Development, Governance and the Media
The POLIS conference background paper was prepared by James Deane, Communication for Social Change Consortium, and is available here as a PDF. There were four afternoon sessions, for which the briefing papers are also available:
Session 1: Media and Power: How can the media hold governments in developing countries, international financial institutions and donors to account? (Mark Wilson, Panos)
[word version here]
Session 2: Media and the Millennium Development Goals: Advocacy or debate? What role for the media in achieving the MDGs? (James Deane, Communication for Social Change Consortium)
[word version here]
Session 3: Media and new technology: can the digital revolution boost the impact of African media on development and governance? (Gerald Milward-Oliver, The Anima Centre)
[word version here]
Session 4: Media and fragile states – where governments are 'unwilling or unable' to perform their basic functions, should we abandon media development altogether? (Anna Da Silva, BBC World Service Trust)
[word version here]
A full conference report will be available in June 2007.