ComDev Celebrates Its 15th Birthday
This week, 18 & 19 September 2015, Communication for Development, Malmö University MA program, gathers its alumni, friends and colleagues to celebrate 15th anniversary of providing education in C4D.
#Action2015: A Year of Change
“2015 is a year like no other. A once in a generation opportunity…” This is not a commercial for a new movie or a book. This is #Action2015 – a global campaign driven by motivation to end poverty, inequality and climate change.
Changing Global Development Agenda? Registration is open
9 weeks to go before the 3rd Joint Nordic Conference on Development Research Nordev15, hosted by the School of Global Studies (SGS), takes place in in Gothenburg, Sweden.
World Humanitarian Day: The Power of Collaboration
Humanity. Neutrality. Impartiality. Independence. These are the major humanitarian principles defined by United Nations. On the occasion of World Humanitarian Day, celebrated annually on 19 August, we expand the list asking what innovation and technology can bring into the aid sector.
#VisualizeChange: Technology for a Change
“If we don’t look at data, we underestimate the tremendous change,” once said infographics guru, Swedish Professor Hans Rosling.The first-ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) initiated by UN aims at gathering people from all walks of life who look at data and transform it into visuals. Bring statistics to life with digital tools and get a chance to present it at the Global Consultation in Geneva, Switzerland in October 2015.
C4D in Celebration of the World Breastfeeding Week
For the last 25 years The World Breastfeeding Week has been celebrated during the first week of August to raise awareness about benefits of breastfeeding. A global target set by the World Health Assembly is to increase exclusive breastfeeding rates for newborns to at least 50% by 2025. How can C4D contribute to the target?
Social Media, Power and Democracy
The Embassy of Denmark, Indonesia, Ørecomm and Roskilde University invite you to a seminar on Social Media, Power and Democracy at Roskilde University 14 September 2015. The seminar will cover the overall theme by a discussion of the report “Building democracy with 140 characters: a case of Indonesia”, edited by Lukas Luwarso and published by The Embassy of Denmark, Indonesia.
5 Ways to Improve Aid Transparency
Aid money may never reach people in need. Where is it gone then? From crisis to crisis aid transparency remains an issue with more pitfalls revealed as well as more platforms for tracking funds created. In this article we look at 5 ways to improve transparency in the field.
Gaza in 2015: a C4D field?
Support of Palestine refugees with efforts of UNRWA, the largest UN agency on the ground in Gaza, is 65 years old. Having communication in the core of relief programs, Jennifer Watson, Senior Communications Officer at UNRWA Gaza Field Office, shares some insights about the role of C4D at UNRWA.
Oscar Hemer: “Writing Itself Is the Most Important Methodology”
Oscar Hemer, co-director of Ørecomm, on his new project Writing Across Borders; what makes ethnographic fiction and why wedding literature and academia is not the best idea for a career.
New PhD opportunities at the University of Leicester
Call for Abstracts: New Directions in Media, Communication and Sociology (NDiMS) Conference
Ørecomm Team to Gather at the University of Coimbra
“Communication and Social Change – A Citizen Perspective” Published
C4D Network to Sum Up Global Communication for Development Practice
Entering Media and Communication into Development Conferences?
IAMCR Conference 2016: Communication for Development Highlights
Glocal Classroom Revisited – Storytelling & Social Change Leicester-Malmö
I EvalComDev International Conference: Call for Papers
Looking for Media and Communication in Development Conferences: Devres 2016
