Events

UNESCO promotes Media and Information Literacy (MIL) facing the new challenges for freedom of expression, citizen participation, and for the consumption, production and transmission of information, such as information saturation, misinformation, false news and the dissemination of hate speech, but above all, it promotes MIL to identify and take advantage of alternative responses to this type of problem.

MIL is a combination of knowledge, attitudes, skills and practices that allow "access, analyze, evaluate, use, produce and communicate information and knowledge in an ethical, legal and creative way that respects human rights", therefore its promotion it is urgent.

In Mexico, UNESCO and the DW Akademie, led the creation of a plural and multisectoral cooperation group that promotes the development of knowledge, promotion and dissemination of the MIL competences and increasing the recognition of the importance of MIL in the country.

The MIL Alliance, created in 2013, already has five regional chapters. The México network would join the Latin American Network.

Launch of the Mexico MIL Network

The event will be held digitally, on a live broadcast on trough  UNESCO Mexico FB Live, as well as the accounts of the eight organizations and Founding Partners of the NETWORK. In addition to the presentation of this work group and its members, the MIL Guide for journalists will be presented.

Founding Partners of the Network will participate

• UNESCO Mexico
• DW Akademie
• Veracruz University
• Autonomous University of Nuevo León
• National Electoral Institute
• Mexican Institute of Radio
• Tomato Valley
• SocialTIC

The objectives of the Mexico MIL Network are:

• Visibilize the urgency of an AMI agenda in Mexico.
• Promote the development of AMI competencies and AMI dissemination actions among specific groups, particularly journalists, teachers, young people between 14 and 24 years of age, and indigenous people.
• Promote a plural space for dialogue and joint actions to disseminate AMI in Mexico.
• Promote research, analysis and dissemination of good practices around AMI competencies.

URL:

https://events.unesco.org/event?id=661533582&lang=1033