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.

Development Communication and Knowledge Society

Is a course on Development Communication still relevant in today’s Knowledge Society? How can communication officers use ipods, blogs, YouTube and other new media as tools in development work? Can community e-centers replace the traditional barangay library?

AIJC undertakes futuristic study review

by Ramon R. Tuazon

“The Future is embedded in the present.”
John Naisbitt, Mind Set! , 2006

In 1997, the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) with support of UNICEF coordinated the pioneering study, Megatrends: The Future of Filipino Children. The study attempted to define a vision for the Filipino adult and a scenario for the Filipino family in the Year 2020 by tracking and analyzing issues and trends affecting the Filipino child in the 1990s and how these would affect the future of the child 25 years hence. The “megatrends” observed in the study formed the bases for scenarios and policy recommendations.

AIJC conducts another round of seminar-workshop
for Petron staff

A seminar-workshop on effective business writing was conducted by AIJC for 33 employees of Petron Corporation. Held at the Petron Megaplaza in Makati City on September 20 and 21, the seminar-workshop enabled the staff to use writing as an organizational communication tool. It showed the participants how effective business writing could be used to enhance the process of communication in the organization.

AIJC has new Graduate School Associate Dean

The AIJC Board of Trustees recently appointed Dr. Madeline Quiamco as the new associate dean for the AIJC Graduate School.

AIJC completes flipchart on rights of women and children

AIJC has completed the preparation and production of a flipchart on the rights of and laws protecting women and children.