TBILISI: IREX’s new Multimedia Education Center (funded by USAID) is a multipurpose, multimedia editorial studio and learning environment that embraces mobile media. Working with funders, partners and IREX staff in Georgia and Washington, D.C., Robb Montgomery developed a set of S.M.A.R.T. newsroom concepts to ensure the space will be a hub for discussions that intersect across the disciplines of technology, journalism, and governance in the Southern Caucasus. The resulting S.M.A.R.T. newsroom space features state-of-the-art approacehs about new media, open space architecture, mobile-oriented media labs and has attracted schools like the Georgian Institute for Public Affairs (GIPA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Ilia State University to program training courses. The center's reporting and editing facilities in Tbilisi are equipped with the very latest visual media tools to allow students for to produce professional caliber, competitive content for print, broadcast, online and mobile consumers. The training center will have a grand opening in December and offers event space, cafe, classrooms, editing suites in an open floor plan with moving walls and can easily be reconfigured between studio, stage, lab and classroom on the fly. The entire space is essentially a large multi-platform stage where every square meter provides a studio-grade environment available for interviewing, editing, producing and hosting multi-platform content. The concept of bringing studies out of classrooms and into a studio environment is an innovative and groundbreaking innovation in journalism education. Technology drives many of these these solutions and IREX's technology partners will also use the event configurations of the center to convene activities and events that will showcase the latest trends and developments across the fields of journalism, technology and civil society. IREX's Multimedia Education Center is an activity engine for new media development for the country of Georgia and beyond.

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