An online seminar of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat on media literacy has started. It is intended for representatives of ministries and departments involved in the implementation of the National Action Plan of Turkmenistan in the field of human rights for 2021-2025.

Within two days, together with international and national experts, the participants will discuss the features of the formation of media literacy, its key elements, consider media literacy projects and infrastructure for its development. Participants will also increase their knowledge of the main tools and forms of fact-checking, learn about information verification and its principles.

A separate session will be dedicated to media literacy in Turkmenistan and its challenges.

The trainers of the seminar are Gegham Vardanyan from Armenia, Solvit Denis Lipniets from Latvia and Azat Seyitmuhammedov from Turkmenistan.

The formation of media and information literacy of the population is a new area of activity that is actively developed in politics and practice in many countries of the world. After all, rapid changes in the information environment and the growth of information volumes have an increasingly strong influence on the consciousness and behavior of people, on our entire lives.

Media literacy helps people, as well as public institutions and organizations, to solve technological, economic and social problems, and allows them to protect themselves from negative influences. Today, media and information literacy goes beyond the possession of communication and information technologies and includes the skills of critical thinking, understanding and interpreting information in various areas of professional, educational and social activities.