Open Society Foundations/Durham University Scholarships
The Open Society Foundations and Durham University are offering outstanding students from Afghanistan, Indonesia, Nepal, and Palestine an opportunity to study in the United Kingdom.
View ArticleMapping Digital Media: Spain
Since 2005, Spain has designed and implemented aggressive digitization policies that secured the switchoff of analog television in 2010, and developed the digital terrestrial television (DTT) market to...
View ArticleWhat Is Happening to Our Media?
Professionally produced journalism has long been the most widely used independent source of information about public affairs for citizens in most democracies, but its ability to play this role in the...
View ArticleFardin Waezi
Year2012LocationAfghanistanAmount$3,500Term6 monthsGrantee URLhttp://thruafghaneyes.blogspot.com/Fardin Waezi will explore themes that have emerged from his extensive ten-year body of work documenting...
View ArticleOpen Society Foundations/University of Warwick Scholarships
The Open Society Foundations and the University of Warwick are offering outstanding students from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Mongolia an opportunity to study at the University of Warwick (UK).
View Article2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
The most important event in the international intellectual property (IP) reform calendar. The theme of this year’s Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest is “Setting the Positive Agenda in Motion.”
View ArticlePluralism and Freedom of the Media in Europe
Drawing on the Mapping Digital Media research into digitization and new media, a new report from the Open Society Media Program and a paper in conjunction with Access Info discuss media pluralism in...
View ArticleProtecting Media Pluralism In Europe
Media pluralism is about the presence of a range of voices and perspectives in media outlets. It is vital if media are to play their democratic role. How then can we protect it?
View ArticleGlobal Supplementary Grant
The Global Supplementary Grant Program offers support to doctoral students from select countries in Southeastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, the Middle East/North Africa, and South Asia.
View ArticlePoor Record, Positive Solutions: Advancing Press Freedom in Turkey
Carnegie Europe, in cooperation with the Open Society Foundation–Turkey, will host an event to mark the launch of Press Freedom in Turkey, a new paper by Marc Pierini.
View ArticleProtecting Media Pluralism in Europe: Signs of Progress
A new report sets out what must be done to protect media pluralism in the European Union.
View ArticleJustice Eludes Journalists in Pakistan
In one of the world’s most deadly countries for journalists, it’s not a lack of legal procedures but a lack of political will that is hindering the investigation and prosecution of threats to reporters.
View ArticleBurma in Transition
Despite positive developments in Burma, the country remains mired in conflict. These photographs present a snapshot of life in Burma today, highlighting the causes for hope and progress and the immense...
View ArticleNeither Here Nor There: Turkmenistan’s Digital Doldrums
This study, commissioned by the Open Society Foundations, highlights the policies and practices that have left Turkmenistan torn between its desire to join the worldwide web and its compulsion to...
View ArticleTurkmenistan Faces UN Challenge over Death of Human Rights Activist
Turkmenistan’s authoritarian state is being called to account before the UN Human Rights Committee over the death in police custody seven years ago of human rights activist Ogulsapar Muradova.
View ArticleТуркменистану предстоит рассмотрение в ООН по делу о смерти правозащитницы
Авторитарные власти Туркменистана привлекаются к ответственности перед Комитетом по правам человека в Женеве за смерть во время содержания под стражей в милиции активной правозащитницы погибшей семь...
View ArticleCase Watch: Europe's Broad View on Acceptable Limits to Free Speech
A ruling from the European Court of Human Rights fails to require government precision in restricting supposedly dangerous anti-democratic speech.
View ArticleMapping Digital Media: Estonia
Estonia blazed a trail, in terms of digitization, by completing digital switch-over of television in 2010, five years ahead of the originally envisaged target of 2015.
View ArticleMapping Digital Media: Kazakhstan
In Kazakhstan, there has been a move in the direction of restricting press freedom while at the same time, digitization offers a freer and more diverse space for news and public debate.
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