Events - Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa
Workshop
fully bookedAfrican Media Councils' Meeting
Convened by the South African Press Council and supported by KAS Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa.
The aim of the meeting is to strengthen self-regulation of media content in Africa by fostering communication and an exchange of information between independent media councils, identifying issues of common concern, discussing the establishment of a network of media councils, and giving African delegates the opportunity to prepare for and attend the conference of the global Organisation of News Ombudsmen and Standards.
Event
2024 IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival
A gathering of leading journalists, editors, and publishers from around the world.
Journalists from Africa will attend with the support of the KAS Media Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa. So, they can bring their respective perspectives, knowledge and experiences from Africa into the debates.
Event
Reporter Slam Africa 2024
Entertaining stage format with journalists in cooperation with the Reporter Slam Organisation Germany and African citizens.
The event brings journalists into the spotlight and challenges them to tell a unique and interesting way about their work. At the event journalists will compete against each other and present their story as creative as possible and give a behind the scenes look at their life as a journalist. The end of the event the journalist whose story is appeals to the public will be named the Slammer for 2024.
Forum
fully bookedDeutsche Welle Global Media Forum
Sharing Solutions
The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum offers a unique interdisciplinary platform for media professionals as well as decision-makers from politics, civil society, culture, education, business, and science from all over the world to get together and to learn from each other as part of an intercultural exchange since 2008.
Conversation
#AfricaBlogging – Political Blogging in Subsahara-Africa
re:publica 2015
In this session, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and re:publica provide a forum for political bloggers from Africa.
Expert conference
Power Reporting 2014
The African Investigative Journalism Conference.
The watchdog role of the media is an important element of democratic societies. That is why in 2014, KAS Media Africa once again supports "Power Reporting" - a conference for every journalist who wants to improve his or her investigative skills.
Expert conference
Social Media and Journalism Conference
With the increasing internet availability in Africa, social media has become more and more important. For the first time, KAS Media Africa is hosting an international conference with social media activists and bloggers from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Event
Joburg Radio Days 2014
Radio is still the leading mass medium in Africa. Experts will discuss on the chances and future developments of radio on the continent at this event. The focus is on radio in digital age and multimedia broadcasting.
Workshop
Website Optimization and Social Media Workshop
Social Media and internet performance becomes more important for parties to get into touch with their voters. This workshop will provide the partnerparties of KAS Media Africa with the needed skills for communication strategies and technologies.
Expert conference
KAS E-lection Bridge 2014
For the fourth time the KAS E-lection Bridge brings leading campaign experts from Subsahara-Africa and Europe together at one table. The focus of the conference was campaign strategy, working with media and inner party democracy
Seminar
KAS E-lection Bridge Academy 2014
For the second time the E-lection Bridge Academy took place in Kampala, Uganda. It is a sidekick of the E-lection Bridge conference and tries to train the participants in advance to that on topics as political communication and inner party democracy
Congress
IPI World Congress
Decriminalization of Expression Panel
Journalists are considered the state's fourht force. But in many African countries the suffer from repressive media law. This was the topic of this years Congress of the International Press Institute held in South Africa.
Workshop
IFP Spokespeople Training Session
KAS Media Africa launched a Spokespeople Training Session for its partner party in South Africa, the Inkatha Freedom Party, before the elections. The main topics were campaign messaging and the professional behavior in press conferences.
Study and Information Program
Study and Dialogue Programme
Seven campaigning experts from African partner parties were invited to Berlin to learn from the CDU election campaign in 2013. It was the second time that Christian Echle, Director of KAS Media Africa, invited a delegation to the German capital.
