AIJC President Ramon R. Tuazon was recently appointed UNESCO consultant by the UNESCO Regional Office based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

UNESCO Regional Director, Dr. Hubert Gijzen, said that Mr. Tuazon is expected to provide the UNESCO perspective in the Philippine Common Country Assessment (CCA) and UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) which the Philippine UN Country Team is now preparing.

AIJC, UPOU bag telecentre.org Curriculum Commons Grant

The Asian Institute of Journalism and Communications (AIJC) and University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), active members of the Philippine Community eCenter Network and the CeC Academy, are among thirteen institutions worldwide chosen as recipients of the telecentre.org  Curriculum Commons Grant.

tPCA Charter Ratified

The charter of the telecentre.org–Philippine CeC Academy (tPCA), the consortium of capability-building institutions involved in the delivery of ICT for Development and CeC-related training programs, has been ratified. The ratification was done on August 6, during a special meeting of the academy’s founding partners at the CICT-NCC office  in Quezon City. .

Books from donors

AIJC has recently received more than 100 books from four international development agencies, namely, the International Labour Organization, World Health Organization, World Bank and Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

Nine professionals working in different areas in government and private organizations attended the AIJC Seminar-Workshop on Effective Technical Writing and Editing on August 4-5. Held at Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan City, the seminar-workshop is part of the continuing professional education program offered by AIJC to the public.