DCN Podcasts Digital Communication Network

To launch #HumansForUkraine initiative, we organized a Twitter Spaces Discussion. The hosts, Diana Filimon and Aurra Kawanzaruwa talked to Ukrainian civil society activists, Yulia Reshitko, Tetiana Yakubovych and Melania Podolyak, currently living in Lviv, about the situation on the ground, how the resistance against the invaders is holding up and how can people help them. They shared both inspiring stories and heartbreaking ones and spread the word about the situation of people in Ukraine, under attack.



DCN Global launched the #HumansForUkraine campaign of user-generated multimedia stories, depicting the way Ukrainians live through the tragic experience of war, oppression, human rights violations and migration while fighting for freedom and democracy on behalf of their country and the whole world. Ηundreds of DCN members have been in contact with us, sharing their  stories as well as their profound appreciation for the global solidarity they feel. We believe that these stories need to be added to the daily flow of news about the war, to provide a human dimension and a civil society perspective. This initiative responds to a call to action by Ukrainians who want the world to hear their voices. 

 

Their stories will be updated daily, on DCN Global’s social media and on the website https://dcnglobal.net/humansforukraine  and include digital diaries, visuals, quotes, blogs, interviews,  connecting with life in Ukraine and neighbouring countries where the refugees are, during a war that threatens all of us but is experienced the most by those in the front lines, in Ukraine. 



To keep up to date with experiences Ukrainians share please visit: 

 

Webpage: https://dcnglobal.net/humansforukraine 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcnglobalnet 

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/dcnglobalnet/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DCNGlobalNet 

Tiktok: ​​https://www.tiktok.com/@dcnglobal

Digital Communication Network in partnership with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom presents the podcast series devoted to highlighting democracy and discovering the key component of reviving society after crisis.
To talk about media literacy in regions of Armenia we hosted multimedia journalist Aren Melikyan, who works as a TV journalist, fact checker, podcast producer, correspondent for a number of local and regional leading media platforms and Vahe Khachikyan, who works at “NGO center” civil society development organization as a projects coordinator. Particularly, he coordinates Vanadzor InfoTun/Infohouseproject, which aims to increase the level of media literacy among the youth of Lori region.
We have talked about the importance of media literacy many times, and this time we particularly talked about the regions of Armenia. Currently, one of our main tasks is to raise the level of media literacy in regions. The tenth episode is about measures and researches aimed at eliminating this problem.

Digital Communication Network in partnership with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom presents the podcast series devoted to highlighting democracy and discovering the key component of reviving society after crisis.
Nancy Mkrtchyan talked about hate speech to Nelli Gishyan, who is an international expert at the Council of Europe, an international human rights educator. In 2015-2018, she was the national coordinator of the CoE "No Hate Speech" movement, after which the pan-European activists of the movement and the national committees of the CoE member states established the "No Hate Speech" International Network. Nelli has been elected Chair of the International Board at "No Hate Speech" Network until December of 2021.
It is important that People could distinguish between hate speech and freedom of expression. There can be no democracy without freedom of expression, and without democracy human rights are not protected. Episode 9 is about hate speech.

Digital Communication Network in partnership with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom presents the podcast series devoted to highlighting democracy and discovering the key component of reviving society after crisis.
During the 8th episode we will talk with Head of the Distance Learning department at the “National Center of Educational Technologies” SNTO Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, Founder and CEO at Beyond Learning Hub Hayk Daveyan.
There are many challenges for education today, and the latest technologies help to overcome them. This time we talked about organization of distance learning and future classes.

Digital Communication Network in partnership with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom presents the podcast series devoted to highlighting democracy and discovering the key component of reviving society after crisis.
To talk about “Democracy, Trust and Freedom of Speech: Building Resilient Societies” topic we hosted Associate Professor of School of Journalism and Mass Media Communication, Faculty of Economic and Political Sciences, Aristotle University and DAAD Scholar to Deutsche Welle Nikos Panagiotou and Visiting Junior Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund and an MA candidate at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale Elen Aghekyan.
On the difficult path to building a stable society, it is principal to fight against people's fears and for gaining their trust, so that it can resist disinformation, have a healthy media environment, information security, civic trust, and social capital.

Digital Communication Network in partnership with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom presents the podcast series devoted to highlighting democracy and discovering the key component of reviving society after crisis.
During the sixth episode, we will talk about spread of conspiracy theories and disinformation. Our guests are Givi Gigitashvili, an open-source data analyst and digital researcher, whose research interests include, but are not limited to foreign influence operations in the Eurasia region, social media manipulation and computational propaganda campaigns, and Harout Manougian, an election administration and systems expert based in Yerevan.
Conspiracy theories are part of the disinformation caused especially by social and political
uncertainty. To better understand where conspiracy theories are coming from and how they impact the public opinion, you can listen to the episode.