Category: News

Fake news i Brasil «Trump har endret vår måte å tenke på. Strategien er å lyve så mye at folk ikke vet om du lyver», sa økonomen Joseph Stiglitz på en konferanse på OsloMet i mars 2019. Å lyve så mye at folk ikke vet at du lyver eller når du lyver, å komme med… Continue reading Fake news i Koronaens tid

  MEKK member Ingrid Fadnes was invited to moderate a conversation about the current situation in the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) at this years HUMAN Rights & HUMAN Wrongs International documentary film festival. In several cities in Central America, the humanitarian situation is similar to what we see in wars. Murders, extortion,… Continue reading MEKK at the HUMAN documentary film festival

  Media and Communication is out with a special issue on Rethinking Safety of Journalists. The editors are Mekk-member Kristin Skare Orgeret, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway & William Tayeebwa, Department of Journalism and Communication, Makerere University, Uganda. The issue gathers nine articles on subjects as safety training, censorship, online… Continue reading Rethinking Safety of Journalists

  MEKK-medlem Kristin Skare Orgeret lanserte boka “Giskesaken – og hvordan vi får #metoo tilbake på sporet” som hun har skrevet samme med Anja Sletteland onsdag 26. februar. Boka, hvor forfatterne forsøker å sortere og å analysere hele pressedekningen av varslersakene mot Aps tidligere nestleder Trond Giske, har sparket i gang debatten om blant annet… Continue reading Lansering og debatt om ny bok: Giskesaken – og hvordan vi får #metoo tilbake på sporet

Chapter by Kristin Orgeret Skare and Florence Namasinga Selnes in Social Media and Elections in Africa, Volume 2: Women and Election Activism in Uganda: The Pads4Girls Social Media Campaign Abstract: This chapter draws on experiences from Uganda to interrogate social media’s potential to facilitate women’s participation in electoral processes. By taking the Pads4Girls campaign in… Continue reading New publication: Women and Election Activism in Uganda

During March OsloMet and the MEKK-group will organize two conferences together with Publish What you Pay Norway.   Global Investors Making Transparency Possible Date: 18th of March Time: 08:30 – 17:00 Where: Athene p46, OsloMet Finance Norway, Storebrand, NORSIF, KLP, Global Financial Integrity (GFI), Oslo Metropolitan University and PWYP Norway are hosting an investor conference 18th March 2020, in Oslo, Norway The… Continue reading Conference: MAKING TRANSPARENCY POSSIBLE

“There is a growing global consensus that the secrecy -havens -jurisdictions which undermine global standards for corporate and financial transparency – pose a global problem: they facilitate both money laundering and tax avoidance and evasion, contributing to crime and unacceptable high levels of global wealth inequality”  Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mark Pieth We seek to… Continue reading Online course: Making transparency possible

MEKK-medlem Kristin Skare Orgeret lanserer helt ny bok sammen med Anja Sletteland! Boka blir presentert onsdag 26. februar klokka 19.00 på Internasjonalen i Oslo. For mer informasjon klikk her Forlaget Manifest inviterer til panelsamtale og boksignering. I panelet: Kristin Skare Orgeret, forfatter Anja Sletteland, forfatter Sarah Sørheim, NTB Jens Kihl, Bergens Tidende Ordstyrer: Espen Aas,… Continue reading Ny bok: Giskesaken – og hvordan vi får #metoo tilbake på sporet

Work is under way in the truth and reconciliation commission for the Sami, Kvens (north Norwegians of Finnish descent) and Norwegian-Finns. South Africa also chose a truth and reconciliation commission rather than the courts after apartheid. What does it actually take to restore trust between people after centuries of conflict and oppression? And what role… Continue reading A difficult reconciliation. Conversation at the Bergen litteraturfestival.

MEKK-medlem Ingrid Fades var med på et seminar om den aktuelle situasjonen i Latin-Amerika organisert av Studentforeningen Inter tirsdag 21. januar ved Nord universitet i Bodø. Voldsomme protester og gateslag mellom demonstranter og styresmakter har preget landene i Latin-Amerika den senere tid. ​Stabiliteten man lenge assosierte med Latin-Amerika ser dermed ut til å ha raknet.… Continue reading Seminar: Latin-Amerika i flammer