Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2021 Nominee

Digital awareness program: Towards Digital Journalism


Description

“Towards Digital Journalism” program, implemented by the “E-Gov Development Center”, aims at eliminating the impact of misinformation and data pollution on digital services, bridging the digital divide in society, increasing digital literacy, and ensuring correct and timely delivery of information on digitalization, e-services and institutional innovations to the target audience.
Representatives of the media working on IT, e-government, e-services, digital solutions, as well as digital enthusiasts willing to increase their knowledge in this field to grow as a young blogger and contribute to public awareness attended at the program. “Towards Digital Journalism” program consisted of two stages. In the first stage, webinar training sessions took place on June 17-20 (the first) and September 29-October 2 (the second) covered the topics on "Latest trends in journalism", "Ethical rules in journalism and media law", "Electronic projects", "Digital banking", "E-government portals", "Startups", "Artificial Intelligence", "Blockchain Technologies" and others. In the second stage, a writing competition was held among the participants successfully completing the webinar training. In this section, research of real cases on selected topics and delivering information on digital services in the language of the reader was implemented. Participants who successfully completed the program were awarded a special certificate by the Center.

Project website

https://www.digital.gov.az/en


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C9. Media 2021
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Coverage
  • Azerbaijan

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2019

End date

Not set


Sustainability

“Towards Digital Journalism” program, aims at eliminating the impact of misinformation and data pollution on digital services, bridging the digital divide in society, increasing digital literacy, and ensuring correct and timely delivery of information on digitalization, e-services, and institutional innovations to the target audience.


WSIS values promotion

Encourage the media - print and broadcast as well as new media - to continue to play an important role in the Information Society.


Entity name

E-GOV Development Center (EGDC)

Entity country—type

Azerbaijan Government

Entity website

https://www.digital.gov.az/en