It's a little past 8:30 in the morning, as I'm preparing my last day of teaching at the Caucasus Institute. Today, the students will be finishing their blog post at our project blog, which subsequently will go live. For now, I'll just post a couple of photos, primarily of groups of students working on an assignment. You can click them to see larger versions on Flickr.

For a full week, I have the privilege to teach 17 Journalism students of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan, Armenia, all about web journalism. The institute has the name for a reason: its students are not only from Armenia but from Georgia, Azerbeidzjan, Ossetia and Chechnya as well. Obviously, there is a lot to explain, discuss and demonstrate: there are more books published about how the Web is changing journalism than one could read in a lifetime - although most authors tend to agree on one thing: the future of journalism is online.

The Independent Media Centre in Kurdistan (IMCK ) offers training to journalists of all media, consultancy to editors and management, workshops for photographers, English for journalists, Internet courses for newspaper sites and Media training to politicians.
Follow the latest developments of this Media Centre at http://imckiraq.blogspot.com/

BAMIYAN (12 Nov.) – Afghanistan has its first mobile radio station built in a Suisse truck. The station is a joint project of the Bamiyan University located northwest of the capital Kabul and the Press Now Foundation. It will cater for the communities in rural areas not covered by other stations. Dean of the University of Bamiyan, dr. Yusufi Ali opened the station with a welcome to all the people living in the valley. His voice was heard up to a distance of nearly 20 kilometers. Cordaid funds the project, a Dutch based international development agency, specialized in emergency aid and reconstruction support.