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About IDMC - Institute for democracy, Media and Culture

IDMC - Institute for Democracy, Media & Culture is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental organization based in Tirana, which inspires and supports projects with an interdisciplinary approach to study, understand and promote the development of democratic values, the role and impact that media and culture can play both locally and abroad. It aims to extend its activities to three important fields: democracy, media and culture. IDMC will endeavor to accomplish its mission through civic involvement programs, principally among the young generation, for it is our belief that the young people deserve more room and guidance to be active participants in the processes of policy-making. OBJECTIVES Democracy The process of democratization in young democracies such as Albania's would be incomplete without the inclusion and encouragement of debate and scientific research on political actors and various social groups. IDMC aims to promote democratic values by acting as a think tank, encouraging public opinion polls on different aspects of policy-making both at national and international level, and supporting in addition to stimulating the interest of the young generation to new forms of political representation, by using technology, the new media (fluid democracy) in service of reinforcing the democracy of the XXIst century. Media and technology IDMC considers the media a key stakeholder in the process of democratization. It therefore supports the projects that stress on debates about the democratic and social role the journalists and the media play in this era of new technologies. These days, the use of communication technologies should be regarded as an integral component of a country's democratic development. Media monitoring and support is achieved with the help of development projects for local media and other peripheral cultural centers. An empirical scan of the present-day Albanian media and journalism is made possible through analysis of the communic