ABOUT US

DW AKADEMIE

Free Media.
Free Expression.
Free Societies.

DW Akademie is Deutsche Welle’s center for international media development, journalism training and knowledge transfer. Our projects strengthen the human right to freedom of expression and unhindered access to information. DW Akademie empowers people worldwide to make independent decisions based on reliable facts and constructive dialogue.

DW Akademie is a strategic partner of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. We also receive funding from the Federal Foreign Office and the European Union and are active in 60 developing countries and emerging economies.

We strengthen sustainable development through media

We are journalists, consultants and experts in media and education. Together with our partners, we work to promote free expression, human rights and the development of functioning media systems worldwide. We believe that journalism, education and culture improve people’s lives. Powerful stories support positive social dialogue. People need reliable facts, independent analysis, unbiased presentation and universal access to knowledge.

Our understanding of media development

Our work centers on Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which proclaims freedom of expression and access to information as a basic human right. Free expression is the prerequisite for people to use reliable information and exchange ideas with others.

DW Akademie in the Middle East/North Africa

Three forces are shaping media development in the Arab world: political power, economic interests and the digital revolution. Politicians and businesses have a monopoly on the first two areas; the digital revolution for its part offers a platform for diversity, creativity and room for freedom. The digital change is motivating young Arabs, and young people matter in a region where half of the population is younger than the age of 25.

In this part of the world as elsewhere, information available on the Internet can be extremely helpful, but it can also be misleading or manipulated. That’s why one of DW Akademie’s key focuses is on teaching people how to be critical when using online media, whether in Tunisian youth centers, Lebanese schools or Jordanian community centers. Another focus is on strengthening services that deliver content for media-critical, confident youths. From Morocco to the Gulf Region, capacity building is an important foundation for independent-thinking journalists.

At DW Akademie, we see our task as building regional management expertise and creating networks using international expertise. We develop concepts together with our regional partners.

Al Khatt

Al Khatt is a Tunisian non-profit NGO founded in 2013. It works for freedom of the press and expression and aims to be a laboratory of ideas and a space for reflection on the future of journalism in the Internet age.

Within the organization, Al Khatt conducts a global reflection on both the production of journalistic content and how to spread and share it. Al Khatt is implementing actions aimed at:

develop and promote freedom of the press and freedom of expression;
work for independent, high-quality information that is useful to the citizen;
innovate and reinvent the relationship between information content creators and the citizen;
create technological tools for information, citizen participation and access to information;
work for media education and training in techniques for the production of information content;
advise, support and deliver data management and journalistic work tools to organizations and media in Tunisia and around the world.

Al Khatt strongly believes that the right to free and quality information is a fundamental right of citizens and that action for freedom of the press, freedom of expression and access to information means action to establish a democratic and transparent system in Tunisia.