Promoting Citizens’ Participation in Broadcasting
16-04-2004 (Paris)
A regional workshop on citizens’ media entitled "Promoting Citizens’ Participation in Broadcasting" will be organized by UNESCO, in cooperation with the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD), the World Radio and Television Council (WRTVC), and the South Asia Free Media Association, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 18 April.
The workshop, a pre-event to the Asia Media Summit (Kuala Lumpur, 19-21 April 2004), brings together some thirty participants from Asia and the Pacific to discuss how to foster dialogue between media, particularly broadcasters and civil society groups in order to improve access to information and knowledge through quality and diverse content reflecting the needs, concerns and expectations of the various target audiences.
The meeting will review the current situation, role and place of the listeners and viewers in the field of broadcasting, consider some successful examples of citizens participation in broadcasting (case studies Pakistan, Indonesia, Philippines and also Canada and UK), discuss how a dialogue between the civil society, broadcasters (particularly PSB) and authorities and their interaction can be established and improved, including the need for public interest monitoring bodies such as citizens' associations of listeners and viewers and/or for citizens’ media commissions. The participants would also work on practical recommendations for future actions.
Last December, in the framework of the World Electronic Media Forum, a major side event of the World Summit on the Information Society, UNESCO organized a workshop on PSB. Almost 150 participants from all over the world advised PSB to “actively seek and encourage the advice of civil society associations in the determination of policies and priorities for programming”.
The meeting will review the current situation, role and place of the listeners and viewers in the field of broadcasting, consider some successful examples of citizens participation in broadcasting (case studies Pakistan, Indonesia, Philippines and also Canada and UK), discuss how a dialogue between the civil society, broadcasters (particularly PSB) and authorities and their interaction can be established and improved, including the need for public interest monitoring bodies such as citizens' associations of listeners and viewers and/or for citizens’ media commissions. The participants would also work on practical recommendations for future actions.
Last December, in the framework of the World Electronic Media Forum, a major side event of the World Summit on the Information Society, UNESCO organized a workshop on PSB. Almost 150 participants from all over the world advised PSB to “actively seek and encourage the advice of civil society associations in the determination of policies and priorities for programming”.
Related themes/countries
· Public Service Broadcasting: News Archives 2003
· Malaysia: News Archive 2004
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