On June 28, 2019, a meeting of international and Kazakhstani experts on media and information literacy(MIL) was held in Almaty.In the morning, Pavel Bannikov, editor-in-chief of FactCheck.kz, the author of the course FactCheckAcademy, told colleagues about modern information verification tools and actualized an importance ofmedia literacy for Kazakhstani school students.Onwards, experts discussed in a round …

From 26 till 31 August in 2018 40 professional journalists and editors from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistanlearned the basics and practices of fact-checking and international news coverage.Training participants were selected among the major media of Central Asia – Informburo.kz, Sputnik.kz, “Radio“Azattyk ”, kaktus.media, holanews.kz, today.kz, Kursiv.kz,“ Week of the UK ”,“ Komsomolskaya Pravda inKazakhstan ”, …

Albany Associates International and IREX Europe regional project on the development of pluralism and impartialityin media and media literacy among Central Asian audiences with the support of the British Embassy in Astanaannounces a competition for international news and editorial media in Central Asia The competition accepts materials (textual and multimedia), created in the form of …

[:en]In Kazakhstan, an influential international annual publication “Project Syndicate: What Carries the Year2019? Great Disruption” has been published in Kazakh and Russian languages. The project was carriedout by the International Center of Journalism MediaNet and the first Central Asian factual resourceFactcheck.kz with the support of the Soros -Kazakhstan Foundation. Among the authors of the Great …

In June 2019, the International Center of Journalism MediaNet with the support of the RepresentativeOffice of the Foundation named after Konrad Adenauer in Kazakhstan had launched a new long-termproject on computer skills, Internet literacy training and raising awareness about dual education in theregions of Kazakhstan. Young people of Mangistau received basic business skills. In the …

In August 2018, the International Center of Journalism MediaNet with the support of the RepresentativeOffice of the Foundation named after Konrad Adenauer in Kazakhstan had launched a new long-termproject on computer skills and Internet literacy training and raising awareness about dual education inthe regions of Kazakhstan. Youth of Stepnogorsk was the first to receive basic …

In October 2018, , the International Center of Journalism MediaNet with the support of theRepresentative Office of the Foundation named after Konrad Adenauer in Kazakhstan had launched anew long-term project on computer skills and Internet literacy training and raising awareness about dualeducation in the regions of Kazakhstan. Young people of Kostanay received basic business skills. …

In September 2018, , the International Center of Journalism MediaNet with the support of theRepresentative Office of the Foundation named after Konrad Adenauer in Kazakhstan had launched anew long-term project on computer skills and Internet literacy training and raising awareness about dualeducation in the regions of Kazakhstan. The youth of Alakol received basic business skills. …

30-31 May, 2019, Almaty – X Central Asian Forum on the Development of Internet – InternetCA-2019The event is traditionally held by MediaNet International Centre for Journalism with the partnership andsupport of OSCE Programme Office in Astana and Konrad Adenauer Foundation.The theme of the Forum is Digital Literacy: Competence, Security, ConsumptionThe main issues are:– main technological and …

Factcheck.kz is resource to verify the accuracy of information published in the media, posted in social networks andstatements of people. Since 2017, editors have been struggling with news and fake information in the media space.Factchecking works in Kazakh and Russian languages. It is planning to add options in another language. In general,the content is very …