Article Archive for February 2012
March 1st: citizens rally for a European constitutional convention
On March 1st, the Permanent Forum of Civil Society invite all interested citizens to participate to a forum aiming at formulating political proposals to be presented to the European Parliament and urging this parliament to demand …
Pour les données publiques européennes, les journalistes belges retournent à l’école
A training day on European open data and their use by media will take place next tuesday (February 28), on the Representation of European Commission in Belgium’s initiative. This project aims at helping journalists to …
LN fm: Lively Europe in streaming!">LN fm: Lively Europe in streaming!
LN fm, the new local European radio led by students and lecturers from three Belgian universities/schools (the Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales — IHECS, the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and the Institut des Arts de Diffusion-IAD), …
CAP: Communicating Agricultural Policy">CAP: Communicating Agricultural Policy
Agricultural and Rural Convention (ARC 2020) joining the dots through transnational exchanges
Towards a pan-European list for next Euro-elections!
On March 14, Members of the European Parliament will vote on a proposal establishing new voting rules for their election by European citizens. Among other improvements, it would allow citizens to vote for a transnational list of MEPs …
Fundación para el Periodismo: ‘stimulate a better journalism practice’
The Fundación para el Periodismo(Bolivian Foundation for Journalism) was founded in 2008, by the Asociación de Periodistas de la Paz — APLP (Association of Journalists of La Paz) and the Asociación Nacional de la Prensa – ANP (National Press …
13 February proclaimed World Radio Day
We celebrate today the first World Radio Day. Proposed by the Spanish Radio Academy and proclaimed by the UNESCO, this new initiative aims at ’ improving international cooperation among radio broadcasters and encourage decision-makers to …
TV channel: Europe in all its States!">New TV channel: Europe in all its States!
On January 26, the Wallonie-Brussels (Belgium)’ audiovisual authority (‘Conseil supérieur de l’Audiovisuel’- CSA) allowed a new TV channel focused on Europe. Europe TV aims at covering “Europe in all its States” and “strenghten the European citizenship …
Social and civic media: from mediatisation to mediation
What we generally do when we speak about media is analyse their role as government’s supporter/government’s tool, or on the contrary, as a full force of opposition. In each case, media and political players both monopolise …
Follow up: the European Initiative for Media Pluralism
On January 26, the European Commission presented its new website for the implementation of European Citizen Initiatives. Two months before the launching of first initiatives, this ‘warming up Conférence’ aimed at introducing registering process and explaining how …
Focus on Ushahidi: Kenya’s witness eye
The crowd voicing platform Ushahidi was founded three years ago in Kenya. One of the aims of this article is to track the position this website takes in the country. Furthermore we want to explore …
