MISA conveys its condolences to the families and people of Mozambique following the loss of lives in the post-election conflict engulfing the country to date. As a country, Mozambique and its people sacrificed their national and personal prosperity by hosting several liberation movements until the entire southern African region was free.
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Content Production and Practices in the Digital Age: Threats, Risks, and Opportunities
The digital age has transformed the content production landscape, making creating, distributing, and accessing information easier than ever. While this shift has ushered in unprecedented opportunities for innovation and inclusion, it has also introduced significant threats and risks that require collective effort to address.
Bottom-up approach imperative for AI development in Africa
Speaking on the impact of AI on the media and the quest to position the media as a trusted source of verified news and information, Dr Moyo said the African Union’s Agenda 2063 locates the media as one of the strategic stakeholders in achieving the long-term objectives.
Collaborations key to realisation of UN Plan of Action on safety of journalists
“Raising awareness is a crucial advocacy intervention as only through awareness are we likely to know the full extent of media violations and how deep the issue of impunity is.”
Standing together in the fight against breast cancer
This year’s theme, No one should face breast cancer alone, speaks to the support and solidarity that women, including female journalists, need in fighting and surviving breast cancer.
Reflections on the Spaces of Solidarity (SoS) Conference Agenda
The strides we have made during our first three years have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the following years.
MISA Regional Chairperson`s opening remarks at the 2024 Spaces of Solidarity
We need to devise robust pushback strategies and responses in view of the rapidly shrinking civic space we have witnessed over the past few years. Stringent NGO laws have been enacted across the region, which require our collective attention and strategic responses to halt the shrinking and erosion of democratic civic space.
Journalist Simba Rushwaya was a jolly good fellow
He nonchalantly mentioned his life-threatening condition as if it was water off a duck’s back. For him, it was as if he was saying: So, what? Life must go on. Journalism must go on.
A study of technology facilitated gender-based violence in Southern Africa (Now Available!!!)
Globally, the statistics are staggering. It is reported that at least 73% of women journalists say they have been victims of TFGBV.
Open Letter to the AU Heads of State and Government on the Endorsed Continental AI Strategy and African Digital Compact
We urge the AUC Chairperson, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, to stress the crucial importance of member states implementing the AUC Data Policy Framework. Data is
central to achieving the vision of the Digital Compact and should be governed in a manner that protects Africans’ fundamental rights and freedoms.