Sector Opportunities

The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) invite youth from around the world to submit original and creative videos focusing on the PLURAL+ theme of migration, diversity and social inclusion. In a world often characterized by intolerance, and cultural and religious divisions, it ...
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Corinne Podger, journalism trainer with BBC Media Action, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, WAN-IFRA and others, has been invited to write a story for Digital Content Next about the impact of the Facebook algorithm change earlier this year on Facebook Pages run by media development agencies. If your media development agency has ...
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IOM, the UN Migration Agency, launches call for submissions to the 2018 Global Migration Film Festival as part of the UN Together campaign to promote diversity worldwide. The call is for is submissions of Full-Length Feature and Short Films, in all genres: fiction, documentary, animation, etc. Submissions will be accepted until 21 June. To merit consideration ...
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The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), led by Internews’ Earth Journalism Network and the Stanley Foundation this year, is pleased to announce an expanded Fellowship program for journalists. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to attend two major climate change summits taking place in 2018: the Global Climate Action Summit ...
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The WeOwnTV Filmmaker Fellowship is a film fund and professional development program supporting the production of independent documentaries directed by West African filmmakers. The goal of the program is to help amplify and support important voices within the West African indigenous media sector. The fund is the first of its kind ...
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Technology is revolutionizing the world by providing tools for entrepreneurship, access to critical health and education, and life-enhancing information. Today, 1.7 billion women in low- and middle-income countries still do not own mobile phones, and the gap between the number of men and women using the internet has grown steadily ...
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As part of the project »«, sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation, the universities in Dortmund, Bochum and Duisburg-Essen (University Alliance Ruhr) award: 7 PhD scholarships Project period: 07/2018 – 06/2022 | Remuneration: TV-L 13 (65 %) The graduate school MEDAS 21 is successful participant in the program »Science and Professional Practice in ...
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The Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Network invites proposals for a one-day conference to explore the self-representation and representation of Muslim women in digital media and on-screen. From media debate on hijabs in schools, to the recent viral Twitter hashtag, #MosqueMeToo highlight a chasm between society’s perceptions of Muslim women and ...
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ISIF Asia Grants and Awards are now open for 2018. In total, USD 210,000 will be shared among innovative contributions to the development of the Internet across the Asia Pacific. Grants USD 194,000 will be available for funding across four grant categories -including:

• I4D for Community Networks Grants: For projects ...
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