recent activities
September 2023
PCMS participated in a conference addressing accessibility and people with hearing impairments organised by ASNEP and DeafFriendly.
July 2023
PCMS worked with the Democracy Protection Network initiative to assess the key trends, risks and opportunities for democracy in 2022.
June 2023
PCMS took part in the international "Media and Ukraine" conference, organized by Czech Public Radio (Český rozhlas) as part of its 100th anniversary celebrations.
April 2023
PCMS joined a course organised by the Czech Ministry of Defense to equip journalists with the skills needed to work safely in combat or other extreme situations.
March 2022
Collaboration with Lucie Bihellerová on e-learning against disinformation for the Czech Environmental Information Agency (CENIA).
December 2022
PCMS shared its views on media and technology at the "EU Screen 2022 Translating Media Pasts" conference.
November 2022
Armenian NGO Democracy Today invited PCMS to participate in the 10th international "Women's Shared Security in Our Modern World" conference in Yerevan.
October 2022
PCMS and its consortium partners presented the results of their survey on digitalisation and people with special needs at the Czech-Norwegian conference "Media and Human Rights in the Digital Age".
May 2022
PCMS Projects’ Director met with the UN Human Rights Council President Federico Villegas in Prague.
March 2022
PCMS and its consortium partners conducted qualitative research with people with special needs to assess the impact of technology on their lives.
news and publications
- Following the 2023 undergraduate course on human rights in the digital age, a set of study texts, including PCMS contributions, was published (July 7, 2023).
- PCMS produced two instalments of a 2-part video course targeted at media professionals to increase understanding of the impact of digitalisation and new technologies on human rights (June 16, 2023).
- PCMS released its Annual Report for 2022, available in both English and Czech (May 15, 2023).
- As part of its contribution to the “Promoting Human Rights in the Digital Era” project, PCMS gave its third lecture in a series of 13 for undergraduate students of journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University, Prague. The lecture focused on the impact of digitalisation and new technologies on human rights (April 26, 2023).
- Training for humanitarian and media workers in crisis contexts (April 17, 2023)
- Collaboration with the Czech Environmental Information Agency on content for its e-learning against disinformation webpages (April 3, 2023).
- The second PCMS lecture to journalism students at Charles University covered the impact of modern technologies on people with special needs (March 29, 2023).
- Our opening PCMS lecture at Charles University took place with accessibility specialist Mariana Chytilova as guest speaker (March 22, 2023).
- PCMS was on the jury of the Czech Event Association Awards (March 21, 2023).
- Interview in Russian for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty – Монополия на информацию. Война и свобода мнений в России (February 7, 2023).
- Czech media workers do not trust technology companies (November 30, 2022).
- Are human rights respected in the digital world? Report (October 27, 2022).
- Public presentation of research results from the “Promoting Human Rights in the Digital Era” project (October 14, 2022).
- Prague conference: Europe Tackles Information Chaos: Report (October 01, 2022).
- “You’ll Find It on the Internet.” Research findings from the “Promoting Human Rights in the Digital Era” project (June 6, 2022).
- Press release, ‘Promoting Human Rights in the Digital Era‘ goes live (March 15,2022).
Promoting human rights in the digital era – European Digital Rights (EDRi)
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“You’ll find it on the internet.” How digitalisation impacts the lives of people whose voices often go unheard – European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Média a lidská práva v digitální době: kolokvium, 24. 10. 2022 – POSLEPU
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