance and Administration
- Vacancy: Programme Officer for Media and Democracy Unit
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- Earth Journalism Awards Ceremony, 14 December 2009
- Service providers use cell phones to reach vast markets in rural Africa
- Presentation by Stine Lund, Wired Mothers, "Mobiles in Africa", 13 Nov.2009
- Presentation by Magnus Jerkfelt, Flexenclosure, "Mobiles in Africa", 13 Nov.2009
- Presentation by Thomas Krag, Refugees United, Denmark, "Mobiles in Africa", 13 Nov 2009
- Knud Erik Skouby, Professor, University of Aalborg, Denmark, "Mobiles in Africa", 13 Nov.2009
- Presentation John West, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, "Mobiles in Africa", 13 Nov.2009
- Programme - Conference on mobile phones in Africa-Nov09
- Mobile phones in Africa - Conference, 13 November
- International Partnership Meeting in Copenhagen, September 2009
- Taking stock of joint international media partnerships
- Crisis feeding off polarized media in Honduras
- Media in Pakistan: Between radicalisation and democratisation in an unfolding conflict, 2009
- Media in Pakistan, report in URDU
- Earth Journalism Award 2009 RUSSIAN
- Earth Journalism Award 2009 ENGLISH
- Climate change journalism to be awarded
- IMS statues, latest revision November 2009
- Reporting to reduce conflict
- Congolese journalists address climate of mistrust with police and military
- Taleban rule the radio waves in Swat
- Caucasus media meet to discuss Georgia conflict
- Safety Training for Journalists in North-Eastern Congo
- Conference report 2008
- Outcome of IMS conference published
- Season's Greetings from IMS!
- Learning from history in Rwanda
- Great Lakes media conference pass resolution for press freedom
- Conflict Sensitive Journalism, Rwanda special edition handbook, 2008
- Mention about Jesper Højberg by Per Østerlund, Danicom (in Danish)
- Reception: IMS director turns 50
- Press release by Nairobiklubben 06-11-2008
- Speech by Jesper Højberg in connection with IMS being awarded Nairobiprisen 2008
- IMS awarded with the Nairobi Prize 2008
- Participants call IMS conference 2008 an eye-opener
- Opportunities and threats for press freedom and democratization
- Putting new media to the test
- How can the new network community benefit freedom of speech?
- Programme IMS Conference 2008
- Conference announcement
- Georgian media suffer under war conditions
- Community radios in Pakistan may curb extremism
- Radio Maendeleo and the regional peace process in Eastern Congo
- Public broadcast tv - Struggling to regain their audiences
- Journalist syndicated and associations - Advocated of press freedom
- Copenhagen film festival 2007 - arab footprints at CPH:DOX 2007
- Twinning - partnerships acrooss borders
- Press Freedom Post-conflict, a cause of instability or foundation of democratic development? IMS conference 2007
- Strengthening Liberia's media, 2007
- The Iraqi press: The heritage of the past and the challenges of the future, 2006
- Support to Media During Elections; Coaching manual, 2006
- Voices of War, 2006
- Media Development in Iraq - and overview of international support 2003-2005
- Report from mission to Colombia, 2005
- Rwanda Mission Report, 2005
- Monitoring the coverage of the October 2004 legislative and presidential elections in Tunisia
- Friends or foes? IMS media conference, 2004
- Analysis of Professionalism in Rwandan Media, 2004
- Analysis of Professionalism in Rwandan Media, French, 2004
- Media and Elections Handbook 2004
- An analysis of Media Coverage of the First Multiparty Legislative elections after the Independence of Rwanda, 2003
- Democratic Republic of Congo Media Environment assessment Report, 2003
- Radio Maendeleo and the regional peace process in Eastern Congo, 2003
- How to improve conflict reporting, 2003
- A new voice in the Middle Ease: A provisional needs assessment for the Iraqi media, 2003
- Media Development in Post-war Iraq Report, 2003
- Conflict sensitive journalism, 2003
- Pour un journalisme sensible aux conflicts, (francais) 2004
- IMS assessment mission: The Rwanda media experience from the genocide, 2003
- Report on Training Programme for Journalists, Sierre Leone, 2002
- Report of the IMS conference on Emergency Assistance to Media, 2002
- Reporting the TRC, October 2002
Opportunities and threats for press freedom and democratization
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On 15-16 September 2008, IMS hosted a conference in Copenhagen on ICTs and networked communications environments to cast a critical eye on the opportunities and threats for press freedom and democratization with the new communications tools
With support from OSi, Nokia and Telia, IMS introduced a new concept for conferences introducing a working laboratory on the first day. During this time, the participants were tasked with testing new tools for communication.
Four different techniques were presented including: Setting up of pirate radio in a shopping mall; e-blogging on the internet; real time streaming on the internet site Bambuser.com of footage recorded and transmitted by cell phone; using a newly developed device, the "media sprinkler" to mass-disseminate sms messages to cell phones and, finally, using Jaiku to disseminate information via cell phone.
The practical experiences of experimenting with the new tools served as food for thought and fed into the panel debates on the second day of the conference. Three panels were presented dealing with these questions in the following order:
Panel One - "Does the networked communications environment provide for more restrictive and intrusive governance, or does it enhance democracy?"
Panel Three - "The way in which media operates is changing. What are the effects of this on the style and delivery of media content and the media structure and institutions that provide them"?
Panel Two - " How does the networked communications environment increase the capacity of the civil society organisations to achieve positive social change"?
Find the programme of the conference here: http://www.i-m-s.dk/?q=node/377
See the photos from the first day of the conference, in which participants were tasked with testing new modes of communication:
http://www.i-m-s.dk/?q=node/399
Read and contribute to the ongoing discussions of the themes of the conference on the wiki:
Follow the presentations and discussions on the second day, which was streamed in real time through www.bambuser.com: