INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN CUBA FOR MEDIA PROFESSIONALS

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN CUBA FOR MEDIA PROFESSIONALS
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Latin American media professionals are invited to participate in an international conference to be held in Havana, Cuba.

The Encuentro Internacional de Investigadores y Estudiosos de la Información y la Comunicación (ICOM) is scheduled for December 6 to 10. The school of communications at the Universidad de la Habana is organizing the event. The theme of the event, translated, is "Cyberculture, development and social change: real worlds, possible worlds."

Lectures, debates and roundtable discussions will focus on topics such as digital journalism, social and cultural Internet use, media professionals' learning process with digital communications, communication among community members, and the relationship between media, power and politics.

Participants can also choose from 12-hour courses on three topics: digital journalism, trends in contemporary journalism, and verifying information. 

The registration fee for international representatives and lecturers is US$100. International students' fee is US$50 and the fee for Cuban lecturers and local representatives is CUP50. Those participants interested in attending one of the courses should submit a US$50 fee when registering at the event.

Members from different Cuban media outlets as well as representatives from information and cultural organizations will be present at the conference. The event also aims to exchange information among participants regarding cultural issues and folklore.

For more information contact margarita@fcom.uh.cu or visit http://www.felafacs.org/noticias/noticias.asp?cmd=view&articleid=501

The Cuban government has not been hospitable to independent journalism among its people. After a brief period of tolerating some independent Cuban journalists – and even though their reports were inaccessible to the Cuban people – the government arrested 27 of them in 2003.

In Reporters Without BordersÂ’ recent press freedom rankings, Cuba ranked second-to-last in the world. For more information, see http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10020

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