This is the second part of multi disciplinary project that will cover several issues and activities related to Media and Information Literacy in Tunisia. The first part, published a month ago, introduced our project, outlined a preliminary Plan of Action to implement it in the Tunisian reality and unveiled a first version of an English-Arabic […]
Tunisian Media and Information Literacy Project (English-Arabic glosary)
Tunisian Arabic glossary of Media and Information Literacy terms as translated from American English. Link: https://milunesco.unaoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018Tunisian-MIL-Project-Part-1c.pdfAuthor: Mourad Teyed, Ali MiladiSource: Maghred Media Forum
SKILL’Z
SKILL’Z est une start up tunisienne créée en décembre 2015. Ce sont les premiers ateliers à Tunis qui permettent aux enfants de devenir les inventeurs de leurs propres jeux et ce à partir de 8 ans. Ils apprennent à programmer des jeux vidéos, des histoires interactives, des robots et des objets avec la méthode SKILL’Z […]
هل لديك المعرفة الكافية عن الاعلام؟ (Are you Media Savvy?)
أداة تعليمية رقمية لنشر الوعي الاعلامي ومهارات التفكير الناقد A digital toolkit promoting media awareness and critical thinking skills La promotion de la sensibilisation aux médias et de la pensée critique In Arabic, English and French. Link: https://www.edumedia.tn/Author: Swedish Radio Media Development Office, SR MDO, CAPJC, Ministry of Education of Tunisia,Source: Swedish Radio Media Development […]
The role of social media and usergenerated content in post-conflict peacebuilding
This paper investigates existing examples and literature to the use of social media and user-generated content in post-conflict peacebuilding. First it provides an overview of general literature on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in peacebuilding. Secondly it investigates the concepts of user-generated content (UGC) and social media and provides examples from the […]
UNESCO’s IPDC supports reporting diversity in Arab region (2011)
UNESCO has 193 Member States and seven Associate Member States. It is governed by the General Conference and the Executive Board. The Secretariat, headed by the Director-General, implements the decisions of these two bodies. Within the framework of UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), a three-day workshop on Reporting Diversity Curricula Development […]
Tunisian Media’s Quantum Leap to the Next Level?
One day a dissident blogger jailed for his activism against a repressive regime, the next a cabinet minister in Tunisia’s interim government whose days may be numbered. It came as a shock to Slim Amemou, the 33-year-old whose battle for online freedom of expression in a country with none to speak of, until former dictator […]