The Communications Commission has issued a record of administrative offence against ImediTV for airing political advertising in violation of the legislation. Monitoring revealed that the broadcaster placed two adverts during the election period in violation of the Election Code. The first of these clips called on the viewers to attend the political demonstration organised by the political union Georgian Dream on 27 October, while the second clip, titled “We Remember,” displayed...

The Communications Commission has determined radio broadcasting priorities based on the results of the public survey conducted in 14 broadcasting regions across the country, including Tbilisi, Kakheti, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Stepantsminda, Shida Kartli, Kvemo Kartli, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Imereti, Samegrelo, Svaneti, Guria and Adjara.  The Commission will use the priorities to hold competition for radio broadcasting licenses.  Competitions for private, general and specialised radio...

As part of the media literacy week, the Communications Commission, with the support of the EU Delegation to Georgia trained 50 teachers in tackling disinformation. Teachers from public schools and vocational colleges in Tbilisi, Racha-Lechkhumi and Imereti received training in critical thinking and learned about the methods of detecting disinformation and verifying content. Teachers were trained with the help of a training module developed specifically for this project. The module allowed the...

The Communications Commission has issued a record of administrative offence against Mtavari TVfor airing political advertising in violation of the legislation. The Audiovisual Media Service Regulation Department of the Commission established that the broadcaster placed two advertising clips in violation of the Election Code during the election period. The first clip called on Mikheil Saakashvili to be released from prison, while the second clip called on the viewers to attend the protest on 14...

The Communications Commission and UNICEF have held discussions on the subject of media literacy at Public School #123 in Tbilisi. Commissioner Natia Kukuladze, Head of the Media Literacy Department Maka Dakhundaridze and the representative of UNICEF in Georgia, Ghassan Khalil met with high school pupils and discussed important issues such as disinformation, fake news, and media literacy as a key tool for dealing with these challenges.  “Every child has the right to access...

The Communications Commission, together with the Ministry of Education and Science and the National Centre for Professional Development of Teachers, launched the media literacy week with a two-day conference. Participants included ComCom Commissioner Natia Kukuladze, Minister of Education Mikheil Chkhenkeli, the EU Ambassador to Georgia, the US Embassy representative, Director of the British Council in Georgia, and the representatives of UNICEF. The conference was also attended by the media...

The Communications Commission is organising the media literacy week in Georgia on 25-29 October. Georgia was one of the co-sponsors of the UN resolution on the global media literacy week, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 25 March 2021. According to the resolution, the global media literacy week will be held annually during the last week of October.    The media literacy week aims to raise awareness about the importance of media literacy as well as related challenges...

The Communications Commission will organise the first media literacy week in Georgia on 25-29 October. The global media and information literacy week will take place as part of the 2021 UN resolution that aims to raise awareness about the importance of media literacy and related challenges in the UN member countries.  Together with the Communications Commission the Ministry of Education and Science, National Centre for Professional Development of Teachers, Information Centre on NATO and...

The Communications Commission has once again deemed Caucasus Online to have violated the legislation and instructed the company to reverse the sale of its shares for the second time. The company has been given time until 31 December 2021 to submit documents proving the reversal of the sale of its shares.   Having initially sold 49% of their shares on an unlawful basis, owners of Caucasus Online then illegally sold the remaining 51% stake in the company. The Communications Commission...

Primary school pupils in 11 additional schools will learn programming, computer science and code writing using the Finnish book series “Hello Ruby.” Respective schools received the books Adventures in Coding and Journey inside the Computer from the Communications Commission free of charge. Their purpose is to develop media literacy, critical thinking, and analytical skills among the youngsters. The Communications Commission organised trainings in using the...