Communicating for Empowerment

• Training Journ­al­ists

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  Training radio reporters to make needs-based pro­grammes on HIV and AIDS in Malawi.

• Enga­ging the Community

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  Pakistani chil­dren affected by the 2005 earth­quake use pho­to­graphy to doc­u­ment needs, in Bagh, Azad Kashmir.

• Util­izing Mobile Technology

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  Har­nessing the increasing capa­city of mobile tech­no­logy. Sudanese IDP takes a break from brick making in El Fasher.

• Facil­it­ating Cit­izen Journalism

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  Cit­izen journ­al­ists use flip cam­eras to doc­u­ment public protests in Islamabad, Pakistan

• Pro­moting Com­mu­nic­a­tion Resilience

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  Recording Herati famers needs to com­mu­nicate to Kabul based headquar­ters in Herat, Afghanistan.

• Man­euv­ering Social Media

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  Sudanese youth in El Fasher, Sudan.

• Doc­u­menting Social Movements

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  ICTs are important chan­nels of expres­sion where people feel the right to be heard. iMedia sup­ports voice and empower­ment in wide range of countries.

• Sup­porting Grass­roots Broadcasters

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  Indian NGO SEWA staff using video to com­mu­nicate women’s needs in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

iMedia Asso­ci­ates is a UK-based inter­na­tional media devel­op­ment and com­mu­nic­a­tions company.

We pro­mote innov­ative ways of working with rap­idly con­ver­ging media to tackle com­mu­nic­a­tions chal­lenges presented by con­flict, fra­gile gov­ernance and poverty.

iMedia delivers high quality advisory, research and ana­lysis using cut­ting edge multi-media plat­forms to engage with cli­ents and audi­ences. Through local engage­ment and long-term pro­ject sup­port, we aim to enhance com­mu­nic­a­tions resi­li­ence and create lasting social change in con­flict and devel­op­ment environments.

iMedia recently cohosted an event to show­case emer­ging case studies of how mobile is being used as a media plat­form and devel­op­ment com­mu­nic­a­tion tool, in part­ner­ship with C4D Net­work and the GSMA. Read more…