INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTRE KURDISTAN

The 26 students of Media bo Khalk, the post graduate training of IMCK in Erbil, started their first training by a trainer from outside. Awene webdesigner and IMCK co-trainer Sardasht Aziz teaches them three days on the basics of internet. What is internet, how does it work, what can you use it for, how to email, how to use google, etc He is being assisted by Hassan Salah, a former student of last year´s Media bo Khalk.

IMCK-trainers on March 8th started in Irbil on a 7 day training with editors and makers of internet sites. Fifteen makers joined Marco Visser (from the website of the Dutch paper Trouw) and co-trainer Ako Mohamed at the building of Irex, to be taught about how to make sites that are more interesting for the public and are not competing with the (mother) newspaper. They also talked about technical aspects of making sites, and of ways to make sites more attractive for advertisers. The training was made possible by funding by the Dutch ngo Hivos.