Financed by the Euro-Mediterranean Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (ALF) and by Canal France International, this training project has been led by CFI in partnership with COPEAM, the Bibliotheca
Alexandrina and the Lebanese newspaper L'Orient le Jour.An innovative and trans-national action that opens up to the civil society, since it allows the access of young women working in the Media sector to the new technologies through the creation of a “blog of women”: a virtual place of intercultural dialogue, of research and of exchanges devoted to women, managed by women and referred to bothmen and women.
The training seminar - addressed to 20 selected women professionals and held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina - was focused on the technical aspects and the editorial contents for the New Media, on the new multimedia tools
access, on the use of Internet in the journalistic practice as a communication and research instrument, on the blogosphere, on the legislative framework and on the new ICT economical aspects.Amongst the goals of the project, that of encouraging the editorial pluralism, the freedom of expression, the exchanges of opinions and of experiences, in order to promote, among the region audiences, a balanced and free-fromstereotype image of women in the Media.
