Students trained as part of the media literacy contest “Truth or Fiction?” trained around 130 pupils of 9th, 10th and 11th grades at Tbilisi public schools Nº8, 29, 143 and 145 in media literacy. The students had taken part in the “Truth or Fiction?” contest, where they were selected as winners. With the help of media literacy experts, they underwent training in teaching media literacy to further their career development, and obtained certified trainer...

The Communications Commission, with the support of UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth, continues to actively integrate media literacy into formal education. As part of this process, one of the teachers trained by ComCom headed a media literacy lesson at Public School Nº175. During the semester, pupils will learn about the importance of media literacy, types of disinformation, as well as the ways to discover fake news and establish true facts using a variety of...

The Communications Commission has postponed public administrative proceedings on the comprehensive study of the mobile market until 9 August, while the oral hearing has been scheduled for 18 July. The Commission postponed the administrative proceedings due to Magticom presenting additional comments that require in-depth processing, studying, and additional time.  As a result of the comprehensive study commissioned by ComCom, EU experts found that the Georgian mobile communications market...

ComCom member Ekaterine Imedadze and the chief specialist of the IR Service Mzia Gogilashvili took part in the high-level World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) organised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). During the event, the Communications Commission signed a memorandum of understanding with the communications regulatory authority of Bahrain (TRA) in order to enhance cooperation and exchange information. The agreement serves to encourage the activities carried out by...

The 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission presents the activities of the Media School, which shows that the school has been actively working for more than four years to implement media standards and help media representatives and people interested in this industry to raise their qualifications. Last year, the Media School held 13 seminars for producers, as well as active and rookie journalists and cameramen.  In addition to the seminars, for more than two years the Media...

According to the 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission, the Media Lab of the Cedia Academy actively supported startups in the field of media literacy and digital media in 2023. The Media Lab held more than 20 seminars and trained up to 450 startuppers last year.  In 2023, the Media Lab organised two editions of “Ideadrome” – a contest that aims to discover startup ideas, attract funding for potential startups and helping them bring their product to the...

According to the 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission, ComCom has been implementing a variety of projects to raise public awareness about media literacy for a number of years. One of the most important among them was the project to integrate media literacy into formal education, which the Commission implemented with the support of UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth. The Commission carried out research on media literacy needs, devised an educational...

The Communications Commission, together with UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of Georgia, held an informational meeting with school principals in Rustavi on the topic of integrating media literacy into formal education and raising awareness about the subject among the school leadership. The meeting took place at the Rustavi Resource Centre, and was attended by 30 school principals.  Participants were addressed by the Head of ComCom Media Literacy Department Mariam...

According to the 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission, the number of customers receiving transit broadcasting services in 2023 decreased by 9000 year-on-year to 745,000, which was due to the termination of Magtisat services. The customer density also decreased slightly: the usage of transit broadcasting services by customers amounted to 67.1%, which is 1% less than in 2022. It is worth noting that with the exception of 2023, the number of transit broadcasting users grew in each...

According to the 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission, the communications sector contributed a total of GEL 499,573,882 to the state budget in 2023, which is GEL 65,274,127 more than in the previous year. Out of this amount, GEL 56,048,528 was contributed by broadcasters to the Georgian state budget in the form of taxes, while GEL 441,467,364 was contributed by authorised entities in accordance with the Law of Georgia on Electronic Communications. Licensing revenues accounted...