Investigative reporters in Brazil win award for uncovering US$ 400 million fraud


Around 10 million people live in Brazil's south-eastern state of Parana.

26.10.2011
After having scrutinized extensive mismanagement of public funds, a team of Brazilian journalists won this year's Global Shining Light Award at Kiev's Global Investigative Journalists Conference

Seminar on human rights in Bahrain


Abdulhadi al-Khawaja with UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Margaret Sekaggya. Photo: Front Line

 

26.09.2011
IMS and the Danish Institute for International Studies invite you to a seminar on the human rights situation in Bahrain

Covering the Arab Spring: A conference on the media's role in the protests


25 January, the day the protests erupted in Egypt. Photo: Rasmus Steen/IMS

05.08.2011
During the past months of popular protests in the Middle East, the media has often been at the centre of attention. The conference "Covering the Arab Spring" looks at its instrumental and integral role in the uprisings

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

Programme - Conference on mobile phones in Africa-Nov09

10.11.2009

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