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.