The important thing to remember about 2021 is high media prominence. This year was not easy for journalism in general. However, it is worth noting the triumphs in journalism: both global ones (when journalists became 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates!) and regional ones (for the first time, a news agency from Central Asia became a winner along with such giants of the global media sphere as Reuters and The New York Times).
IWPR Central Asia continued its activities within the framework of its mission. The hybrid format allowed us to reach an even larger audience.
IWPR Central Asia continued its activities within the framework of its mission. The hybrid format allowed us to reach an even larger audience.
This year, we held the first regional Podcast Festival, created our online community, held another offline School of Analytics, and most importantly, launched a new project – Go Viral.
There were timely analytics, training, new courses, documentaries, festivals, meetups, journalistic labs, and much more. We present the annual digest of online (and not only) CABAR.asia events of 2021.
There were timely analytics, training, new courses, documentaries, festivals, meetups, journalistic labs, and much more. We present the annual digest of online (and not only) CABAR.asia events of 2021.
CABAR.asia
СABAR.asia continues to regularly publish analytical materials. In this section, we present a selection of materials about the most important events of 2021.
GO VIRAL
Starting from October 2021, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting Central Asia (IWPR CA) has started implementing the Go Viral project. The year ahead promises to be busy, full of important events and new content. In this digest, we share our first events' results and impressions.
Go Viral Country Ambassadors
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
What is Go Viral?
Go Viral Festival & Network: Go Viral is a regional initiative inspired by the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, that creates, facilitates, and sustains connections amongst regional influencers, innovators, and creative people to share ideas, help achieve their goals, and solve problems important to them and their communities. Go Viral is both a Festival and a series of events that includes keynote talks, workshops, panel discussions, films, music, and other activities in Media, Business, Culture, and Technology from leading trendsetters from the United States, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Go Viral hosts small events not only in Kazakhstan but also in other Central Asian countries throughout a year. The three-day Go Viral Festival takes place annually in Almaty, Kazakhstan and has been uniting leading thinkers and innovators from Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the United States in the fields of media, culture, business, and technology since 2017. The Go Viral network today consists of more than 5500 people including journalists, entrepreneurs, creative industries workers, civil society activists, and professionals from various fields who want to exchange experiences, ideas, and inspiration and be charged with positive energy for creating new projects and collaborations across the borders.
Go Viral is a project sponsored and supported by the United States Department of State and implemented in partnership with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting Central Asia. It provides people an opportunity to invent, create, promote their content, inform, entertain, and successfully interact with global audiences through social networks and new platforms using new technologies. The festival facilitates networking; inspires innovative ideas and creative collaborative projects; increases the visibility of local entrepreneurs; promotes cooperation across cultures and industries.
4 sectors
Business
Culture
Media
IT
School
of Analytics
of Analytics
The biggest event of 2021 was the Fourth School of Analytics held in Almaty on November 15-20, 2021.
The goal of the School is to improve the skills of creating analytical materials on relevant topics and issues of the Central Asian countries.
The special focus of the Fourth School – information wars.
The goal of the School is to improve the skills of creating analytical materials on relevant topics and issues of the Central Asian countries.
The special focus of the Fourth School – information wars.
Articles by the Fourth School of Analytics' Alumni
Expert Meetings
During the regional and international expert meetings held regularly by IWPR CA, we discussed a wide range of issues: from the problems of region's security in its various aspects (military aspect, borders and conflicts issues, food and information security in Central Asia) and human rights to the issues of transnational repression, and the prospects for the civil society development, including the problems it faced during the pandemic.
In addition, special attention was devoted to the discussion of the problems of water resources in the region, migration, and new demographic trends in Central Asia affecting the further development of the region in the coming decades.
In addition, special attention was devoted to the discussion of the problems of water resources in the region, migration, and new demographic trends in Central Asia affecting the further development of the region in the coming decades.
New Media
Documentaries
Articles
Content First
CABAR.asia Media School brings together content makers from the entire region. We have teamed up to create and produce quality content, improve the already available content, grow professionally as content makers, and develop our personal branding. We want to grow into a large community of like-minded people – content creators who implement joint cross-regional projects.
500
Chat participants
4
Meetups
7
Voice chats
1
Online Lab
CABAR.asia Media School
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