[WSIS CS-Plenary] Invitation to the COMMUNITY MEDIA FORUM Dec. 12th !!

[Christoph Dietz]

Community Media Forum
Friday 12th December 2003
Salle Salève, Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland
 
· Concrete Examples of Active Community Involvement, Social Change and Networking
· Creative Experiences of Using Cost-Effective Means for Connecting the World's Poorest Communities
· Further Steps towards Legal Recognition of Community Media as Equals to Public and Commercial Media

Interpretación simultanea por todo el día
Traduction simultanée pour toute la journée
Simultaneous interpreting available

Chair: Lavinia Mohr (WACC)

9.15 Introduction
Christoph Stückelberger (Bread for All)

9.30 Community Media and the WSIS
Steve Buckley (President AMARC)

10.00 Communication, Democracy and Cultural Diversity
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron (Communication for Social Change Consortium)

11.00 The Practice Inspires: Lessons Learnt from 30 Creative Latin American Community Radios
Andrés Geerts and Victor van Oeyen (ALER)
with Live Presentations by Radio Favela (Brazil) and Radio Los Cumiches (Nicaragua)

14.00 Community Media Legislation Roundtable
· Martha Pinto de De Hart (Colombian Communication Minister): Community Media Support and Legislation in Colombia: Lessons Learnt
· Karin Millet (World Bank): The Contribution of Community Media to Poverty Reduction and Strengthening Civil Society
· Néstor Busso (Community Radio Network FARCO) and Sergio Fernández Novoa (Argentinian Media Regulation Authority COMFER): Case Study Argentina
· Gustavo Gómez (AMARC Latin American Legislation Programme): Comparison of Legal Frameworks in Latin America
· John Barker (Article 19): Core Issues for Media Legislation, Regulation and Policy Relevant to Community Broadcasting
· Alfons Noll (Former Head of ITU Law Dep.): Recommendations and Legislation Criteria from the Perspective of the ITU 

15.30 Community Communication in Africa
· Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki (FEMNET): Community Media, Gender and Human Rights in Africa
· Frederick Kellerman (Good News Community Radio South Africa): Community Radio in the Battle Against AIDS - a South African Experience
· Gilles Eric Foadey (Simbani Africa News Agency): The Use of ICTs: an Opportunity to Consolidate Community Radio Local Contents
· Anastasie Mutoka (National TV DR Congo): Community Television in DR Congo
· Talenth Nyathi (MISA): Community Newspapers in Zimbabwe

16.30 Networking and Globalising Community Media
· Bharat Koirala (Radio Sagarmatha, Nepal): Community Radio Movements in Asia - Positive Steps Towards Change
· Maria Victoria Cabrera-Balleza (ISIS Manila): Women in Community Radio - International Perspectives
· Francesco Diasio (Radio Voices without Frontiers): Radio Networking against Racism
· Myoungjoon Kim (Labor News Production): Alternative and Community Media - Practical and Legislative Issues in South Korea
· Gabriele Hadl (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto): Adbusters Japan
· DeeDee Halleck (Deep Dish TV Network): Community Television in the United States

Forum Partners:  Latin American Association of Educational Broadcasting (ALER), www.aler.org.ec; World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), www.amarc.org; Bread for All, www.ppp.ch/communication; Catholic Media Council, www.cameco.org; Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund, www.fastenopfer.ch; WSIS Civil Society Community Media Caucus.

Coordination: Christoph Dietz, christoph.dietz at cameco.org, Urs A. Jaeggi, jaeggi at bfa-ppp.ch

Download our leaflet and the "Who is Who at the Community Media Forum" at http://www.cameco.org