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Electronic Consultation

  • Electronic Consultation was launched 20 April 2006

1. PRACTITIONERS – Thursday 20 April – Wednesday 3 May.

2. OWNERS – Thursday 4 – Wednesday 17 May.

3. TRAINERS – Thursday 18 – Wednesday 31 May.

4. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS – Thursday 1 – Wednesday 14 June.

5. SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS – Thursday 15 – Wednesday 28 June.

In the final 2 weeks of the electronic consultation, issues raised will be revisited, and participants will be asked to clarify and flesh out their proposals.

To view the discussion go to
http://www.dgroups.org/groups/AMDP/index.cfm

 

The ‘Media Support’ segment of the e-consultation is now at an end. The Moderation Team is in the process of preparing a report highlighting your contributions in some detail, and this report will be sent to you by e-mail in the near future. In the meantime, please find below a short summary of the Recommendations and Proposals that have emerged from this e-consultation. The e-consultation will remain open to provide you with the opportunity of elaborating on existing recommendations and proposals, and adding new proposals not covered so far. Each participant will be allowed a single posting. Only concrete proposals will be approved.

For those of you who may have been having problems receiving emails from the dgroup, please go directly to http://www.dgroups.org/groups/AMDP to catch up on recent contributions.

Many thanks for taking part, and best wishes

The Moderation Team
‘Strengthening Africa’s Media’

Media Ownership:
-  Conduct analysis of different models of media funding and co/ownership to inform strategies for economic sustainability of African media.
-  Develop and enact an African code of conduct for media owners.
-  Put in place measures to ensure media owners remunerate their journalists fairly.
-  Provide more generous operational budgets for researching stories.
-  Enact media freedom /freedom of information/ and diversification/ pluralism laws.
-  Exempt non-profit media from government taxes.

Media Practitioners:
- Call for the revision of repressive media laws.
- Develop and enact a regional code of ethics for journalists.
- Promote self-regulation of media practice.
- Establish more professional networks (such as the African Economic Editors Network).
- Establish a regional award for good journalism.

Media Training:
- Develop and implement value-added exchange programmes promoted within Africa.
-  Set up an annual forum for media trainers, and put in place mechanisms for media trainers and the media industry to interact.
-  Develop special needs training for managers and editorial staff in state-run media making the transition to public media.
-  Develop in-house training policy for media houses that promotes sequential and on-going learning.
-  Standardize training by providing competency testing and academic recognition.
-  Utilize the knowledge and skills of retired media managers and editors to provide in-house support/training.
-  Offer ICT training to media working in both rural and urban areas.

Media Support:
- Promote adoption by all African governments of the Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.
- Establish African media support organization-led mechanisms to monitor implementation of the Windhoek Declaration and other relevant declarations and protocols.
- Establish a Media Trust Fund to invest in media infrastructure, build capacity and strengthen coordination in media support by the Multilateral Development Banks.