“No hate speech” online campaign launched against violent extremism and radicalization of youth

In June 2019, the Palestinian Centre for Media Research and Development (PCMRD) launched in Hebron the second pillar of the project “Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Media as an effective prevention of violent extremism tool in the hands of the youth”. The five weeks workshop included hands on training in media production.  The sessions for four groups of trainees with some thirty participants from the three universities in Hebron and other youth NGOs, corresponded to the needs expressed to build capacities in media campaigns and in applying new…

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Magnetic Tape Alert Project supported by IFAP

UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP) Working Group on Information Preservation launches an initiative to alert on the risk of losing access to audiovisual documents. Today’s knowledge of the linguistic and cultural diversity of humanity is widely based on magnetic tape recordings produced over the past 60 years. Magnetic audio and video tape formats are now obsolete, replay equipment in working condition is disappearing rapidly and the supply and service of spare parts is fading. As a result, the routine transfer of magnetic tape recordings is likely to cease around…

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