Any attack on the right to assembly has a direct impact on freedom of expression.
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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.”
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.
MISA Malawi calls for access to information in local councils
Most local councils are yet to embrace and mainstream Access to information law.
New license fees a threat to broadcasting in Malawi
These broadcasters already pay the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) license fees
Canada supports MISA Malawi project for accountability in local development funds
The project includes Investigative Journalism and Social Accountability trainings for 90 community broadcasters.
MISA Malawi calls for an end to threats on journalists by politicians, their supporters
Attacks on journalists can easily be construed as deliberate attempts to stifle media freedom