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Subject: The Drum Beat 403 - Media Development
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Date: Sat, July 14, 2007 03:42
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The Drum Beat - Issue 403 - Media Development
July 16 2007

from The Communication Initiative...global forces...local
choices...critical voices...telling stories...

Subscribe to The Drum Beat: http://www.comminit.com/subscribe_drumbeat.html
Access this issue online at http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat_403.html

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Beginning with a feature of the recent issue of our sister website Soul
Beat Africa's e-magazine, The Soul Beat, which highlights the March 2007
POLIS conference on media development in Africa, this issue of The Drum
Beat focuses on media development trends, research and analysis, networks,
capacity-building, and case studies from all over the world.

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POLIS is a joint venture by the London School of Economics and the London
College of Communication. Its mission is to study and debate the changing
relationship between journalism and society in the United Kingdom (UK) and
internationally (for more information, please see
http://www.comminit.com/redirect.cgi?r=http://www.lse.ac.uk/polis or email
Po...@lse.ac.uk).

Inspired by the July 2006 release of a "white paper" by the UK Department
for International Development (DFID) titled "Eliminating World Poverty:
Making Governance Work for the Poor", in March 2007, a POLIS conference
brought together senior African, UK and international journalists,
policymakers, academics and media development professionals to debate the
role of the media in building African society. The focus of the conference
was on how the potential of the media can be seized to improve development
and good governance on the African continent; the aim was not to come up
with specific policy recommendations or settled opinions, but instead, to
spark ideas and inspire action.

Issue 88 of The Soul Beat featured summaries of and links to both the
background and session documents created and used as a basis for that
conference, and the final report that was the outcome of it.

Please see http://www.comminit.com/africa/soul-beat-88.html for the
archived version of The Soul Beat #88.

A summary of each of those papers is also available on The Communication
Initiative website at the following locations:

* POLIS Conference: Background Paper
by James Deane
http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2007/thinking-2208.html

* Session 1: Media and Power: How Can the Media Hold Governments in
Developing Countries, International Financial Institutions and Donors to
Account?
by Mark Wilson
http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2007/thinking-2218.html

* Session 2: Media and the MDGs - Advocacy or Debate: What Role for the
Media in Achieving the MDGs?
by James Deane
http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2007/thinking-2229.html

* Session 3: Media and New Technology: Can the Digital Revolution Boost
the Impact of African Media on Development and Governance?
by Gerald Milward-Oliver
http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2007/thinking-2240.html

* Session 4: Media and Fragile States - Where Governments Are 'Unwilling
or Unable' to Perform their Basic Functions, Should We Abandon Media
Development Altogether?
by Sophie Middlemiss
http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2007/thinking-2243.html

* [Final Report] Development, Governance and the Media: The Role of the
Media in Building African Society
by Charlie Beckett and Laura Kyrke-Smith (eds.)
http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2007/thinking-2270.html

For a hard copy of the final report, please contact Laura Kyrke-Smith
Po...@lse.ac.uk

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Also see the following archived issues of The Soul Beat, related to Media
Development in Africa:

The Soul Beat - Issue #61 - "Media and Development in Africa"
http://www.comminit.com/africa/soul-beat-61.html

The Soul Beat - Issue #32 - "Journalists & Development Communication"
http://www.comminit.com/africa/soul-beat-32.html

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RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

1. Media Matters: Perspectives on Advancing Governance & Development
by Mark Harvey (ed)
This document - the product of a year-long collaboration among media
development practitioners and social, political and communications
scientists - attempts to present the breadth and depth of the media
development sector and includes messages to policy makers on the central
role of independent media in effective international development. This
resource has four key aims: to help development policy makers and
practitioners understand the relevance of independent media systems to
their wider goals; to highlight work on the evidence of the relationship
between media, communications and the development agenda; to flag key
global and regional trends and opportunities in media assistance; and to
map the media assistance sector, its growing body of literature, and the
emerging international research partnerships that will help define its
priorities to 2015.
http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2007/materials-3248.html

2. Media Pluralism Landscape
by Marie-Helene Bonin
This study aims to foster media pluralism in Mozambique along the lines of
the established outputs and prepared work plan of the UNESCO/UNDP Media
Development Project in Mozambique. To bolster the effort of providing
information useful to the UNESCO/UNDP objective, this publication analyses
the level of media pluralism in Mozambique in terms of its significance
and entrenchment. The significance of media pluralism was analysed through
a measurement of media diversity (both at factual and impact levels); its
entrenchment was analysed through a measurement of media sustainability
(both at vision and resource levels).
http://www.comminit.com/materials/materials/materials-934.html

3. African Media Development Initiative (AMDI) - Africa
Launched January 2006, AMDI is a process which aims to mobilise a range of
African and international stakeholders to boost support for the
development of public and private sector media in Africa. AMDI is a
consortium of partners that are working to provide funds and expertise to
create an African media development facility. Their work revolves around
three components. The first involved independent research and analysis of
media development. The research activity generated 17 individual country
reports (covering Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone,
Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe) and one
stand-alone report that summarised the key findings across the 17
countries. The research and analysis evidence was then considered at a
high level technical workshop led by the members of the Advisory Group,
which was held in mid-2006. This workshop reviewed the reports, a!
nd identify the priority areas which the initiative should address.
Finally, a joint committee called Africa Media Initiative (AMI) has now
been formed, bringing together AMDI with the United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa (UNECA) process ("Strengthening African Media -
STREAM"), and they are working on detailed research specifications for a
facility, and possibly a Media Development Forum to be held in the
future.
http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds2006/experiences-3736.html
Contact Thane Ryland ws.t...@bbc.co.uk OR Professor Guy Berger
g.be...@ru.ac.za

4. AMDI Research Reports
This is a series of 17 separate country reports released by the African
Media Development Initiative (AMDI). The countries covered include:
include: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South
Africa, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Data
presented in the reports is based on both secondary research gathered by
local researchers and on extensive interviews conducted locally among key
media practitioners and leaders. Each of the reports consists of 3
sections: media sector developments; challenges for future media
development activities; and a case study: illustrating good practice in
media development.
http://www.comminit.com/trends/ctrends2007/trends-333.html

5. The People's Voice: The Development and Current State of the South
African Small Media Sector
by A. Hadland and K. Thorne
The purpose of the study was to assist the work of the Media Development
and Diversity Agency (MDDA), an organisation which was established to
direct funding and support to the small media sector in the interests of
deepening South Africa’s young democracy. The study aims to provide an
overview of relevant legislation and policy in South Africa, pre- and
post-1994, as well as review international research that reveals global
trends in small media development. Providing a range of data, analysis and
information, this study is a resource for anyone wishing to engage
effectively with the small media sector.
http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2007/materials-3292.html

Also See:

Why the Media Matter: Ensuring the World's Poorest People Have a Say
http://www.comminit.com/trends/ctrends2006/trends-275.html

NETWORKING FOR MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

6. Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) - Global
The Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) is a practitioner-led
process that aims to bring greater linkages and sustainable impact to the
work of the media development sector as a whole through providing a forum
for collaboration, promoting and disseminating research,
professionalisation and shared learning. GFMD aims to link major
international media development groups as well as regional and national
media non-governmental organisations (NGOs) worldwide to leverage their
ability to expand people’s access to information and foster local,
independent media around the world. It seeks to do this through:
collaboration - creating a practitioner-led platform for the media
development sector to advocate with donors, governments, opinion leaders
and the wider public; substantiation - promoting and disseminating
research and analysis on the effects of media development assistance on
governance, civic participation, poverty alleviation, emergent crises, and
markets worldwide; an!
d professionalisation - establishing agreed-upon standards and ethics for
media development work that encourage cross-sector co-operation.
Shared Learning - critiquing and evaluating the media development sector
to identify and advance best practices, methods, and technology.
http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds2006/experiences-3712.html
Contact con...@gfmd.info

7. Global Communicators Network - Global
Formed in 1985 by representatives from development and international aid
agencies related to the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Global
Communicators Network (GCN) is a forum for the ecumenical sharing of
communication experiences and resources on justice issues. The work and
commitment of this voluntary network of media professionals relates to the
quest for a more just, sustainable, and participatory world order.
Face-to-face dialogue and internet exchange between diverse members from
"North' and 'South' countries is the network's key emphasis. Participants
are people who work with mass media in their national context, who are
conveying messages of social change, and who wish to share these interests
and concerns with a wider forum. The Network brings communications people
together in face-to-face biannual meetings at various locations around the
world to discuss development and everyday issues linked to poverty and the
related tensions and differing perspectives from!
the North and South. In between get-togethers, participants are
encouraged to contribute and exchange ideas, research, images, and final
products through the regular newsletter or via the GCN website. The
latter includes a section whereby network members may add images to an
online gallery, and/or participate in a news blog.
http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds12004/experiences-436.html
Contact
http://www.comminit.com/redirect.cgi?r=http://www.globalcommunicators.net/gcn/contact_gcn

8. Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) - Southern Africa
MISA is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) working to ensure freedom of
the press, freedom of expression, and media pluralism in Southern Africa.
With members in 11 of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)
countries, MISA focuses on the need to promote free, independent, and
pluralistic media by disseminating information, promoting strategies for
action plans, and training journalists in media rights and democracy. MISA
aims to create an environment in which civil society is empowered to claim
information and access it, as part of an effort to strengthen democracy by
enabling more informed citizen participation. The role of MISA is
primarily one of a coordinator, facilitator, and communicator; for this
reason, a key MISA strategy is working together with like-minded
organisations and individuals in the effort to achieve a genuinely free
and pluralistic media in southern Africa. MISA undertakes campaigns and
activities in the following areas: freedom of expressi!
on, broadcasting diversity, media monitoring, gender and media support,
and legal support. Broadly, MISA carries out actions such as registering
human rights and media rights violations, establishing a press bureau,
and supporting independent media development in the radio and television
media sectors. MISA has also set up a warning communication system to
respond to media rights and human rights abuses against journalists in
the region.
http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds-05-00/experiences-56.html
Contact Kaitira Kandjii dire...@misa.org

9. Zambia Community Media Forum (ZaCoMeF) - Zambia
The Zambia Community Media Forum (ZaCoMeF) is an umbrella body
representing the interests of the Zambian community media sector.
Membership of ZaCoMeF is drawn from all 9 provinces of Zambia. It was
formed by the Panos Institute Southern Africa, in conjunction with other
stakeholders, to address certain problems affecting local community media
and to strengthen this sector. It also serves as a broker and
clearinghouse for community media initiatives. ZaCoMeF is an effort to
bring community media actors together to exchange ideas and develop
strategies for supporting this sector. Inclusivity in membership and focus
is a key programme theme. The forum caters to all community media
initiatives and all forms of community communication (including
traditional and/or folk media, such as live drama).
http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds2006/experiences-3656.html
Contact Elias Mthoniswa Banda Zac...@panos.org.zm

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It's time we stopped dividing the world into North and South.

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Please VOTE and COMMENT! - http://www.comminit.com/pulse.html

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MEDIA DEVELOPMENT THROUGH CAPACITY-BUILDING

10. Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) - Colombia
FNPI is an international centre dedicated to the training and professional
development of young and mid-career professional journalists from Latin
American and Caribbean countries. FNPI was founded in 1995 with the
leadership of the Nobel Prize Literature award winner Gabriel Garcia
Marquez. FNPI's core project is the New Journalism Workshop, which is an
itinerant programme that also includes training seminars. García Márquez's
original idea was to conduct workshops in which leading journalists and
editors (master teachers) from all over the world discuss the nuts and
bolts of the craft with young reporters, in sessions that had a tone more
like an extended conversation among friends than a formal university
class. The seminars are attended by groups of up to 50 journalists and
experts for two or three days, where participants debate on current topics
that journalists cover in Latin America, for instance: corruption,
terrorism, poverty, or elections. Other focus areas of FNP!
I include: New Journalism Award - CEMEX+FNPI; a virtual community;
various publications; the Antonio Nariño Project; the New Journalism
Programme for the Caribbean Region of Colombia; and the Journalism and
Children's Rights Project.
http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pdskellogg/experiences-1699.html
Contact Jaime Abello Banfi jab...@fnpi.org

11. International Center For Media Studies and Development - West Africa
This is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) working to promote and
develop the media industry in West Africa, especially in Liberia. The
organisation supports freedom of the independent press through capacity
building, partnership, and advocacy. INCEMSADWA's core strategies include:
training and holding workshops for members of the independent media in an
effort to help them produce sound and professional journalism by
strengthening their ability to think strategically and make critical
decisions on major issues affecting society; building partnerships with
local, national and international organisations to develop and empower the
independent press; and speaking and engaging in advocacy to promote major
issues in journalism today, such as changes in the field's ethics,
reporters' and editors' relationships with their audiences, and ownership
and boundaries.
http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds2006/experiences-3707.html
Contact Josephus Gray medi...@yahoo.com OR info_in...@yahoo.com