UNICEF is looking for an Armenian – English speaking intern to research on digital access and online behavior of children and young people in Armenia

Current vacancies or internships with UNICEF Regional Office

UNICEF Regional Office for CEECIS and Headquarters in New York is looking for an Armenian – English speaking intern to research on digital access and online behavior of children and young people in Armenia for 3 months minimum starting on March 30 or earlier if available. The intern can work remotely but is expected to have weekly progress calls with a project manager in New York. The intern will spend 15 hours a week in researching, translating, and analyzing with weekly working sessions with the project team via skype/phone. 

Please send your curriculum vitae to unicef.youth.jobs@gmail.comand indicate "Digital Safety Intern/Armenia" in the subject line. Click here to download more information.

Source: http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/16422_19360.html

EVENTS: 4th Arab Youth Media Forum to Start on Tuesday

Manama-Feb 26-(BNA) The 4th Arab Youth Media Forum will open in Bahrain on Tuesday, under the patronage of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa.
The two-day pan-Arab event marks the celebration of Bahrain as Capital of Arab Press 2012.

Arab officials, diplomats and media figures will attend the official opening during which winners of the 2011 awards will be honoured.

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ARTICLES: Russian youth eschews the zombo box

With the Kremlin in control of most television channels and broadband penetration rising, TV is a rare sight in the lives of youngsters in Russia – it is commonly known as ‘zombo box’ and considered very old school, saysKonstantin Pinaev*

Instead, almost all media consumption is built exclusively around the Internet – with legal and illegal downloading, advanced systems of recommendations, ratings, discussions and endless streams of suggestions from social networks, blogs and microblogs.

YouTube has its own Russian superstars, some getting over 2 million views on every video they post. More and more shows  – like Minaev Live or GosDep – are now exclusively online, streaming live at certain times of the week, engaging with audiences via the likes of Twitter and Skype.

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TRAINING: Youth enlightened on social media (NAMIBIA)

The Namibia Business Innovation Center (NBIC), together with Rlabs Academy, is hosting its first session of three workshops aimed at training young people in social media and its applications at the NBIC Innovation Village. The workshop started on 13 February and will end on the 24th of this month.

Rlabs Academy’s mission is to teach young people how to use different social networks and to learn IT skills, thus allowing them to become trainers, consultants or software developers for organisations that want to create, enhance and develop their networking activities. Previous workshop graduates have gone on to become trainers or consultants for businesses, creating about 400 jobs in total.

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ARTICLES: Leveson inquiry urged to consider portrayal of young people (UK)

by Janaki Mahadevan Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Youth organisations have called for the Leveson inquiry to consider reforms to the editors' code of practice to encourage a fairer portrayal of young people in the press.

The 60 organisations led by the Youth Media Agency have signed up to a submission, which calls on the code to include age as a classification of discrimination and for it to include a clause that stipulates that journalists must exercise a duty of care to avoid negative generalisations about children and young people.

The submission also recommends that the Press Complaints Commission is made more accessible to children and young people and develops a child-friendly interface on its website.

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AWARDS: New Youth EFA Award (Nordic countries)

February 20, 2012

The European film Academy announced in Berlin the launch of a new Youth EFA Award organised in collaboration with six European film institutes including the Danish and Swedish film institutes. 

Three youth films nominated by EFA will be screened on June 10 to a young audience (10 - 13 year-old) in six European cities including Copenhagen and Stockholm. Straight after the screenings, the youth audience will cast its vote for the winning film and the awards will take place the same day in Erfurt, Germany. 

The other European partners in this initiative are EYE Film Institute Netherlands (Amsterdam,Neteherlands), Film Centre Serbia (Belgrade), Deutsche Kindermedienstiftung Goldener Spatz (Erfurt, Germany), and Museo Nazionale del Cinema (Turin, Italy).

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NEWS / TRAINING: Intermedia Pakistan launches training sessions on child reporting

ISLAMABAD: Journalists from different print and electronic news media outlets in Islamabad will attend a day long training session today (Tuesday) on professional reporting about children in Pakistan.

The training is being arranged by Intermedia Pakistan, a media development organisation, working with UNICEF to improve the extent and quality of public discourse about child rights and protection issues. The project website www.childreninmedia.pk has also been launched; it will feature updates, news and events related to this initiative and will also highlight news content developed by the trained journalists. The media training in Islamabad follows the development of a code of ethics on child rights and protection issues. The code was drafted after consultation with senior journalists, media managers and relevant civil society organisations. The formal endorsement of voluntary code of ethics was done through two events organised in Karachi and Lahore by major media organisations.

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NEWS / OPPORTUNITIES / FESTIVALS / PRINT: “My Dream Interview” Festival draws youth to newspapers

Newspapers from around the world are invited to participate in a new global journalism experience for youth organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) that results in young people interviewing entertainment stars or other public figures – and increased circulation for participating newspapers.

The "My Dream Interview" international youth reporter festival of success stories, supported by the Fundacion Acindar of Argentina, asks school teams of 11- to 15-year olds to choose a prominent person they would like to interview, then come up with the questions to ask.

The school teams submit their idea and questions to the participating newspaper, which chooses the best set of questions, helps the winning team conduct the interview, and publishes it. Newspapers can then enter the interview in a worldwide WAN-IFRA competition, with the winners presented at a ceremony at the IFRA Expo in Madrid in October. Winning interviews will be distributed globally by The Interview People, with all royalties going to winning schools.

Already on board are La Nacion of Argentina, The Monitor of Uganda, Polskapresse of Poland, The West Australian, and many others. The registration deadline is 29 February. WAN-IFRA is also providing a guide to newspapers to help teachers work with students on creating a journalistic interview

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EVENTS / FESTIVALS: Roger Moore to attend Muscat film festival

MUSCAT — Next month's Muscat International Film Festival (MIFF) has received a shot in the arm with the announcement that Sir Roger Moore, the legendary former James Bond star, will be visiting the city during the festival.
"It is a dream come true for us and it will be an honour to host this great Bond figure in Oman," Dr Khalid Al Zadjali, Chairman of the Oman Film Society (OFS) and MIFF, said, adding: "Sir Roger is not just a famous star, he is a man with a golden heart — as he is also a goodwill ambassador of the Unicef."

The 7^th MIFF, from March 24 to 31, the biggest so far, has attracted participation from more than 90 countries, including the US, the UK, France, Japan, China, India, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Egypt and Iran.

Moore, who portrayed British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985 and voted 'Best Bond' in the Academy Awards poll in 2008, will be honoured at the closing ceremony of the festival on March 31, coinciding with international celebrations of 007's 50^th anniversary.

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ARTICLES: Teaching Kids To Shape Media

By MAG CRUZ HATOL

February 12, 2012, 12:11am

MANILA, Philippines — A connection between a global internship program and media education may be remote. But trust young Filipinos in contriving an appropriate link.

That is what a small group of Adamson University students figured out when their AIESEC chapter linked with the National Council for Children’s Television in spreading the gospel of media literacy in five heavily populated public grade schools in Sampaloc recently. Just armed with grit and bravura, the group led by Gerard Teodosio, 19, whose AIESEC job it is to forge workable external relations, convinced the education bureau in staging the project.

The group not only signed up NCCT but also enlisted the assistance of two foreign exchange students, Joy Zhang, 19, of China and Rieska Febriana, a 20-year-old Indonesian. Together, they mingled with and cajoled kids in Grade 4 and 5 of General Licerio Geronimo, Benigno Aldana, Trinidad Tecson, Moises Salvador and Benito Legarda Elementary Schools, all in the university belt. It was no ordinary feat engaging hundreds of enthusiastic pupils out to make the most of their furlough on campus.

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