UNESCO Supports Asia Media Summit through Public Media Workshops
03-05-2005 (Paris)
The Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) in collaboration with UNESCO and other international organizations is organizing the Asia Media Summit from 9 to 11 May 2005 in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur.
The Summit will provide a unique opportunity for broadcasters and other media professionals, as well as decision makers and academics around the globe to share their knowledge and thoughts on issues concerning information and broadcasting.
Around 300 decision makers, media professionals, scholars, and stakeholders of news and programming from Asia, Pacific, Europe, North America, Middle East, and Africa will participate in the conference that will also provide a platform for broadcasters to put forth their recommendations for the second meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), in Tunis, in November.
UNESCO supports the event in Kuala Lumpur by organizing two workshops. The first workshop entitled “Citizens' media”(8 May) aims at highlighting the necessity and emergence of citizens’ media not “merely as an aspiration or a necessity but an irrevocable outcome of the evolution of knowledge societies”, the organizers say. For them, citizens’ contribution takes on a new meaning when the power and the tools to express and to communicate are becoming more easily accessible.
A second workshop on “Public broadcasting best practices: evaluation, monitoring, and standards" organized in cooperation with AIBD and the World Radio and Television Council (WRTVC) will review up-to-date evaluation and monitoring best practices for public service broadcasting, including measuring public value, assess management quality standard for broadcasters, discuss the need for monitoring mechanisms in Asia and possibly other regions and prepare recommendations for follow up actions. The workshop is scheduled on 7 and 8 May 2005.
Around 300 decision makers, media professionals, scholars, and stakeholders of news and programming from Asia, Pacific, Europe, North America, Middle East, and Africa will participate in the conference that will also provide a platform for broadcasters to put forth their recommendations for the second meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), in Tunis, in November.
UNESCO supports the event in Kuala Lumpur by organizing two workshops. The first workshop entitled “Citizens' media”(8 May) aims at highlighting the necessity and emergence of citizens’ media not “merely as an aspiration or a necessity but an irrevocable outcome of the evolution of knowledge societies”, the organizers say. For them, citizens’ contribution takes on a new meaning when the power and the tools to express and to communicate are becoming more easily accessible.
A second workshop on “Public broadcasting best practices: evaluation, monitoring, and standards" organized in cooperation with AIBD and the World Radio and Television Council (WRTVC) will review up-to-date evaluation and monitoring best practices for public service broadcasting, including measuring public value, assess management quality standard for broadcasters, discuss the need for monitoring mechanisms in Asia and possibly other regions and prepare recommendations for follow up actions. The workshop is scheduled on 7 and 8 May 2005.
Related themes/countries
· Public Service Broadcasting: News Archives 2005
· Malaysia: News Archive 2005
· Asia and the Pacific: News Archive 2005
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- Vladmir Gai, UNESCO, Communciation Development Division
- Tarja Virtanen, UNESCO Office in New Delhi
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