Full Coverage: Communication

30.03.2005 The Videoletters project of the Dutch film directors Catharine Rejger and Eric Van Den Broek, bearing witness of the wish of friends divided by war to meet again, was presented in Belgrade.

28.03.2005 The first PYAF! Fair of Youth Culture in Bosnia and Herzegovina was held in Prijedor, March 25-26. The Fair was organized by Youth Partnership Programme – POP B&H and the Manifest Urban Initiative from Prijedor.

23.03.2005 The “Networking Fair” was organized in Tuzla on March 18, under the auspices of a Project of the Referent Group Tuzla, “NGO Sector Development through Support to the Establishment of Functional NGO Networks in B&H”, supported by the European Commision Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

23.03.2005 Many Americans believe that foreign aid is money wasted, but a new book demonstrates that global health interventions--many of them funded (indirectly) by U.S. taxpayers--often are highly successful, and have saved millions of lives over the past 50 years.

21.03.2005 In addition to the slew of emotionally compelling and politically relevant documentaries featured at Robert Redford's annual film festival in Utah, this year's forum included various workshops and panel discussions tackling topics including "Docs, Blogs, and the Changing Face of Politics of America" and questions like "Do artists contribute to social transformation in a significant way?"

17.03.2005 Yahoo Inc. is going to start web blogging and social-network service soon, allowing people to build virtual social contacts. The free tool will integrate with other yahoo mail, instant messenger, photos, search and other services.

16.03.2005 More than 100 beloved children's characters, from Big Bird to Barney, appear in a new music video for the song "We Are Family," promoting themes of tolerance and diversity. Distribution of the video and other educational materials to 60,000 schools across the U.S. began last week.

08.03.2005 Whenever news emerges that paints the U.S. or its allies in a negative light, they roll out the "Unfortunate Incident Protocol," a predictable series of steps to deflect the bad press and assign blame elsewhere, according to clinical psychologist and Christian author Teresa Whitehurst. It's already been launched in the case of the Italian journalist killed by U.S. soldiers under questionable circumstances last Friday.

07.03.2005 World Bank in its report titled “Financing information and communication infrastructure needs in the developing world: public and private roles” notes that the private sector has invested over $210 billion in telecommunications capacity in developing countries over the last ten years and rapid echnological expansion over the past decade has resulted in as many as one half of the world’s households having a fixed telephone line, and as much as 77 percent of the World’s population is under the signal footprint of a mobile phone provider.

03.03.2005 Centre for New Media kuda.org and AKO – Alternative Cultural Organization from Novi Sad open a public competition for short feature films, animation, web-sites and photographs on the subject of Mapping of Right-Wing Extremism – Fighting for What’s Left. The deadline for applications is April 8, 2005.

02.03.2005 Les procès du 2 mars 2005 de Fikret Baskaya et de Ragip Zarakolu symbolisent la persistance des problèmes liés à la liberté d'expression en Turquie
PEN International, l'UIE, ainsi que de nombreuses autres ONG internationales comme Amnesty international ou Human Rights Watch, sont présentes en Turquie afin d'assister aux procès de l'éditeur Ragip Zarakolu et de l'écrivain Fikret Baskaya. Les deux procès ont lieu le 2 mars 2005 respectivement à Istanbul et à Ankara.