Caucasus Media Investigations Center (CMIC) was founded in Azerbaijan on May, 2005 to help the development of media, to serve for proficiency of journalists, to support in-depth media investigations, to support media freedom in Azerbaijan and in the whole world, to make contribution to achieve development of using new online media tools, to support active citizenship, civic society, to contribute for building democratic society, increased government accountability and transparency, to develop citizen journalism and to strengthen role of new media in Southern Caucasus countries.