MICT - Media in Cooperation and Transition is a non-profit
media organization with offices in Berlin and Amman. MICT's activities comprise
the training of journalists and media producers, program and content development,
production of radio programs, films and books, as well as media monitoring
in crisis regions.
Since having been founded in early 2004, MICT has been implementing media projects on political and cultural topics in Iraq in cooperation with Iraqi activists, journalists, artists, and media producers.
Through its activities MICT is aiming to foster the transformation of conflict towards reconciliation and encourage dialogue among conflicting factions within society. Focal point is the interaction and interdependence of media and conflict. Supporting media cooperation, media networking and media development, as well as capacity building in the field of journalism is presumed to be key factor in conflict transition.
In the last years, the outcome of MICT's various projects included, for example, a network for the production and dissemination of radio reports on politics in Iraq (
Radio Reports RNN), a tri-lingual website on the political process in Iraq (
Niqash) and various publications on the situation and work of Iraqi artists (
Shahadat;
Under the Ashes). The creative interlinking of old technologies with new ones and of analog with digital media provides all these projects with a flexible communication and cooperation infrastructure.
MICT is financed and supported by the Belgian Foreign Ministry, the German Foreign Office, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, UNESCO, UNIFEM, UNAMI, the Government of Canada, and the Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies.