The CAPTCHA project was a partnership of three community media organizations (Radio Corax, Germany; the Near Media Co-op, Ireland; Radio FRO, Austria) and the Center for Media, Data and Society. The project, which ran from September 2013 to August 2015, was supported by a grant from the Culture Programme of the European Union and it aimed to empower community media and programme makers to increase the online accessibility of their programmes.
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January 18, 2016
"We need to historicize this phenomenon in order to understand it," explained Omar Al-Ghazzi, lecturer at the University of Sheffield's Journalism Department in his lecture "From the Arab Spring to ISIS: On the Mediation of History in Arab Politics" held on January 14. The phenomenon that he was talking about is the events that have come to be known as "the Arab Spring" – events that were, according to Al-Ghazzi, unique in part because of the way they were communicated.
October 27, 2015
As refugees began arriving into Budapest in greater and greater numbers in early September, CMDS Director of the Civil Society and Technology Project Kate Coyer was struck by the large number of people searching for wifi and places to charge their smartphones. “I thought there must be something we could do that was fast, affordable and flexible,” Coyer explained.
September 18, 2015
The School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University in partnership with the Central European University Institute for Advanced Study (CEU IAS) in Budapest, and the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin have launched a fellowship program for researchers and public policy practitioners from nine countries (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Iran...
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