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Gabi,
You should also contact Irish regulators Broadcasting Authority of
Ireland (BAI) we have had some success in terms of regulating
community media and the authority has been very supportive. A contact
person would be Ciaran Kissane.
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Good luck.
Jack Byrne.
On 14 Jun 2010, at 04:06, G wrote:
> Dear OURmedia friends,
> (apologies for cross-posting)
>
> Urgent question regarding independent regulation agencies.
>
> In Japan, the government (constantly changing though the members
> are) is
> considering finally (!) an independent broadcasting agency (so far
> airwaves
> directly regulated by ministry of interior). A civil society group
> called
> ComRights is feverishly gathering information on good examples (and
> some bad
> ones) of independent regulating agencies from around the world. Does
> anyone
> know of existing comparative studies or have on hand detailed info
> about the
> independent regulators (independent from the government) of specific
> countries?
>
> Japanese colleagues are already currently collecting info from US, UK,
> France and Germany (and I have found some comparative data on EU
> country's
> regulators), but hints for good examples in other countries would be
> welcome
> and some notably bad ones too (word so far is: FCC is not so good-
> though
> unfortunately now being considered as the main model- the planned
> regulatory
> agency is even dubbed 'Japanese FCC', OFCOM is better, the regulator
> in
> Germany's Northrhine-Westfahlia is pretty good. Any insights on
> that?).
>
> We'd be interested also on information on how regulators relate to the
> community media sector(s) in each case (I've found some information
> on that
> in comparative community radio reports).
>
> Please feel free to pass this question on to other people and lists
> who you
> think may have leads, but when forwarding please cut out my e-mail
> address
> in the header and instead include the signature below.
>
> Gabi
> ghprof(at)me.com
>
> PS: They are for now looking at broadcasting authorities ONLY, as the
> convergence law draft is on hold for the moment and industry bodies
> 'self-'regulate internet, game industry, etc. But obviously many
> countries
> regulators cover multiple platforms, and this may also happen in Jp
> eventually.
>
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