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State-Sanctioned Freedom of Expression: Russia a...
Guest post by Ariana Szepesi-ColmenaresRussia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has just returned from a three-day trip to Latin America, where he met with government officials from Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Colombia. This tour comes only a month after the visit of Sergei Shoigu, Russia... |
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Independent Media in Zimbabwe: One Step Forward,...
Just when a glimmer of hope for some space for independent journalism in at least one authoritarian country had appeared – bam! CIMA featured the Zimbabwean online business news site, The Source, in a paper last year about how business and economic journalism can provide an avenue into high-qualit... |
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Donor Support to Media Development: Defining the...
CIMA Launches Media Development Support Donor SurveyProject by Tara Susman-Peña and Tom Lansner CIMA is launching a Media Development Support Donor Survey to identify donor priorities and trends and to help paint a broad picture of the support landscape. CIMA will publish a series of summaries of d... |
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The Media is Silenced in Venezuela and Ecuador
Guest post by Ariana Szepesi-ColmenaresIn Ecuador, 254 arbitrary sanctions were made against the press in 2014: that’s a 46 percent increase since 2013, according to data produced by the Ecuadoran organization Fundamedios. For January and February 2015 alone, 46 new direct attacks have challeng... |
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The Statistical Commission Speaks: First Indicat...
Next week, from March 23rd through the 27th, the UN General Assembly will for the first time directly discuss the specifics of the 17 proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 associated ‘targets’ – and the multiple yet-to-be-assigned factual ‘indicators’ by which the... |
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Will Statisticians Get the Last Word on the UN...
There are three things you need to know about the negotiations over the United Nations’ next set of global development goals, which will be adopted by world leaders at the General Assembly this September and remain in effect for the next 15 years: Almost everybody agrees that the proposed 17 Susta... |
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Lear...
March 13 is Digital Learning Day, which aims to encourage educators and leaders to “actively spread innovative practices and ensure that all youth have access to high-quality digital learning opportunities no matter where they live.” While this grassroots effort is very much focused on the Ameri... |
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All Cybersecurity All the Time, Part II
As noted in an earlier blog post, cyber surveillance, cyber security, cyber threats, cyber everything has become the flavor of the month in the Washington think tank circuit lately. This week’s entry into the field was provided by the Brookings Institution at a book launch and discussion Wednesday... |
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What is media development? Lessons learned from ...
This week, CIMA hosted a panel of experts from around the media development community to engage in a debate about where the field is headed. At CIMA, we’ve organized our thinking on media development into four interconnected issue areas that reflect macro concepts in the field: effectiveness, sust... |
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International Women’s Day 2015: A Need for Mor...
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) announced the opening of the Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists earlier this week, which will grant an annual total of $230,000 for projects that will “lead to the exposure of under-reported stories, strengthen story-telling skills,... |