AMARC organizing Citizen's Media Seminar in Hong Kong

 

May 14, 2010, Kathmandu. World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters,
AMARC is organizing a Citizen's Media Seminar in Hong Kong on May 28, 2010,
at the Centre for Civil Society Studies, the Chinese University of Hong
Kong. 

 

The purpose of the Seminar is to create a platform for exchange of
information, knowledge, and ideas about good practices regarding citizen's
and community media in the Asia Pacific region as well as Globally. The
seminar will highlight some of the citizen's and community media friendly
legislation from the region. It will provide a collective and creative
platform for policy discussion and advocacy. The seminar will serve as a
forum for knowledge sharing and will contribute towards advancing citizens'
and community media in Hong Kong and in the neighbouring regions. It will
bring together local and international citizen's and community media
activists, practitioners, scholars and policy makers to discuss the relevant
issues. The seminar is being organized 

 

Participants representing India, Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines, and UK
among others will share best experiences and will define how AMARC can help
community based citizen's media more effective in pursuing and achieving
developmental goals. Recommendations from the seminar will be carried
forward to the strategic action plans to be finalized at the upcoming AMARC
10 global community radio conference (http://amarc10.amarc.org/) to be held
in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November 2010. 

 

For further information, please contact Suman Basnet, Regional Coordinator
for Asia-Pacific, [log in to unmask]

 

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About AMARC:

AMARC is an international non-governmental organization serving the
community radio movement in over 110 countries, and advocating for the right
to communicate at the international, national, local and neighborhood
levels. AMARC has an International Secretariat in Montreal. It has regional
sections in Africa, Latin America and Asia Pacific and offices in
Johannesburg, Buenos Aires, Brussels, and Kathmandu. For more information,
please visit www.asiapacific.amarc.org <http://www.asiapacific.amarc.org/> .