Paghahabi is the Filipino term for weaving materials such as textile, mats, baskets. It also means the weaving or telling of stories.
In essence, paghahabi reflects the core competency of the AIJC, ie communication. This competency transmits truth, creates understanding, builds community. It brings together the diversity of warp and woof and interlaces them into a single colorful fabric of concord and trust.
Our e-newsletter Paghahabi tells AIJC’s stories. It reflects our efforts to promote understanding amidst diversity through our various communication programs and projects and to build a network of AIJC partners and stakeholders whose stories are intertwined with ours.
The AIJC is committed to weave a community committed to the common good and the best interest especially of marginalized sectors that need the comfort of a warm woven fabric.
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AIJC, UNESCO publish
ICT Reader
by Ann Lourdes C. Lopez
A Reader on Information and Communication Technology Planning for Development is now off the press.
The book is published by the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication and UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines with support from Intel and Microsoft. Originally published in 1998, the new edition is edited by Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid, Ramon R. Tuazon and Nora O. Gamolo.
In preparation for the AIJC-Gawad Kalinga (GK) Community Communication Project, the AIJC visited last 02 August 2007 two GK villages, ie Bagong Silang in Kalookan City and BASECO Compound in Tondo. After the visit and in consultation with GK officials, the AIJC decided to pilot the community communication project in BASECO.
These courts for Muslim Filipinos were established in 1985 to enforce the provisions of the Code of Muslim Personal Laws of the Philippines (CMPL), promulgated in 1977 and also known as P.D. 1083.
The AIJC Research and Development and Consultancy unit has completed the first phase of the communication component of the Rural Power Project, a World Bank-Global Environment Facility-Department of Energy program. A one-year project, the Strategic Communications and Investment Promotion Plans for the RPP also involved website development that links all stakeholders as well as students of renewable energy.
Two AIJC staff members joined 35 other stakeholders in a workshop to draft the Philippine Community eCenter Roadmap for 2010 held 29-31 August at the Boracay Regency Beach Resort. The 3-day workshop was convened by the Center for Information and Communications Technology (CICT) with funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada. It was facilitated by Dr. Elizabeth Manugue, Vice President of the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP).
Four new Trustees have been elected to the AIJC Board during its special board meeting on August 22, 2007. They are Next Mobile, Inc. CEO and The Velarde Group, Inc. president Mel V. Velarde, Next Mobile, Inc. president Lamberto Ramos, PWU Alumni Affairs, Marketing and Recruitment director Olivia Celeste Montecillo-Villafuerte, and Ateneo Psychology Department lecturer Maria Luisa Guinto-Adviento.
Radio program of former AIJC president up at Golden Dove Awards
by Nimfa Doroteo-Camua
Kalikasan, Kaunlaran!, a radio program directed and hosted by former AIJC president Dr. Corazon Claudio, has been nominated this year to the much-coveted KBP Golden Dove Awards. The program is co-produced by EARTH Institute Asia, Inc. and DZRH. It is aired on Wednesdays at 6:30-7:30 pm with the support and cooperation of various organizations, including the AIJC.
AIJC conducts training on content development for emergency knowledgebase
by Madeline B. Quiamco
The Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication recently conducted a UNESCO- funded training-workshop for 31 provincial, municipal, and city health unit heads, local government unit representatives of the six provinces of Region 8, and staff members of the Regional Disaster Coordinating Committee designated as health emergency managers (HEMs). The Training-Workshop on Content Development for a Disaster and Health Emergency Knowledgebase was conducted 06-10 August 2007 at the Center for Health Development in Palo, Leyte to develop content for a disaster and health emergency knowledgebase for Region 8.
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