name: Nai
text: Nai is a local Afghan organization working for the development of open media in Afghanistan and was created on the 22nd June 2004.
  
  Since the beginning, its mandate has been to foster independent media in the emerging democracy of Afghanistan. It helps local groups to work for the adoption of open broadcasting and internet policy in order to guarantee equal and indiscriminate access of all population groups to open media (TV, radio & the Internet), regardless of their political, economic and social statuses and positions.
  	
   Nai supports media and civil society initiatives to bring peace and improve stability in Afghanistan.  Nai is also engaged in advocacy and reform activities. Nai seeks alternative initiatives, and courageous actions to support and protect journalists. Their programs are based on the conviction that diverse mass media and open access to information form an essential cornerstone of free and open societies.
  
  Nai is engaged in journalism education and monitoring activities. It employs foreign and Afghan trainers to conduct courses on specific topics (e.g. human rights, gender, family planning, drugs, environment, or other) or more general topics for journalists and technicians (e.g. journalism ethics, media law, basic and advanced journalism, investigative journalism, radio production, computer and other) as well as their managers (e.g. Business development, Management and other). Believing that only practical education can be successful, Nai has developed and is carrying out an internship program for journalists from different provinces coming to the Salam Watandar studios in Kabul for 1 month in order to master their proficiency. An exchange programme also enables local radio staff members to spend a week in another local radio in order to exchange experience and learn from colleagues in other provinces.
  
  Nai has a computer lab with 19 Pentium 4 machines, where computer classes are conducted, and three classrooms for other courses. Internet facility is available for both personnel and trainees.  Training is also carried out in-house to answer the needs of individual stations at all levels.
  
  Nai is also providing support to AIRA, the first Afghan Independent Radio Association, which it helped in its set up, and is now providing advice and office space to. Support to individual stations is also provided (Samangan Sado-e-Haqiqat benefited for Naiâ€™s intensive support over the last 6 months and is now building a new building for itself and an internet cafÃ© with full assistance from Nai), and Nai is increasingly involved in the building of new local stations (an independent station with Internet cafÃ© is now being built in Laghman, while the Laghman  station is being upgraded; Nai will also train and monitor staff members of new stations built around the country by Internews).
  
  Nai is a full member of Internews International , an international association of media NGOs, which is based in Paris and consists of 30 non-governmental and non-profit media freedom associations working together to support freedom of expression.
  
  http://www.nai.org.af/