INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTRE KURDISTAN

The Independent Media Centre in Kurdistan works to develop media and empower minorities and women in Iraq. IMCK offers training to journalists of all media, consultancy to editors and management, workshops for photographers, Internet courses for newspaper sites and Media training to politicians. In 2009 IMCK started his first postgraduate course, Media bo Khalk, for students from the whole of Iraq. (( المركز الاعلامي المستقل في كردستان منظمة تهتم بتطوير الاعلام وقضايا الاقليات والمرأة في العراق))

The training on Social media for Kurdish Journalists Sullaymaniya February 2015 In order to help Kurdish journalists IMCK organized training for journalists about “ Social media for Kurdish Journalists ”: Sullaymaniya 11, 12, 13 February. The content of the training: Before we beginning of the training I sent the email for 350 persons when they work on TV, Radio, websites, newspape.and there are 38 persons sent to us CV, after that we chose him. Who is they need and will be interesting about the training finely we selected 14 Journalists The Journalists from One in Erbil One in Darbandikhan One in Sharazwer, and eleven from Sulaimanyah . Trainer: Sardasht Aziz Days of the training: 3 days. In the first day of the training the trainer talked about Facebook and how you create own page and the list it will be easy for Journalists to put the subjects and the article on a page to see people in an easy way. In the second day , they continue facebook page till 12

In order to raise awareness among journalists of the importance of minorities in Iraq and Kurdistan, IMCK has started its first (out of three) workshop(s) on minorities in Iraq. Journalist, writer and trainer Sa’ad Salloum opens the first session by introducing the journalists to the different topics that are related to the rich diversity that can be found in Iraq's ethnic, cultural and religious landscape.  Most of the participant are, besides journalist, belonging to a minority group themselves. At this first day, Sa'ad  has lectured on, inter alia, the complexities and problems of  minorities in Iraq, minorities rights in Iraqi law and the possible implications of the International Human Rights Declaration. >IMCK likes to thank the British Foreign & Common Wealth Office and the British Embassy in Iraq for funding this workshop<

The first part of IMCK workshop on Knowledge Awareness of Oil and Gas finishes in Kalar Ali Ghazi from Nature Iraq explains how oil and gas impact on the environment and IMCK journalism trainer Khaled Suleiman helps the journalists develop story ideas.   Part 2 of the workshop is in Sulaymaniya in December.  Experts on  oil and gas will give information to help journalists become more specialized on the topic. 

Journalists specializing in reporting on oil and gas begin a four day training workshop in Kalar. Each day an expert gives a presentation on   the topic, and journalists work to develop story ideas . Journalists are from the main TV Radio   Newspapers and Internet websites in the Garmiyan Region, Sulaymaniya and Erbil. Today they learn how oil fields are developed and oil is taken from the ground. The workshop   is supported by Western Zagross.