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.
Study and Information Program
Study and Dialogue Programme for Bloggers and Journalists from Sub-Sahara Africa
15 bloggers, journalists and internet activists have been invited to spend a week in Berlin.
Workshop
How to Teach Economic Journalism
The three day workshop in Nairobi, Kenya is bringing together business journalism professors and lecturers from 11 African countries. Its aim is to help raise the standard of teaching business journalism on the continent.
Workshop
"Surveillance, Privacy and Net Neutrality"
How safe are we while surfing the Internet? And what can we do to protect our data on the network? These questions will be answered by Constanze Kurz, from Germany’s Chaos Computer Club in a workshop at Wits University in Johannesburg.
Expert conference
African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF)
AMLF is the largest and most important market place for media owners and executives on the continent. Delegates from all over Africa are expected to meet at the event to exchange ideas about technology, business models and the content of the future.
Expert conference
Power Reporting 2015
"Power Reporting" is the leading conference for investigative journalists in Africa. KAS Media Africa supports its partner Wits University in Johannesburg in organizing the three-day event for journalists from all over the continent.
Workshop
Workshop #AfricaBlogging
Network prepares Launch of Blogger Platform
The platform aims to bring together critical voices from Sub Saharan Africa and make them accessible to a wider audience. It promotes reporting about social and political topics not adequately covered in the mainstream media’s selection of news.
Congress
E-lection Bridge Academy 2015
The challenge of crafting ‘sticky’ political messages and optimizing them for social media was the scope of the E-lection Bridge Academy workshop in Windhoek, Namibia. One highlight was the visit of Prof. Lammert,President of the German Bundestag.
Seminar
Litigation Surgery Workshop
Defending media freedom in East Africa
KAS Media Africa partnered with the Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) in hosting a four-day “Litigation Surgery” workshop for young East African lawyers, helping them to build litigation skills and legal strategies for protecting media freedom.
Event
Radio Days Africa 2015
Radio is still the leading mass medium in Africa. At Radio Days Africa, experts from all over Africa discuss the chances and future developments of radio on the continent. The focus is on radio in a digital age and multimedia broadcasting.
Workshop
E-lection Bridge Dakar
For the first time, KAS Media Africa is taking "E-lection Bridge" to a francophone country. The three-day event in Dakar, Senegal will deal with the political situation in Western Africa and discuss latest trends in political campaigning.