News and press statements
Regulatory framework on Artificial Intelligence key to improving access to information
As Africa catches up with the rest of the world, there is a need for a human-rights-based approach to developing AI policies that promote access to information and improved e-Governance.
Digital Rights School: Digital rights from a feminist perspective
The Digital Rights School is targeting individuals from civil society, government, media or the legal profession in Zimbabwe. The training will be conducted virtually.
Cyber Violence against Female Journalists in Southern Africa
The survey forms part of MISA’s evidence-based advocacy to ensure the safety of journalists. It builds on international and regional efforts to ensure online safety for female journalists.
MISA Malawi appears before Parliament on broadcasting licences
MISA Malawi highlighted that the general economic crisis the country is experiencing has not spared the media sector.
MISA Zimbabwe and MAZ engagement meeting on the telecommunications traffic monitoring system
The Zimbabwean government, through the Ministry of ICTs, gazetted Statutory Instrument 95 of 2021 to bring into effect the TTMS. The TTMS was launched in May 2022 and is now being used by POTRAZ, the sector’s regulator.
Concern over attempts to capture MISA
The young woman was part of a horde of newbies who, according to journalists at the meeting, had their membership subscriptions paid for by one of several controversial, influence-peddling entities around town, so that they could vote for one or the other of the candidates bidding for the chairmanship and other positions.
MISA Botswana holds AGM, postpones elections
This is a communique on the MISA Bostwana AGM and postponed elections.
Concern over the revocation of broadcasting licences in Malawi
This is a letter to His Excellency the President of the Republic of Malawi Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera on the Concern over the revocation of broadcasting licences in Malawi.
Reporting on Illicit Finance in Africa (Bulawayo)
MISA Zimbabwe, of the Media Institute of Southern Africa in partnership with Thomson Reuters Foundation, are looking for Zimbabwean journalists who are motivated to understand how their country could be losing money via illicit means.