Llamado para democratizar la comunicación
ALAI, ALER, APC, OCLACC, Minga Informativa de Movimientos Sociales

El siguiente llamamiento fue elaborado a partir de los debates sobre democratización de la comunicación en el III Foro Social Américas y presentado en la Asamblea de Movimientos Sociales.

Barack Obama will face what could be "the mother of all consumer backlashes" early next year when TV signals go digital on February 19 and millions of households -- perhaps 20 percent nationwide -- lose their television signal, said Mitchell Szczepanczyk of Chicago Media Action. He cites shortcomings in the government's voucher program for digital converters.

Caribbean Network of Community Multimedia Centres -- 2nd Regional Workshop/Conference: Creating Content, Facilitating Learning, Building Networks
http://www.wikieducator.org/Community_Media/Caribbean/Workshop_Outline

An engaging four-day community media workshop for Caribbean community media practitioners; sponsored by UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) as a follow-up to workshops held in Suriname (2005) and Jamaica (2008).
Dates: 19-22 November 2008
Location: St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Objectives

21st Century Key Communication Challenges at the heart of the 25th Anniversary of AMARC Celebration

Civilmedia 08: Cultures - Participation - Dialogue
Salzburg, December 4 - 6, 2008
http://civilmedia.eu

Adapting the topic of this year's "European Year of Intercultural
Dialogue" the central question of the 3rd Civilmedia will be:
What meaning, impact and challenges do arise by participatory media production (Web, Radio, TV) in respect to intercultural dialogue? The UnConference is participant-driven and again open for your contributions. There is no conference fee.

The Uruguayan Network of Community Infocentres (RUTELCO) organized the Second National Conference 'Communication for the Community', on 25 October 2008, in Masoller, a small village situated 500 km north of Montevideo. More information: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27730&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_S...

Message in-a-box: Tools and tactics for communicating your cause. Message in-a-box is a set of strategic guides to using communications tools for social change, together with a suite of open source tools to get you making your own media.The toolkit is designed for small and medium-sized NGOs, advocates, and citizen journalists to help them create and distribute content for their advocacy efforts while exploring the constantly evolving world of campaigning and communications.

La Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias en América Latina y Caribe (AMARC-ALC) presenta ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) en Washington, Estados Unidos., los “Principios para un Marco Regulatorio Democrático sobre Radio y TV Comunitaria”. AMARC ALC solicita junto a otras organizaciones civiles que se elabore un estándar en la materia, tomando como insumo principal el documento con los “Principios para un Marco Regulatorio Democrático sobre Radio y TV Comunitaria”. (disponible en OURmedia resources).

English: OURMedia member Jeremías Tunubalá is initiating a massive march with his Misak (Guambiano) community in Colombia. You may remember Jeremías as one of the presenters in OURMedia 4 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The Misak community is joining a massive indigenous demonstration convened by the Nasa community in Southern Colombia.