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		<title>TerraViva impact at  Durban COP 17</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[IPS Africa led a team of reporters that produced ten days of outstanding coverage of the climate change negotiations that took place in Durban, South Africa over the past weeks. During the last four days of the official negotiations a twelve-page printed TerraViva supplement was included daily as part of The New Age newspaper, distributed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ips.org/institutional/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/TVCOP17log.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3474" style="border: 0pt none; margin: 2px 10px;" title="TVCOP17log" src="http://www.ips.org/institutional/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/TVCOP17log-300x54.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="54" /></a>IPS Africa led a team of reporters that produced ten days of outstanding coverage of the climate change negotiations that took place in Durban, South Africa over the past weeks. During the last four days of the official negotiations a twelve-page printed <a href="http://www.ips.org/TV/cop17/" target="_blank">TerraViva</a> supplement was included daily as part of The New Age newspaper, distributed inside the conference hall to the delegates and to its usual readership across KwaZulu Natal province.</p>
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<p>The supplement also highlighted the work of an IPS partnership with South   Africa’s Media Development and Diversity Agency to support community media to cover COP17. Nine reporters from community newspapers across South   Africa attended IPS Africa training and then provided daily coverage of COP17 issues.</p>
<p>This coverage was complemented by a COP 17 side event in partnership with Durban University of Technology’s school of journalism to review community media coverage of climate change. “We are sitting on the deficit of knowledge in terms of understanding climate change,” said MDDA Board Member Phelisa Nkomo. Nkomo was joined on the panel by Ann Lamont, Greenpeace Africa Executive Director, and Paula Fray, Regional Director of Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa. Advocate Robin Sewlal, from the Durban University of Technology where the event took place, served as moderator.</p>
<p>Other African newspapers across the continent also welcomed the  coverage. Apart from the good print story uptake, the multi-media work  was well-received too. The daily radio diary was re-tweeted by UNDP’s  Helen Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand, just one of  hundreds of re-tweets sharing the IPS news out of Durban. In December  2011 IPS&#8217;s feed <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ipsenvironment" target="_blank">@ipsenvironment</a> was cited as one of the top 50 green experts to follow on twitter.<a href="http://www.ips.org/institutional/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tv9dic.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3476" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px 10px;" title="tv9dic" src="http://www.ips.org/institutional/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tv9dic.jpg" alt="" width="121" height="149" /></a></p>
<p>All the impact was premised on the IPS team of journalists and editors in Durban, Johannesburg, Montevideo and around the world working to make sense of everything that was happening on the ground. Read the final analysis of what was (not) achieved <a href="http://www.ips.org/TV/cop17/agreement-for-new-global-treaty-to-reduce-emissions/" target="_blank">Agreement for New Global Treaty To Reduce Emissions</a>, catch up on how <a href="http://www.ips.org/TV/cop17/category/community-media/" target="_blank">community media</a> covered the COP mentored by IPS, listen to <a href="http://www.ips.org/TV/cop17/category/podcasts/" target="_blank">podcasts</a> and browse pdf editions of the daily <a href="http://www.ips.org/TV/cop17/wp-content/library/2011/12/COP17-Terraviva-December-9.pdf" target="_blank">newspaper</a>.</p>
<p>IPS looks forward to continuing its focus on environment and  development at the Rio + 20 conference in Brazil in June 2012 and at COP  18 in Qatar.</p>
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		<title>El Director de IPS visita agencias de noticias del Golfo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; El Director General de IPS, Mario Lubetkin viajó al Golfo donde sostuvo reuniones en Qatar y en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos (EAU). En Qatar, el Director General de IPS se reunió con Ahmad Saad Abdel Al Boainin, Director General de la Agencia de Noticias Qatar (QNA) y su equipo, para explorar una cooperación [...]]]></description>
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<p>El Director General de IPS, Mario Lubetkin viajó al Golfo donde sostuvo reuniones en Qatar y en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos (EAU).</p>
<p>En Qatar, el Director General de IPS se reunió con Ahmad Saad Abdel Al Boainin, Director General de la Agencia de Noticias Qatar (QNA) y su equipo, para explorar una cooperación reforzada entre las dos agencias de noticias.</p>
<p>Además, Lubetkin se reunió con el Director de Noticias del canal árabe Al Jazeera, Mustafá Souag, y Shafaat Khan, Jefe de Operaciones Extranjeras en la Red Al Jazeera para evaluar la cooperación contínua y fortalecer la colaboración futura.</p>
<p>En los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Lubetkin visitó el Concejo de Medios Nacionales (NMC) para reunirse con personeros incluyendo el Director General de WAM (Agencia de Noticias de los Emiratos) Ibrahim Al-Abed. Lubetkin subrayó el excelente nivel de relaciones entre WAM e IPS y su estrecha colaboración durante las últimas décadas a través de acuerdos de cooperación específicos y de beneficio mutuo.</p>
<p>&#8220;Es importante abordar las nuevas realidades en el campo de la comunicación e información, en vista de los cambios geopolíticos que se están dando en el mundo&#8221;, enfatizó el Director General de IPS. &#8220;Los medios deben tener la habilidad de analizar estos fenómenos en un contexto, especialmente los medios en el Sur, lo cual significa que deben explicar a su audiencia cómo nuestra situación está cambiando&#8221;.</p>
<p>Lubetkin explicó porqué la Agencia de Noticias IPS decidió dedicar todo su trabajo profesional a generar análisis interpretativo indispensable en estos y otros fenómenos. &#8220;Creemos que ésta es la manera de ayudar a que la gente entienda mejor los eventos y los interprete&#8221;, añadió.</p>
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		<title>Los primeros 50 años de la vida de IPS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Los periodistas que volcaron el mundo. Voces de otra información” es el título de un libro publicado recientemente en Italia, que cuenta la historia de la agencia de noticias IPS – Inter Press Service. Es una historia coral contada por una centena de voces entre periodistas y personajes clave globales de los últimos 50 años. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ips.org/institutional/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Copertina_giornalisti_ribaltarono_mondo1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3384" title="Copertina_giornalisti_ribaltarono_mondo1" src="http://www.ips.org/institutional/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Copertina_giornalisti_ribaltarono_mondo1.jpg" alt="" width="125" height="180" /></a>“Los periodistas que volcaron el mundo. Voces de otra información” es el título de un libro publicado recientemente en Italia, que cuenta la historia de la agencia de noticias IPS – Inter Press Service.</p>
<p>Es una historia coral contada por una centena de voces entre periodistas y personajes clave globales de los últimos 50 años. Jefes de Estado, Premios Nobel y corresponsales durante mucho tiempo, relatan sus memorias personales de la historia diferente de IPS, hoy la agencia de noticias líder en asuntos de desarrollo, medio ambiente, derechos humanos y sociedad civil.<span id="more-3434"></span></p>
<p>El objetivo principal de IPS al crearse en 1964, era compensar el desequilibrio informativo entre Europa y América Latina a través de servicios especiales de noticias por correo postal. Fue con este objetivo que una cooperativa internacional de periodistas sin fines de lucro llamada IPS fue fundada por un economista ítalo-argentino,  Roberto Savio y un politólogo argentino, Pablo Piacentini.</p>
<p>A lo largo del tiempo, IPS adquirió una nueva misión: sostener las esperanzas de los países y pueblos del Tercer Mundo por un nuevo orden económico internacional y, como consecuencia, un nuevo orden mundial de la información y comunicación dentro del marco de las Naciones Unidas; en otras palabras, dar voz a los que no la tienen.</p>
<p>Para muchos observadores externos, ésta parecía una iniciativa utópica.</p>
<p>IPS siempre creyó en el papel de la información como un agente de cambio y como presupuesto para sacar comunidades de la pobreza y de la marginalización. Su misión histórica es de hecho “dar voz a los que no la tienen”, actuando como un canal de comunicación que privilegia las voces y preocupaciones de los más pobres y crea un clima de entendimiento, responsabilidad y participación en el desarrollo, promoviendo un nuevo orden informativo entre el Sur y el Norte.</p>
<p>“Desde la invención del telégrafo, las agencias globales de noticias han orientado – y condicionado – su propia visión del mundo, y su visión era un reflejo de los intereses de las naciones más poderosas” dijo Roberto Savio. “Después de la II Guerra Mundial, de hecho, 94% de los artículos sobre asuntos internacionales llegaban únicamente de cuatro fuentes: Associated Press, United Press International, Agence France Presse y Reuters. Su cobertura era básicamente limitada al dualismo de la Guerra Fría, sin espacio editorial para las nuevas realidades emergentes de la descolonización.”</p>
<p>Es desde aquellos tiempos que los periodistas de IPS informan sobre los procesos que hay detrás de los hechos, como siendo el único lente posible para la lectura del cambio de escenario global.</p>
<p>Ignacio Ramonet, un viejo amigo de IPS, define la agencia de noticias como una voz válida y original en esta convulsión actual de los medios de información. “Esto demuestra que, aún en este nuevo contexto digital de la información, ésta forma de resistencia es posible,” dijo.</p>
<p>Muchas cosas han cambiado desde los tiempos de la comunicación por correo postal y télex, pero no las desigualdades y los desequilibrios que fueron la razón del origen de IPS. Nuevos medios de comunicación e información, no sólo traen consigo nuevos peligros de alienación y discriminación, sino también nuevas oportunidades para hacer del proceso de comunicación un verdadero intercambio horizontal entre pueblos y naciones.</p>
<p>“IPS ha siempre privilegiado la visión de la sociedad civil ante las grandes personalidades y poderes, pero ahora más que nunca, la manera como nosotros vemos (y leemos) el mundo, es horizontal”, escribe Mario Lubetkin, Director General de IPS desde 2002. “Nosotros no consideramos la comunicación y la información como una simple relación entre el que envía el mensaje y aquel que lo recibe, es más bien una circulación interactiva de comunicación, ahora aún más inmediata gracias a la internet.”</p>
<p>Lubetkin escribe que el desafío siguiente de IPS es la adaptación a un mundo de la información en continua mutación manteniendo los valores originales de su misión, bien reflejados en la cobertura del libro, donde se representa un mundo patas arriba.</p>
<p>El libro fue lanzado en Florencia a principios de noviembre, y una versión en inglés está siendo preparada para el próximo año.</p>
<p>Hoy, la página de IPS cuenta con 50 millones de visitas por mes, y artículos distribuidos en 21 idiomas que llegan a más de 5,000 medios de comunicación globales.</p>
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		<title>IPS Director visits News Agencies in the Gulf</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; IPS Director General, Mario Lubetkin, travelled to the Gulf, where he held meetings in Qatar and United Arab Emirates (UAE). In Qatar IPS Director General met Ahmad Saad Abdel Al Boainin, Director General of Qatar News Agency (QNA) and his staff, to explore enhanced cooperation between the two news agencies. Furthermore, Lubetkin met Al [...]]]></description>
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<p>IPS Director General, Mario  Lubetkin, travelled to the Gulf, where he held meetings in Qatar and United Arab  Emirates (UAE).</p>
<p>In Qatar IPS Director General met Ahmad Saad Abdel Al  Boainin, Director General of Qatar News Agency (QNA) and his staff, to explore enhanced  cooperation between the two news agencies.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Lubetkin met Al  Jazeera Arabic Channel&#8217;s Director of the News, Mustafa Souag, and Shafaat Khan,  Head of Foreign Operations, Al-Jazeera Network to evaluate ongoing cooperation  and strengthen future collaboration.</p>
<p>In the UAE Lubetkin visited the  National Media Council (NMC) to meet officials including WAM (Emirates News  Agency) Director General, Ibrahim Al-Abed. Lubetkin underlined the excellent  level of relations between WAM and IPS and their close collaboration during the  last decades through specific cooperation agreements of mutual  benefit.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is important to tackle the new realities in the field of  communication and information, in view of the geopolitical changes that are  taking place in the world,&#8221; IPS Director General stressed. &#8220;The media should  have the ability to analyse these phenomena in a context, especially media in  the South, which means that they must explain to their audience how our  situation is changing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lubetkin explained why IPS news agency decided to devote all its  professional work to generating the indispensable interpretive analysis of these  and other phenomena. &#8220;This is the way we believe can help people better  understand the events and interpret them,&#8221; he added.</p>
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		<title>IPS Honours the legacy of Prof. Alfred Opubor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IPS deeply regrets the passing away of Professor Alfred Opubor, an internationally renowned specialist in the field of communication and member of IPS Africa Board of Directors, in early December in Cotonou, Benin. Prof. Opubor&#8217;s expertise was communication theories and message systems, and their applications in development. A former university professor and head of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3416" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 218px"><a href="http://www.ips.org/institutional/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Aopubor.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3416 " title="Aopubor" src="http://www.ips.org/institutional/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Aopubor-233x300.jpg" alt="" width="208" height="268" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Prof. Alfred Opubor. Credit: Courtesy Adea-Comed website.</p></div>
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<p>IPS deeply regrets the passing away of Professor Alfred Opubor, an internationally renowned specialist in the field of communication and member of IPS Africa Board of Directors, in early December in Cotonou, Benin.</p>
<p>Prof. Opubor&#8217;s expertise was communication theories and message systems, and their applications in development. A former university professor and head of the department of mass communication, he was also a researcher, government policy adviser and senior communication specialist in the United Nations system.<span id="more-3414"></span></p>
<p>His expertise in strategic communication has been requested by several national, regional and international organisations, especially within the United Nations system for many years.</p>
<p>Moreover, Prof. Opubor was Senior Consultant to the Chairman of the African Union Commission, he was Coordinator of the ADEA Working Group on Communication for Education and Development (WG COMED), where he contributed to the setting up and consolidation of the Working Group COMED and the Africa Education Journalism Award.</p>
<p>Since 2003 until his death in December  2011, he was Secretary-General of the WANAD Centre in Cotonou.</p>
<p>IPS colleagues in Africa remember him:</p>
<p>Farai Samhungu, IPS Africa Board member and former Regional Director</p>
<p>&#8220;I received the news of Prof Alfred Opubor with great shock and sadness. Prof. Opubor was a man of great commitment. He was generous with his knowledge in communication, media and education that he acquired through his many years of service in Africa and abroad.</p>
<p>My first meeting with Prof. Opubor was  through a job interview with UNFPA in Zimbabwe. I got the job. I remember him telling that one of his passions was to create spaces for the career development for young African female professionals. I was privileged to be one of those young women (then). True to his word, he provided me with mentorship and support as I found my ground, helping me to conceptualise projects and to get comfortable with the UN&#8217;s ways.</p>
<p>After I joined IPS, one of my tasks was to strengthen IPS presence in Africa by identifying men and women with expertise and knowledge to help achieve the organisation&#8217;s mandate in Africa. We invited Prof. Opubor to join the IPS Africa board of directors, an invitation he agreed to take on graciously. He served on the board and continued to share his knowledge generously while at the same time opening up spaces for IPS Africa to link up with strategic organisations that were part of his network across.</p>
<p>His passing has robbed IPS Africa of a man of immense wisdom and commitment. But like fellow board member Emily Brown says, Prof. Opubor would like us to continue to serve IPS Africa dilligently and to continue with work that needs doing. That way, we will honour the legacy of a man who continued to shine, who refused to be slowed by age and whose laughter was most infectious.</p>
<p>May your soul rest in peace Prof. Opubor.&#8221;</p>
<p>Govin Reddy, current Chair of the IPS Africa Board</p>
<p>&#8220;Alfred was a larger than life man with that captivating smile and energetic personality. A serious intellectual committed to the IPS philosophy, Alfred will be sorely missed.&#8221;</p>
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