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Media
Personality G M Mourtoza Awarded Rajshahi,
November 20: Bangladesh Debate Federation (BDF) offered
special award to media personality G M Mourtoza for his
outstanding contribution in encouraging debate practice to
flourish creativity of the students and youth community in
Rajshahi region.
Notably,
mass communication oriented knowledge centre CCD Bangladesh
patronized by media personality G M Mourtoza has been
organizing debate workshops and competitions for last
several years to enhance skills, capacity, leadership
quality and creativity of the students and youth community
in Rajshahi region. In the history of Rajshahi University,
CCD has arranged for the first time inter-department debate
competition, inter-college debate competition,
inter-personal debate competition, parliamentary debate
competition, debate festival, orientation, workshop and
training courses here. The participants and beneficiaries of
the debate programs of CCD formed GOLD with the
patronization of CCD Bangladesh. CCD authority thanked officials and members of BDF, GOLD and Banglalink for presenting G M Mourtoza special award. TTT
Workshop in Information Literacy for South and Central Asia
concluded in India A
three daylong workshop in Information Literacy has
successfully concluded on 7 November 2008, at Punjabi
University in Patiala, India. This Workshop, which is one in
the series of eleven IFAP-funded TTT workshops, is organized
by the Department of Library and Information Science of
Punjabi University from 5 to 7 November. The workshop was
inaugurated through a colorful opening ceremony on 5
November 2008, at Senate Hall of the Punjabi University in
Patiala, India.
Mr. Sidhu Damdami, Editor of Punjabi Tribune (a daily newspaper), in his presentation of a media perspective of information literacy, observed that World Wide Web has taken the shape of 'wild wild web'. He emphasized the need to promote information literacy to save the innocent minds from further damage. He also felt that the information literacy campaigns should be directed towards providing knowledge to the adults. The
Workshop (The
tenth UNESCO Training-the-Trainers (TTT) aims
at providing a platform for creating a pool of trainers in
information literacy who will impart information and media
literacy skills to the graduate and post-graduate students
and researchers in their respective institutions across the
sub-regions. About 50 participants and 10 resource persons from the South and Central Asia are attending the event, which is the successor of two information literacy sub-regional workshops held in South Asia:
Resource persons and participants from Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Turkmenistan have stressed the importance of information literacy curricula for library and media schools in South and Central Asia. As a result of this discussion, a working group has been created in order to develop a model of such curriculum, in consultations with teachers, professional associations and other stakeholders in the respective regions. Mr.
G M Mourtoza, Director of CCD and renowned media activist of
Bangladesh took part in the workshop as a resource person.
CCD will arrange a number of such kind workshops and
orientation courses on
Information Literacy in Bangladesh in near feature. Prof. Jagtar Singh, Head of the Department of Library and Information Science and Dean of Faculty of Education and Information Science of Punjabi University has successfully coordinated the workshop. Online
Radio Broadcasting Training Workshop conclude in Nepal Online
radio has a lot of potentiality
to raise
marginalized people’s voices and create
massive awareness on several socio-development issues and
policy advocacy as well.
The
aims of the workshop were to provide know-how on the
potential of the Internet offers to radio and point them to
ways of incorporating it in their respective media outlets'
strategy. Based on hands-on training in digital
technologies, the workshop curriculum have covered the
issues of distributing material online and the techniques of
streaming content to global audiences. Trainees have
acquainted with the latest real-time on-line broadcasting
technologies, as well as with the fundamentals of
digitisation of multimedia input, encoding, compression
standards and online audio streaming. Mr.
Kishor Pradhan, Country Representative of Panos
Nepal and Mr. Karun Thapa, one of the key ICT & e-media
expert of Nepal have conducted the technical sessions of the
training. Mr. Sathis, Ms. Dawa and Ms. Katha provided
all-out support to successfully arrange the training
workshop. A total of 22 participants comprising broadcasters, journalists, multimedia developers and communication and ICT professionals attended the workshop. The participants where come from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Bhutan and Nepal. Mr.
G M Mourtoza, Director of communication based knowledge
centre CCD Bangladesh also took part in the workshop as a
resource person. |
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He
was awarded in an auspicious function held at Rajshahi
District Council Auditorium on Monday. Chief Guest in the
function former Advisor of the Care Taker Government of
Bangladesh M Hafiz Uddin Khan handed over the award to G M
Mourtoza. Noted litterateur Prof Hasan Azizul Hoque, Freedom
Fighter Prof Shamsul Alam Bir Protik, Regional Chief of
Banglalink Jahir Uddin Md Nadib and President of BDF
Tasinuddin Ahmed attended the function as special guests.
With sponsorship and cooperation of Banglalink and BDF,
Group of Liberal Debators (GOLD)-Rajshahi University (RU)
organized this function. The winners and debaters of the
Inter-university Debate Championship were also awarded in
the function. 
Dr
Amrik Singh, educationist and former Vice Chancellor of
Punjabi University, inaugurated the Workshop. In his
address, he stressed the importance of information literacy
training at school level and of the need to promote wider
use of knowledge and information through informal channels.
It
was expressed in a weeklong Online Radio Broadcasting
Training Workshop held from 19 to 23 June at Panos South
Asia Media Centre in Kathmandu.