FAO launches e-forum on media for development
[with thanks to www.indev.org for the lead]
FAO launches e-forum on media for development
The FAO Communication for Development Group is hosting an e-mail
discussion beginning 4 December.
The electronic forum will provide a place for communication
professionals to share best practices on the use of local
(traditional, folk and popular) media and new media, such as the
Internet, for development. The forum is open to anyone interested in
the topic. Among those who have already subscribed are people from
the academic community, non-governmental organizations and the media,
including a number of journalists from developing countries.
Issues for discussion include:
- the ways in which development agencies can use local media to
transmit information without exploiting or destabilizing local
cultures;
- the appropriateness of various media to the messages being
conveyed;
- media ownership and access -- that is, what local participation
means and how to encourage local involvement in the design and
implementation of communication programmes;
- the extent to which the new information technologies, such as the
Internet, reach the poor;
- how to ensure that the content of these technologies, usually
generated in the North, is relevant to local cultures;
- the potential for the marriage of new technologies with
traditional/folk media.
Click here for more information or to subscribe
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/CDdirect/CDre0056.htm
[source: http://www.fao.org/news/2000/brief/BR0012-e.htm#forum ]
