Nii Martey M. Botchway
Kolkata, India, July 1, GNA – Participants at the second India Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) training programme for media and allied practitioners are to explore the ethical challenges in Artificial Intelligence driven news.
The programme, News and Current Affairs using State of the Art Tools Iteration II, which opened Monday July 1, 2024 is being organized in partnership with the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI).
Other areas of focus for the training include: the foundational tenets of news reporting and journalism ethics; interviewing techniques; examining different news styles and exploring various news platforms.
The three-week programme financed by the Indian government through the ITEC will, also, offer participants the opportunity to build their capacities and share ideas.
Also included in the programme are practical lessons that will provide hands-on experience in a news studio setup for participants to learn production control skills through coordinated practice.
Each participant is expected to create a short news bulletin at the end of the course.
In all, eleven participants from Armenia, Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Guyana, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru and Syria, including Ghana News Agency’s Nii Martey M. Botchway are participating in the programme.
Welcoming participants to the programme, Prof Samiran Datta, Director of the SRFTI, said the course had been tailored to help participants develop creative ideas for audio-visual storytelling.
He noted that the faculty members of the institute were people with experience, in-depth knowledge, and skills on the various subjects, and urge the participants to talk advantage of the opportunity and make the most of it.
The Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute is a Central Autonomous Institute under Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Named after the legendary Indian film maestro Satyajit Ray, the Institute has emerged as a national center of excellence which offers post graduate programme in cinematic studies.
The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme is a bilateral assistance programme of the Government of India that focuses on addressing the needs of developing countries through innovative technological cooperation.
The programme which covers over 160 countries across Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Pacific and Caribbean nations, has since 2015 trained over 225,000 professionals from around the globe.
GNA