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News
10/05/2010
 CMIC,
along with Caucasus New Media Institute, has prepared a report
on the status of Internet and Internet media in Azerbaijan and
all over the world. The reports to be regularly prepared from
March shall depict the monthly most popular sites of Azerbaijan,
the most visited Azeri sites abroad, the number of internet
users, growth dynamics of internet and other important aspects.
You can see the report for March
here.
Projects
 For
the time being, CMIC at its own expenses, implements the project
on promoting citizenry journalism in the regions of Azerbaijan
and strengthening of internet knowledge with the young people.
Primarily, hundreds of young schoolchildren are given lessons of
computer skills and internet use, office software, social
networks, new media and the latest opportunities of Web2,
blogging. The main core of the project is to contribute to the
networking of youth via internet. Several donor organizations
have been applied for funding the given project.
Meetings
Mr. Anar Orujov, Director of
Caucasus Media Investigations Center met with the famous
philanthropist, founder of Open Society Institute Assistance
Foundation – George Soros. At the meeting, Mr. Soros spoke of
the idea of Open Society Institute and its philosophy, and
accentuated the importance of developing this idea of nations.
After meeting, Soros met with the participants of the event and
held an exchange of views with the youth on different issues
emphasizing their active role in the development processes.
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Aprel, 2010. Director of CMIC Anar Orujov has participated
in the meeting with Mr. Tony Bowden from MySociety.org. Mr
Bowden gave a presentation on what MySociety.org is doing in the
realm of social media, web applications and other new media.
Transparency and accountability problems of the government and
current problems access to information in Azerbaijan society
were discussed in the meeting.
Reports
10.05.
2010 CMIC, along with Caucasus New Media Institute, has
prepared a report on the status of Internet and Internet media
in Azerbaijan and all over the world.
REPORT
Press release
April 12, 2010
CMIC calls the Azerbaijani Government to fairly treat with the
bloggers
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Innovations
 The
International Center For Journalists broke new ground in
Azerbaijan on Friday, October 10, 2008 with its transmission of
a pre-election forum over the Internet. The event, entitled
“Democracy in Azerbaijan: Goals and Challenges,” drew an
audience of more than 100 people to the Park Inn, but also
attracted viewers that ranged from Azerbaijan to North America.
 Anar
Orujov, deputy director of the ICFJ investigative journalism
program in Baku, served as de facto technical manager of the
event. He said that overall the transmission occurred with very
few problems. One of the most significant obstacles faced was
that the transmission speed was only about 1/20th of what was
expected. By adjusting the quantity of information transmitted,
however, the Internet webcasting proceeded smoothly.
“The quality of the video was not so good, but the event could
be watched with a normal Internet stream,” said Orujov.
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New Media projects of CMIC
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Citizen journalism network |
CMIC for the first time in Azerbaijan, has established
Citizen Journalism Network.
Watchdog
– citizenry journalism project mainly
aims at, by enlarging the opportunities of alternate
media in the country, giving opportunities to persons to
self-expression, and share with one another and all over
the world all their problems, challenges and attempts
which they find them incorrect.
Problems are tackled by sharing, making them public, and
discussing them. We believe in it.
Watchdog
– citizen journalism network follows its main idea is
to call citizens to be watchful, and create a virtual
space of those who are combined around illegalities,
problems, and also entertainments, ideas, thinking.
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International cooperation
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 CMIC
closely cooperates with a number of local and
international organizations in giving trains for
media freedom and training Azeri journalists as
professional media specialists. In the above
trainings, CMIC closely cooperates with the
International
Center
For
Journalists
which is headquartered in Washington, US. During the
years 2007 -2009, Azerbaijan – one of the main
partners of the International Journalists Center has
implemented “Specialized Journalism Training” with
the support of the US Department of State. Starting
from the end of 2008, there were organized trainings
in Baku, Ganja, Zagatala, Sheki and Lankaran for
development of citizenry journalism in the regions
on new media, blog-making, basis of journalism,
audio and video broadcast via internet.
CMIC closely cooperates with
World Committee of the Freedom of
Press on gaining media
freedom in Azerbaijan and prevention of pursuits
against journalists. In the years 2007, 2008 and
2009, WCFP at the initiative of CMIC, demonstrated
support to the arrested journalists and has several
times addressed to Mr.President Ilham Aliyev. After
the second try, Mr.President pardoned those
journalists.
CMIC has a close cooperation with the Danish
organization,
SCOOP
which renders support to the media investigations
and other organizations which are engaged in media
freedom and protection of human rights.
CMIC is a member organization to the Azerbaijani
Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative Coalition,
"Call for Health" Health Alliance,
and co-founder of
Baku Bureau for Human Rights
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Our
mission
 Democracy,
developed civil society and free press are the most
important values for a state that considers itself legal.
After gaining independence, Azerbaijan has taken certain
steps toward democratization and implemented reforms. But we
reckon that some serious reforms are still needed to
implement in many areas and Azerbaijan has not properly
arranged its road to democracy yet.
Democracy is a kind notion that can be compared with the
FREEDOM. It is not given to anybody, but it is gained. And
it evolves as an inner need for a man that is a man can
become free to the extent he/she wants to. There is only one
way to a man’s claiming the security of his/her freedom and
rights: there should be prevailed a majority of persons who
own free thinking, well-educated and give priority to their
rights in your society. Our MISSION is clear: To train
educated people by spreading knowledge as much as possible!
To achieve media freedom! To bring democracy to the life of
an Azerbaijani people as an unchanged value!
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