The purpose of this project is to build the capacity of ethnic minorities in Northern 'aimags' of Mongolia to produce and exchange information of local importance in local languages, as well as to establish a permanent communication channel between these communities and the rest of the country. It aims at enhancing the role of the media in promoting multilingualism, cultural diversity and indigenous knowledge exchange. It will focus on two ethnic minority groups that live side by side in the Khövsgöl Lake area: the Tsaatan and the Darkhad. These groups have been chosen because of their...
Regions: Asia and the Pacific
Rural communities of such small countries as Kyrgyzstan often undergo a shortage in information that is relevant for improving their living standards and eradicating poverty. Such shortage is due to insufficient ICT infrastructures and by the increasing digital divide. However, the country intends to join the world knowledge society by creating a Community Media Centre (CMC) intended to 'include the excluded'. One of the main conditions to raise the capacity of disadvantaged people in the field of ICT is to promote establishment of a multimedia centre including a community radio station...
Many countries in the Asia-Pacific Region present serious concerns in gender imbalances and inequities in employment opportunities, female participation and the portrayal of women and girls. This project designed in line with The Beijing Platform for Action for Equality, Development and Peace, which places specific obligations on the media, both in the way women participate and in how they are portrayed and has objectives that require signatory nations and their citizens to ‘increase the participation and access of women to expression and decision-making in and through the media and new...
CRST FM104 is the only radio station licensed to broadcast from Tafea Province (which includes the 5 most southern islands of Vanuatu) to the people of Tafea Province. It is the only licensed community radio station in the country. The national broadcaster, the VBTC (Radio Vanuatu and Television Blong Vanuatu), commercial FM radio stations, other national media outlets including newspapers are generally not able to be seen or heard in Tafea Province which results in its people being unable to receive updates on events taking place across the Province, as well as nationally and globally....
Although provincial radio stations exist in more than ten provinces in Cambodia, most of their main contents or programs are the relayed programs from the Radio Nationale Kampuchea (RNK) in Phnom Penh. Therefore, most of the programs do not serve the needs of the community people since the information needed by provincial people are different geographically. It is important that community people who are the target listeners of those provincial radios get the most from the local programs. Provincial radio stations generally lack professional capacities of media workers / program producers...
Myanmar, a developing and war-torn country, is currently undertaking a comprehensive democratic reform process initiated with the appointment of a civilian government in March 2011, which continued with the parliamentary election held in April 2012. The transformation towards a democratic setting is also involving the media sector, for which the Government has embarked into a substantial legal reform and announced that it will take necessary measures to enable a free, pluralist, professional and diverse media to flourish. In this context, during the International Conference on Media...
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