Voice of Youth Project

A video competition is now being organised by the NGO We Love Mauritius with a focus on the question: How do we develop an ecologically sustainable society in Mauritius?

Details of the project from the website:
The objective of the Voice of Youth project is to raise awareness about threats to such a society (such as climate change, scarcity of natural resources, degradation of ecosystems, perturbation of global trade and financial systems, dislocation within fragile societies due to inequalities) and initiate channels of peer-to-peer communication to enable collective responses.

The competition is targeted at media students, themed around Maurice Ile Durable and is intended to permit our youth to voice concerns they have, especially about the future. It is a pilot and the main competition will be open to all youth next year with the involvement of the private sector to enable children from deprived backgrounds to participate.

The closing deadline for submission is 22nd January 2010. Pre-selection of the finalists will be done by the public based on the popularity of the videos on YouTube, hence the sooner they are uploaded the better.

Details of the competition can be found at http://welovemauritius.org/voy/11

1st Prize worth Rs 20 000
2nd Prize worth Rs 10 000
3rd Prize worth Rs 5 000
Best overall contribution from educational institution: HD camera worth Rs 30 000

If you are interested in forming part of a team under the banner of UOM, please let me know by email (chanssc@uom.ac.mu).

L’Education au XXIe siècle (Joël Vallat)

Voici un entretien avec Joël Vallat, Proviseur du Lycée Louis Le Grand (France), réalisé le 27 octobre à l’Université de Maurice suite à sa conférence sur ‘L’Education au XXIè siècle et former à l’excellence’. La conférence était organisée par le Département de Français de la Faculté des Sciences Sociales et Humaines en collaboration avec l’Ambassade de France.

Lors de cette conférence, Joël Vallat a évoqué les modèles pédagogiques qui font l’objet de débats dans l’éducation, à savoir, le modèle de la raffinerie (élitiste) et le modèle de la pépinière (inclusif) ainsi que la rupture apportée par les nouvelles technologies (opportunités et menaces).

Openings at Le Matinal

The daily newspaper ‘Le Matinal’ is looking for people to be recruited as reporters (as trainees in the first instance).

If you are interested in this opening, please contact Mr Ravin Lama, Chief Executive of AAPCA on his email address at:
ravin.l@apcaglobal.com

Ellen Hume’s slides

As promised, here are Ellen Hume’s slides which she had used for her presentation on 22nd October at the University. Her talk was entitled ‘News Media, New Media and Elections’

Click here to download her presentation slides in pdf.

A video was also recorded and we will try to upload it once it is edited.

Talk on News Media, New Media and Elections

The US Embassy in collaboration with the Communication Studies Unit of FSSH is organisinf a talk on the above theme by Ellen Hume, US Media expert, on Thursday, October 22, 2009 from 12 30-14 00 hours at the University of Mauritius.

The talk will the held in the old Engineering Building in Lecture Theatre 1 (to access, take the lift in the New Engineering Tower to the second floor, then take the long corridor on the left. LT1 is on the right at the end of the corridor).

Mrs. Ellen Hume is visiting Mauritius under the U.S. Department of State’s Speaker Program. The main theme of her program in Mauritius is: Press Freedom and Journalism Ethics.

Ellen Hume is an Annenberg Fellow in Civic Media at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University in Budapest. Until June 2009, she was research director of the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT. Hume founded the Center on Media and Society at UMass Boston in 2004 in order to work with students and community media. She is a writer and lecturer about journalism journalism’s role in democracy; the Internet; civic engagement and ethics.

All are welcome.

Professional Profile of Ellen Hume

Diksioner Morisien d’Arnaud Carporan

Arnaud Carporan ek so lekip pe faire ene lapel pou kontribision dans zot deziem edision diksioner kreol morisien.

Check ban detay lor mo blog lor:
http://christinameetoo.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/diksioner-morisien-darnaud-carporan/

Maiden Games 2009

This is the first time in Mauritian universities’ history that an inter-tertiary competition is being organised by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

The Universities involved are as follows:
- University of Mauritius (UOM)
- IVTB
- Institut Superieur de Technologie (IST)
- University of Technology (UTM)
- JR School
- Swami Dayanand Institute of Management (SDIM)
- Mauritius Institute of Education (MIE).

The football preliminaries are as follows (further info about other pools and scores will be updated):

- 08 Oct 2009- UOM (A) vs IVTB (B)  [Final score 13-0]
- 08 Oct 2009- UOM (B) vs IVTB (A) [Full time score 4-0]
- 13 Oct 2009 at MFA House Trianon- UOM (B) vs IST  [10hrs]
- 15 Oct 2009 at MFA House Trianon- UOM (A) vs UTM [10hrs]
- 30 Oct 2009 at CNFF Reduit- FINAL [noon].

Volleyball (Man) Fixtures [the following matches will be played at UOM Gymnasium]

- 09 Oct 2009- UOM vs JR School [10hrs]
- 14 Oct 2009- UOM vs IST [11hrs]
- 20 Oct 2009- UOM vs MIE [10hrs]
- 23 Oct 2009- UOM vs Swami Dayanand [10hrs]

Volleyball (Woman) Fixtures [Venue: UOM GYmnasium]

- 15 Oct 2009- UOM vs JR School [10hrs]
- 27 Oct 2009- UOM vs MIE [10hrs]

Basketball (Woman) Fixtures [Venue: UOM GYmnasium]

- 13 Oct 2009- UOM vs MIE [13hrs30]
- 16 Oct 2009- UOM vs JR School [13hrs30]
- 29 Oct 2009- FINAL [13hrs30]

Basketball (Man) Fixtures

Not Available

Badminton (Single woman, single man, double man, double woman, double mix) Fixtures [Venue: National Badminton Centre]

- 1st Round- 22nd Oct 2009 [10hrs]
- 2nd Round- 23rd Oct 2009 [10hrs].

UOM athletes are expecting UOM’s staff and students’ support.

Yaveen
Yr4.

Also on Write or wrong

Magazine : Scènes de ménage (TV5 Monde)

A voir ce jeudi 1er octobre, 20h45 sur MBC 2

Au sommaire:
SMS et Internet : attention au harcèlement ! Les cas de harcèlement par SMS ou par Internet se multiplient. Insultes, menaces, diffusion d’un numéro de portable sur un site pour adultes, usurpation d’adresse e-mail, publication de photos prises au téléphone portable, ces actes sont désormais monnaie courante. Cela se produit la plupart du temps dans le cas de ruptures sentimentales. L’une des deux personnes ne supporte pas la séparation et se met à harceler l’autre et à lui pourrir la vie. Très touchés aussi les adolescents qui tiennent un blog ou qui chattent sur MSN. En Suisse, un adolescent sur deux aurait été harcelé sur le net.

Insomnies : entre nuits blanches et idées noires…. 30 % des gens déclarent souffrir d’insomnie. Conséquences : fatigue, irritabilité, absentéisme, dépression, le sommeil est devenu un vrai problème de santé publique. Il y a les insomniaques qui se soignent par diverses thérapies, il y a ceux qui prennent des somnifères, il y a ceux qui fatiguent et dépriment et il y a ceux qui vivent avec. Les causes de nos nuits blanches ou grises ? Le stress, les écrans, le bruit, la mauvaise hygiène de vie, les substances excitantes etc. Comment vit-on quand on dort mal ou/et peu ?

Envoyé par Martine Luchmun (4ème année)

Placement or freelance opportunities

To all Communication Students

Here is an opportunity for either a placement or some freelance work. Maujobs is looking for Communication students who can collaborate on the following projects:

- Production of a short movie
- Setting up of a community blog
- Participation in communication micro-projects

Please see the detailed information below sent by Maujobs. If you are interested, please contact Ms Marie J de Robillard on mj2rob@yahoo.fr.

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As one of the pioneers of recruitment as a service, Service Bureau has been a useful ressource for thousands of graduating students during many years. And now, with the launch of www.maujobs.intnet.mu our online recruitment portal we are offering very innovative approaches to the use of IT to start, boost or track a career and are a vivid example, ourselves, of how much can be achieved in terms of communication and collaborative work.

Thus we have recently opened on our website a call for the setting up of a library of keywords related to competencies that will serve to match very precisely expertise with the job market needs. The project is ongoing and has already attracted a lot of contributers who have quickly understood its time-saving and quality-enhancing advantages.

The projects for which we are considering an input from students of your faculty will consist in

a) producing a short movie/footage/animation to be disseminated on various social networks to support the following premise: the exact profiling of specific competencies in a job/HR search constitues a clear value-addition, how can we demonstrate this assumption?

b) building a community blog to provide dialogue forums in order to liaise with local and international freshmen, counterparts, HR managers, recruiters, schools, & so on and

c) various communication micro-projects involving style, design, intelligence, media watch and creative writing.

All projects will imply a temporary and part-time attachment, so will not interfere with the time that they should devote to the normal course of their studies. The idea is to allow them to use the results of their work as thematic subjects in the scope of their project assignments and to have a first hand at the workplace, life-size, and what’s more at one where all modern communication tools are part of the work flow.

Participants will of course receive a stipend depending on the level of involvement they will wish to enter when we discuss with them. We can also provide a progress report at agreed intervals so that you can monitor the various attachments.

We are confident that such a project can provide an excellent opportunity for your students to put in practice what they have been learning and for us the guarantee that we contribute to shaping a work culture that is not only fun but relevant to the future engagements of the young people.

Results of the AMB Mauritius

As promised, the report of the 2008 African Media Barometer for Mauritius are now online on my personal blog at http://christinameetoo.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/results-of-the-african-media-barometer-for-mauritius/
A summary of key findings is also posted.
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