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.