Following the great success achieved by “Women and New Media” training (Alexandria – Egypt, 22nd November – 1st December 2007), COPEAM carries on its involvement about women condition in the Euro-Med Media field supporting a RAI initiative addressed to women Media professionals.
As a matter of fact, women condition in the Euro-Med region still is a key issue of our times, as the EU devoting 2007 to Equal Opportunities has proved.
According to the fourth edition of UNDP Arab Human Development Report titled “ Towards the rise of women in the Arab World”, literacy represents the most important emancipation instrument for women, who still have to make huge efforts to be considered as competent as their male colleagues, more than ever in those fields that are usually considered as a male prerogative, such as Media, ITC and so on.
In the last months, COPEAM has made concrete actions in supporting Euro-Med women emancipation in the Media field: in November 2007 it took part in the training session “Women and New Media” organised by CFI and in cooperation with Anna Lindh Foundation, L’Orient le Jour and Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, that led to the setting up of a blog managed and fed by 20 Euro-Med women Media professionals, whose commitment and enthusiasm towards the project during both the training period and the following months, has proved women’s will to increase their knowledge and command of New Media languages and tools.
COPEAM today supports an action RAI International and Institutional Relations Department had introduced during 2007 Amman COPEAM Conference, and that is now about to be accomplished: next 22nd February, COPEAM will launch an on-line campaign promoting a query addressed to women Media professionals of the Euro-Med area. This initiative, that has already got an extremely positive feedback in the last months, aims at gathering reliable information in order to outline an exhaustive map of the condition of women Media professionals in the Region concerned. The results of this action will be officially presented during next COPEAM Conference that will take place in Bucharest next May and will constitute a concrete basis to start from, in conceiving new actions aimed at achieving a tangible equality in our field.