The number of public schools teaching media literacy as an optional subject increased substantially and reached 227 this year. Notably, public schools in Georgian regions account for 91% of the 227 facilities. These significant results have been achieved through the project to integrate media literacy into formal education, which was implemented with the help of UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of Georgia. As part of the project, media literacy was integrated into formal...

The Chairman of the Communications Commission, Kakha Bekauri, met the observer mission of the Council of Europe in to discuss the monitoring of the Georgian media space during the election period, election campaigns and free political advertising, as well as to assess the current situation and discuss the challenges in this regard. After the meeting, Kakha Bekauri spoke to the media about the aforementioned issues and emphasised that all decisions made by the Communications Commission are based...

Within the framework of the UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week, the Media Lab of the Communications Commission will hold a media literacy hackathon for young people, which aims to identify media literacy-related challenges and innovative ways of resolving them, as well as raise awareness about the opportunities in the digital media industry. Teams can register for the hackathon until 24 November.  This year's themes of the global media literacy hackathon themes are...

The Communications Commission has added another group of online lectures to its Masterclass series, this time by TV presenter Naniko Khazaradze. The masterclass is designed for people who wish to achieve success in the entertainment industry and present educational and entertainment programmes. As part of the Masterclass, Naniko Khazaradze uses her 35 years of experience to talk about the transformation of educational and entertainment programmes over time and the skills required to achieve...

The Communications Commission has deemed Palitra News and Obieqtivi to have violated the Election Code of Georgia and issued them with violation protocols.  ComCom carried out media monitoring and found that Palitra News placed free political adverts of the political unions Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia, Girchi, European Democrats and Citizens in violation of the Election Code, while Obieqtivi aired the free political adverts of Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia and the...

The Communications Commission has announced a second auction for the implementation of 5G mobile internet. Cellfie Mobile was the only company who took part in last year’s auction. As it is vitally important for the Commission to facilitate the implementation of new technologies, it took the request of operators into account and allowed them to participate in the second auction in order to implement 5G technology and provide customers with high-quality services. The auction has been...

The Communications Commission has partially upheld the complaint lodged by the political union Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia against the following broadcasters: Mtavari Arkhi, Formula, TV Pirveli, Teleimedi, Rustavi 2 (Media Holding), Studio Maestro, PosTV, Georgian Public Broadcaster, Adjara TV and Radio of the Georgian Public Broadcaster, Silk Media, and Ilioni. Today’s session of the Communications Commission dealt with the complaint, which concerned several...

The Chairman of the Communications Commission, Kakha Bekauri, spoke about the importance of free political advertising in the pre-election period and noted that refusal to place free political advertising on behalf of a political subject by broadcasters creates a dangerous and damaging precedent both for the election environment and the said subject, which puts it in an unequal environment during the pre-election period. “If a broadcaster refuses to place a free political advert requested...

The Communications Commission has issued the television company BMG with a violation protocol for broadcasting a public opinion poll in violation of the law. As a result of pre-election media monitoring, it was established that the broadcaster unlawfully aired the public opinion poll on 14 September. Specifically, the company violated the Election Code of Georgia, which states that when publishing public opinion poll results, the broadcaster must specify the person ordering the poll, the date...

ComCom member Natia Kukuladze took part in the Digital Skills Forum organised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). As part of a high-level dialogue about digital transformation and the inequality of digital skills, she talked about the steps and initiatives undertaken by ComCom to develop digital skills, as well as the importance of developing media literacy and the challenges in this regard. “Along with other important initiatives and projects, I would like to highlight...