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...

The Communications Commission continues to actively work on deepening the cooperation with international partners. During the four-lateral summit of networks of regulators for electronic communications in Croatia, the Commission held successful talks with the Austrian media and electronic communications authority and signed a Memorandum of Cooperation aimed at sharingexpertise and experience in the field of electronic communications with each other. Furthermore, ComCom representatives held...

Commissioner of the Communications Commission Ekaterine Imedadze and ComCom representatives took part in the four-lateral summit of the regional networks of regulators for electronic communications held in Croatia. The objective of the annual summit was to deepen the cooperation between countries in the field of electronic communications, share their experiences and implement joint projects. In her speech at the summitCommissioner Ekaterine Imedadze highlighted the achievements and challenges...

The Communications Commission has published the media monitoring report for the  Georgian municipal elections 2021, covering the period between 3 August and 2 September 2021. Qualitative monitoring of the following national broadcasters was carried out during the reporting period: Georgian Public Broadcaster, Adjara TV of the Georgian Public Broadcaster, Imedi TV, Rustavi 2, Mtavari TVand TV Pirveli. Monitoring was carried out daily, during the prime-time period between 19:00 and 00:00. In...

The Communications Commission has upheld the complaints from the political unions European Georgia and United National Movement against Imedi TV and issued two records of administrative offences to the broadcaster for violating the Election Code of Georgia.  Imedi TV refused to broadcast the free pre-election advertising submitted by European Georgia due to hate speech content. The broadcaster contends that the video clip includes mockery, insults and unethical content that is prohibited...