Community Communications for Development in the Digital Age
From “Fighting Poverty: Community Media and Communication for Development in the Digital Age”:
Access to the means of voice and communication is central to a people-centred approach to development both for its intrinsic human importance and its rola in shared culture, access to knowledge and education, civic participation in decision making, ensuring good governance through accountability and providing other tools that assist the achievement of development goals. This has been acknowledged repeatedly in major international development reports such as the World Development Report, the Final Report of the United Nations Millennium Project and the Commission for Africa Report among others.
Community media has a vital role to play in giving access to voice and communication for poor and marginalised groups. Frequently excluded from mainstream media. It has had a central impact on development and is of increasing relevance in the context of new information and communication technologies and the trend towards more liberalised communications environments. The impact and value of community media has been repeatedly demonstrated over many years most centrally in its central and critical role in Nepal in the recent peaceful transition to a new democracy.”
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Community Media, Community Radio, Development, Independent Radio, Media Policy
