The African universities of communication of Ouagadougou (UACO)

The African universities of communication in Ouagadougou.

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By: Sayouba Traoré

2 min

Created in 2004, the UACO bring together players in the media and communication world on current issues.

It is about bringing together specialists, researchers, teachers, novice journalists and students, the general public, in order to generate a sharing of experiences.

This year 2021 marks the twelfth edition of the African universities of communication in Ouagadougou.

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The media world in Africa has undergone many changes.

First, the creation of private media broke state monopoly.

The birth and development of New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) have been dazzling in African countries.

Through these new channels, both literate and non-literate have become actors and consumers of information.

The health crisis due to Covid-19, and the security crisis in many countries, have accentuated the upheavals.

The citizen is requesting information.

At the same time, both the reader and the listener have become suspicious.

To this must be added false information, served to an audience that does not know how to distinguish between things.

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Guests

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Journalist, scholar, member of the UNESCO chair, director of the Pan-African Institute for Study and Research on Media, Information and Communication.

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Journalist, researcher in information and communication sciences, initiator of the Institute of Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, co-founder of the first online media in Burkina Faso,

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, Ivorian journalist, writer and media man.

Production: Sayouba Traoré

Director: Ewa Piedel

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