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CATIA: Report on the impact of project components on media coverage of ICTS in Africa
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Communicating the Arts: Monitoring arts coverage in South Africa's mass media, in partnership with the Media Monitoring Project
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Previous Projects
Community ICT access initiatives: Potential strategic interventions
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CATIA: TCO comparison between new and refurbished PCs in delivering ICTs to Africa
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itrainonline: module development: "An introduction to basic research methods", developed for the Association for Progressive Communications

South African Media Audit - HIV/AIDS: Wide-ranging communications audit conducted for the Panos Institute and John Hopkins University
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Highway Africa: Facilitating the participation of Civil Society Organisations on behalf of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
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CATIA: Programme engagement with media on ICT Policy


Background:

The Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa (CATIA) programme has nine components which are working with a range of stakeholders, including with media, to achieve their objectives. Each component has a different emphasis and approach to engagement with media.

Project Synopsis:

 Open Research has been commissioned to develop a report that will be shared at the upcoming Highway Africa 2005 conference in Grahamstown. The purpose of the report is to look at how the CATIA programme is engaging with media in Africa (both community and commercial), and the lessons being learned from this engagement. The emphasis will be on the engagement of media in ICT policy and regulatory processes.

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