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| Announcement: Community Media Reflection Conference |
| Friday, 18 September 2009 03:55 |
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The National Community Radio Forum and the Alternative Information and Development Centre will host a reflection conference on the 8th and 9th October this year to stimulate dialogue between leaders from community projects and other stakeholders to reflect on their environment and create a shared critique to develop alternatives.
South Africa now has over 100 on-air community radio stations, two on-air community television stations, and numerous print and online community and alternative media initiatives. These media projects have grown out of the struggle to liberate our people and from an acknowledgement that accessing information and the capacity to express ourselves are critical to the creation of a more just and participatory democracy – as well as an realization that media owned and controlled by the private sector and state could not serve this purpose.
Community media projects have grown in number and have had fifteen years of often challenging experience since dawn of our democracy. Key questions have emerged that require collective and structured reflection. Amongst these questions:
The South African government (Department of Communications) is proposing legislating a Community Media Charter that would regulate the community media sector and enable the state to fund projects. You can access a copy of the gazetted Discussion Document on Public Broadcasting.as well as various organizational responses here.
The conference will lay the basis for a Popular Media Mindblast and NCRF Biannual General Meeting in December 2009 by developing aspects of the programme, mapping the issues, developing provisional positions, and engaging leaders in the process. You can find a draft programme for the conference here.
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