ALGIERS - The Higher Council for Youth (CSJ) organized Tuesday, in Algiers, a forum on “The role of media in strengthening intellectual security among Algerian youth,” with the participation of academics and experts in the field.

In this regard, the Minister of Youth in charge of the Higher Council for Youth (CSJ), Mustapha Hidaoui, emphasized, in a speech read on his behalf by CSJ Vice-President Salah Koreichi, “the importance of this theme, given its impact on this important category of society.”

Hidaoui urged the participants to develop “recommendations and proposals that would enhance media's role and improve communications to accurately portray Algeria and its people.”

The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Kamel Baddari, speaking through the ministry’s representative Assia Sahraoui, stressed the forum's significance in highlighting “youth's potential role in strengthening intellectual security, particularly in an era where we're inundated with media content from all directions through various modern platforms.”

He added that the CSJ is “actively working to combat all forms of discrimination and reject harmful hate speech, narrow-minded regionalism, and extremism, with the goal of eliminating these threats to our society.”

In his speech, the president of the CSJ's information and communication commission, Tahar Ahad, highlighted “the major role of media in strengthening intellectual security among young people in the era of multimedia and open sources.”

For Ahad, media contributes to “the dissemination of knowledge and reliable information that helps young people develop their critical thinking, have good judgment and combat extremist ideas, with a view to consolidating positive values in society and adapting to technological advances.”