As part of the project to integrate media literacy into formal education, media literacy trainer Rusudan Karkadze trained more than 50 teachers in Ozurgeti and Chokhatauri. Beneficiaries of the media literacy training will be teaching optional media literacy classes to 10th graders. Students will learn about media literacy, media and information language, information processing and disinformation. The Communications Commission, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of...

Communications Commission member Ekaterine Imedadze took part at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva. At the high-level policy session “Enabling Environment,” Ms Imedadze talked about the development of digital IT, creating an enabling environment for digital transformation, and the role of regulatory bodies in this process.  The commissioner also talked about the important initiatives implemented by ComCom in the field of promoting competition on the...

As part of the Digital Support Programme, the Communications Commission has trained around 100 people from the villages of Acharistskali, Maghlakoni, Kapnistavi, Kirnati, Maradidi and Zeda Jocho in the Municipality of Khelvachauri in media literacy and safe use of the internet. The programme was launched in the municipality on February 13, and around 300 locals have already undergone training. With the help of specialists, participants learned how to search for information, create and use...

As part of the project to integrate media literacy into formal education, media literacy trainer Khatuna Tsikhelashvili has trained more than 20 teachers in Mtskheta. The teachers will use the knowledge acquired during the meeting to teach 10th graders media literacy as an optional subject. The pupils who choose this class will study under the guidance of trained teachers for one semester and learn about media literacy, media and information language, information processing and...

The Communications Commission has issued a written caution to the TV broadcaster BMG for violating the Law on Broadcasting. The case concerns the unlawful broadcasting of a story that was funded by the political union Lelo for Georgia. Having studied the case, the Commission concluded that the broadcaster violated the Law of Georgia on Broadcasting, which prohibits political parties from financing broadcasters, procuring their services and financing, directly or indirectly, the production and...

The Media Academy of the Communications Commission has organised training for Georgian TV producers in TV product management, production optimisation and creative team management. The seminar was led by Natia Abramia, Change and Improvement Manager at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Based on practical examples, she discussed the pre-production, production and post-production stages with the participants. During the two-day seminar, Natia Abramia shared her many years of...

As part of the project to integrate media literacy into formal education, the Communications Commission has held a training for teachers in Akhaltsikhe. The seminar was led by media literacy trainer Manana Jincharadze, who introduced the teaching module to the participants. The meeting was attended by around 30 teachers who will be teaching the subject of media literacy in schools. The project to integrate media literacy into formal education began in 2022, and serves to introduce an optional...

More than 30 teachers received training at the Media Academy of the Communications Commission as part of the project to integrate media literacy into formal education. The seminar, which was led by media literacy expert Natalia Ingorokva, was attended by ComCom member Natia Kukuladze and UNICEF representative in Georgia Ghassan Khalil, who discussed the theoretical and practical issues that will be taught by the media literacy teachers in schools. The project to integrate media literacy into...

As part of the project to integrate media literacy into formal education, the Communications Commission has held a training for teachers in Gori. The seminar was led by media literacy trainer Ani Gvetadze, who introduced the teaching module to the participants. The meeting was attended by around 30 teachers who will be teaching the subject of media literacy in schools. The project to integrate media literacy into formal education began in 2022, and serves to introduce an optional subject for...

As part of the Digital Support Programme, the Communications Commission has trained more than 100 people in the villages of Kondidi, Leghva, Chakhati, Tskavroka and Gvara in the Municipality of Kobuleti in digital literacy and safe use of the internet. The programme was launched in the target locations on February 7, and already has more than 200 beneficiaries as of today. With the help of specialists, participants learned how to search for information, create and use e-mail, use Google Maps...