ComCom Announces the 3rd Media Literacy Olympiad for Schools Across Georgia

The Communications Commission is announcing the Media Literacy Olympiad for students and teachers for the third consecutive year, with the aim of raising awareness of media literacy within school communities. Schools across Georgia can submit their competition entries from 21 September through 21 October.  The Olympiad is open to school teams, which must consist of students from grades I–VIII or IX–XII, and be led by one teacher. Using reliable sources and citing them... more

ComCom Representative Takes Part in BRAF’s 13th Annual Meeting

Representative of the Media Services Regulation Department of the Communications Commission, Tinatin Chachukashvili, took part in the 13th annual meeting of the Black Sea Broadcasting Regulatory Authorities Forum (BRAF), organised by the Bulgarian Council for Electronic Media (CEM) and the BRAF Secretariat.  The 13th BRAF annual meeting aimed to facilitate the exchange of experience and best practices among member states on the event’s main topic, “Artificial Intelligence in... more

ComCom and UNICEF Hold Working Meeting

Chairman of the Communications Commission Goga Gulordava and Commissioner Natia Kukuladze met with UNICEF Representative in Georgia Isabella Castrogiovanni and UNICEF Communication Programme Manager Maia Kurtsikidze. During the working meeting, the parties discussed the current state of media literacy in the country, the importance of media literacy skills in the modern information environment, and the results achieved in integrating media literacy into formal education. The discussion also... more

ComCom Representative Takes Part in WTIS-26

Giorgi Kavtaradze, representative of the Competition Promotion and Market Regulation Department of the Communications Commission, took part in the 21st World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium (WTIS-26), organised by the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Swiss Confederation. The ComCom representative also attended the 17th meeting of the Expert Group on Telecommunication/ICT Indicators (EGTI) and the 14th meeting of the... more

ComCom Issues a Written Warning to Rustavi 2 for Violating Impartiality Principles

The Communications Commission has issued a written warning to Media Holding, operating under the brand name Rustavi 2, for violating the Law of Georgia on Broadcasting. Specifically, the monitoring activities carried out by the Commission between 10 August and 12 August of this year established that the 21:00 news programmes on the channel contained instances of reporting news based on the broadcaster’s personal attitudes/opinions. The legislation prohibits broadcasters from covering, in... more