Bucharest hosts the 5th edition of the Media 2020 Conference
In Bucharest today begins the 5th edition of the Media 2020 Conference organized by Radio Romania in partnership with the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. 40 representatives of the most important public media organizations in Europe and Asia-Pacific will discuss their future in the digital age, strategies for copyright protection and combating fake news. For more information, I am now live with the RRA reporter, Alina Stanuta.
Reporter: Good morning. Already a tradition in the media dialogue between Europe and the Asia Pacific area, the Media 2020 conference organized in 2015, at the initiative of Radio Romania in partnership with the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union, has established itself as one of the most open and constructive platforms for dialogue in Europe and Asia in media plan. The purpose of the event is to familiarize public media broadcasters with concrete strategies designed to meet the challenges of the new digital age. The debating sessions will focus on the future of public media in the digital age, on strategies for protecting copyright and on combating the fake news phenomenon. Moreover, the Minister of Culture, Daniel Beaz, present at the official opening of the event, showed that it is very important that the information transmitted through the media is correct so that we do not have to deal with fake news because they have a negative impact. For his part, Dr. Javad Mottaghi, the secretary general of ABU, showed that the media can strengthen the dialogue between nations, while the audience needs independent, impartial and reliable news. It is up to us if we tell the truth to the public and if we gain the public’s confidence, said Javad Mottaghi.
Fines for false calls to 112, 113 and 114 increase
From today, fines for false calls to 112 or for sending abusive messages to 113, for people with hearing or speech impairments, or 114 for transmitting location data are increasing. They are fined from 500 to 1000 lei. Also, the false alert of the specialized agencies of intervention is sanctioned with a fine from 1500 to 5000 lei. The sanctions, which were increased five times, were established by a government emergency ordinance adopted in august. Authorities want to increase the efficiency of managing emergency calls and reducing false ones that can endanger the health or life of the citizen, as well as public order, property or the environment.
The Annual Council of Europe’s Cultural Routes Consultative Forum is being held in Sibiu
In Sibiu is being held these days the Annual Consultative Forum of Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe. It is hosted for the first time by Romania, and over 150 cultural tourism specialists from 33 countries participate in the event. Currently, there are 38 such certified routes in Europe, and Romania has included heritage objectives on eight of them.
Reporter: Carmen Vulcan – Among the eight European cultural routes that cross Romania are Transromanica, which includes the city of Alba Iulia, the Art Nouveau Network, of which Oradea, the Iron Curtain Route or the Roman Emperors Route and the Danube Wine Route are part. Sibiu, the only Romanian city that has held the title of European cultural capital so far, does not appear on any certified cultural route. Present at the Sibiu forum, Romanian Tourism Minister, Bogdan Trif said that our country should better exploit its potential for cultural tourism.
Bogdan Trif: There are many tourists and groups organized by tourists who come and visit monuments, so they come for cultural tourism. We have enormous potential to be harnessed, and I wish that many cultural tourist attractions in Sibiu could access these routes and become targets on the map of Europe and on the map of the world.
Reporter: In the future, the authorities in Romania and the Republic of Moldova intend to certify at European level the Cross-border Cultural Route Stephan the Great and the Saint./aboboc
