Representative office of the International organization Internews Network in Kazakhstan

Internews Kazakhstan is a representative office of an international non-profit organization Internews Network and supports open media in Kazakhstan.

Internews Kazakhstan was established in 1992. The representative office was headed by Chris Gering who made an important contribution to development of Internews Kazakhtan and promotion of the principles of free and independent mass media in Kazakhstan. Since 1995 Oleg Katsiev, Director of the representative office Internews Network in Kazakhstan has carried out the general management over all Internews projects in Kazakhstan.

Internews Kazakhstan fosters independent media in Kazakhstan. In this connection we work on the following projects:

• Educational projects –trainings for journalists and station managers in world standards and international practices of professional journalism;
  Project for legal assistance to mass media;
  

• Informational support;
  

• Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI);
  

• TV program production projects - innovative television programming on local and international topics, and
  

• Program of Small Grants for mass media.