Climate Change and Multimedia Communication Workshop-2009

A workshop on ‘Climate Change and Multimedia’ is held in the Media Center of PANOS South Asia-PSA. It was an 8 day South Asian workshop from  17th August to 24 August 2009. Participants selected for the workshop were from the Media and CSOs working in various social, development, environmental and other sectors and issues in South Asia.

CCMC Workshop in Media Centre of PSA-Nepal.

Different PSA is a part of a family of Panos Institute worldwide that encourages and facilitates public discourse on a wide range of issues, particularly those that have a direct impact on the least privileged and most marginalized sections of society. Panos works through media to bring neglected subjects to the fore in developmental debate, so as to give a platform for voices and perspectives, which are often rendered voiceless in the public sphere.

In this endeavour, besides other activities, PSA is implementing a project that aims to facilitate information and communication technology (ICT) driven empowerment of the marginalized people at the grassroots in development processes in South Asian countries, to mainstream their local voices and perspectives, in order to facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, and learning on various issues such as ‘climate change’ that directly or indirectly affect their livelihood.

The Workshop was based on to build the capacity of media and other communication practitioners on climate change issues and the role of communications by applying ICTs for local content development, networking, knowledge sharing, to enable them to produce multimedia local contents on climate change communications in South Asia. It also aimed to identify possible areas of synergy between media and civil society organizations (CSOs) on multimedia local content development on climate change communications.

There were 26 participants in the workshop from different South Asian countries like: Nepal, India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri-Lanka. They were from different proffessional background. Most of them were strong in web content and research. Finally the participants from different six groups produced webpage based on the multimedia content such as: PSA (Public Service Announcement), Audio Script, Video, Photographs and Text.

You can go through the link: panosmultimedia.org for the final production of that workshop.