THE GLOSSARY

ADISI-Cameroun

Association for Integrated Development and Interactive Solidarity. Solidarity. In particular, it promotes access to information and Open Data, as well as freedom of expression, freedom of the press and data journalism.

AFCN

Arab Fact Checkers Network, a network that works towards fostering transparent and impartial fact-checking

AFD

Agence Française de Développement (French Development Agency), a public financial institution that implements French development policy, takes action aimed at combating poverty and promotes sustainable development.

AFP

Agence France Presse.

Africa Check

Africa’s first independent fact-checking organisation.

Africtivistes

A pan-African network of bloggers and web activists that promotes and defends democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital technology.

AIC

Association Initiatives Citoyennes (Moroccan Citizen Initiatives Association).

AJSG

Association des Journalistes Scientifiques de Guinée (Guinean Association of Science Journalists)

ARIJ

Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism.

Brut Afrique

A global media company that creates short-form video content for audiences around the world.

Centre for Information Resilience

A British body specialising in the open-source data sector (OSINT).

CFI

Canal France International, a French agency responsible for media development assistance projects. Organiser of the Media and Development forum.

Civic tech

A set of processes, tools and technologies that can be used to improve the democratic functioning of societies and communities by enhancing the role played by citizens in debates and decision-making.

CNRS

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

COP27

The 2022 Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference, referred to as COP27, is an international United Nations conference.

Désinfox Afrique

A CFI project that provides support to the media in six French-speaking African countries to consolidate their journalists’ knowledge of fact checking.

Dooz

A multimedia platform for information and exchange focusing exclusively on Palestinian topics.

DW Akademie

A German body that strengthens human rights and freedom of opinion.

Echoes of women’s voices

A CFI project that encourages meetings between young rural Moroccan women in the Marrakesh-Safi region, in order to give them a voice, to bring to light their own vision of society and to let them express their plans and aspirations.

EcoConscience.tv

Online television channel based in Lomé, Togo.

Edukmedia

Cameroonian media education association.

EPJT

École publique de journalisme de Tours (Public School of Journalism in Tours, France)

Balkans Voices

A project led by CFI, which allows a new generation of young talent from the Balkans to reclaim the language used in the media and to express themselves openly.

FablabChannel

A committed, new- generation digital production company aimed at a young, French-speaking audience.

Fake Off

The first association of journalists in the audiovisual sphere that is dedicated to developing critical thinking and combating mass disinformation among young people.

Faso Check / Congo Check

Media outlets specialising in fact-checking in Burkina Faso and Congo.

Female Shimeras

The first video platform dedicated to women in Hebron in the Palestinian Territories.

FMM

France Médias Monde, the French national programming company that supervises the RFI radio station, Monte Carlo Doualiya and the global television news channel, France24.

Fondation Hirondelle

This body aims to provide independent information within conflict or crisis zones, primarily in French-speaking Africa.

FPU

Free Press Unlimited helps to influence governments and political players in order to create a favourable environment for

GFMD

Global Forum for Media Development. The biggest global community of media development and journalism support organisations.

GIEC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

IFRI

Institut français des relations internationales (French Institute of International Relations).

IMS

International Media Support, a Danish organisation that pushes for quality journalism, challenges repressive laws and keeps media workers of all genders safe, so that they can do their jobs.

Inkyfada

A Tunisian webzine created in 2014 by a team of journalists, developers and graphic designers.

L’Orient-Le Jour

The first French-language daily newspaper in Lebanon.

La Maison des reporters

An independent media outlet devoted to information and financed by the Senegalese public.

Lettres persanes

An information site that translates Iranian press and blogs into French.

MCD

Monte Carlo Doualiya, an Arabic-language French public radio station aimed at the Arab region.

MediaSahel for Women

A CFI project conducted in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, this project promotes the development of quality, gender-sensitive journalism and offers spaces in which women can express themselves.

Megaphones

A Lebanese online independent news site.

MFWA

The Media Foundation for West Africa is an international non- governmental organisation based in Accra, Ghana.

Museba Journalism Project

An NGO dedicated to investigative journalism in Central Africa and the Great Lakes region.

Ndefcam radio

One of the most popular online radio stations in Cameroon.

UNICEF

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund.

NewsGuard

A company dedicated to providing people with more details regarding the sources of the information they find online.

OCCRP

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

OSINT

Open Source INTelligence. Refers to the practice of gathering information from publicly accessible sources for intelligence or journalism purposes.

Radio Erena

An Eritrean media outlet exiled in Paris.

RFI

Radio France Internationale, a French public radio station that is broadcast internationally.

RSF

Reporters sans frontières (Reporters Without Borders).

Samsa

A French company specialising in editorial transitions.

SOWT

An Arabic-language podcast platform.

Thmey Thmey Media

(Literally “new new”), this is a Cambodian online media outlet launched in 2012 by a group of journalists who were working for RFI and Cambodge Soir at the time.

XXI

An independent French magazine of reports that does not contain advertising.

6 mois

A quarterly French photojournalism magazine.

1+1TV

A Ukrainian general-interest television channel founded in 1995. It is the second largest Ukrainian channel in terms of audience share.