OSCE concludes training seminars for journalists on legal regulation of media on the Internet
Seminar
- Date:
- Location:
- Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan
- Organized by:
- OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, the NGO Legal Media Centre
- Source:
- OSCE Programme Office in Astana
- Fields of work:
- Media freedom and development
About
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan will support a one-day seminar for some 20 local journalists and bloggers of Almaty region. The participants will be familiarized with the national and international media framework, including practical and legislative aspects of media regulation on the Internet. The event will be the final in series of three training seminars, organized in the country regions.
The event sessions will be dedicated to access to information, restrictions on freedom of expression, protection of personal data, work with different digital sources of information and fact-checking, and the protection of civil rights in the media field. Together with national experts from the NGONGO
non-governmental organization Legal Media Centre, the participants will examine court cases on hate speech, and instruments of working with the open government database.