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28 Feb 2020 Gender responsive media & ICT will accelerate the achievement of SDG 5

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Marceline Nyambala Women’s voices and faces remain in short supply in mainstream/legacy media, although growing slowly over the 25 years since the 1995 Beijing conference, that put forward Article J on Women and Media among other articles. It would seem as if women’s voices in media have...

28 Feb 2020 Bringing visibility to national and local women’s rights actors

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Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls During 2019, it has been interesting to hear through the UN system a reference to the Peace, Development and Humanitarian Nexus approach, which a number of us have been communicating – because that is our reality. Just as climate security does not mean militarisation of...

28 Feb 2020 Manifeste pour une justice numérique

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Cédric Leterme Le 25 novembre dernier, en marge de l’Internet Governance Forum (IGF), à Berlin, un réseau d’activistes et d’intellectuels a publié un « manifeste pour la justice numérique » intitulé « un Appel à prendre en main notre avenir numérique ».1 L’objectif ? Se réapproprier un « pouvoir numérique » aujourd’hui concentré...

28 Feb 2020 On the Screen (MD 2020/1)

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Warsaw (Poland) 2019 At the 35th International Film Festival Warsaw 11-20 October 2019, the award of the Ecumenical Jury went to Omar ve biz (Omar and Us) directed by Maryna Er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er (Turkey, 2019). Motivation: The contact with two Syrian refugees leads a...

24 Feb 2020 Civil society has a chance to regain the high ground

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Surveillance and loss of privacy are watchwords in the digital transformation of societies worldwide. Who is watching us and for what purposes? Who is infringing private spaces and closing down public spaces? When it comes to communication infrastructures and technologies, accessibility and affordability are no longer enough, simply because neither governments nor corporate entities can be trusted to play fair.

17 Feb 2020 Giving migrants a voice – and others a history lesson

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National Public Radio (NPR) in the United States is demonstrating the importance both of giving a voice to migrants in media, and of ensuring the independence of the public broadcasting platform. As reported by another public broadcaster, BBC (“The immigrants telling stories history missed” 10 February 2020, two young radio producers, one with Iranian and the other with Palestinian backgrounds, are leading a new podcast series that highlight stories that most people have missed in their history lessons.

09 Nov 2019 MD 2019/4 Editorial

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This issue of Media Development is not the first in which the journal has turned its attention to the Caribbean. In 1998, with contributions by communication stalwarts such as Aggrey Brown, Lawrence D. Carrington, and Patrick A.B. Anthony, we published “Communication Issues in the Caribbean”....

09 Nov 2019 From little brown boxes to mediated interpersonal communication

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Kimiko Scott In the early days of broadcast media, people gathered around “little brown radio boxes” (Re-diffusion boxes) (Jamaica Gleaner, 2001) to stay connected to what was happening around the world and to be entertained by audio dramas and music countdowns. The content aired was provided...

09 Nov 2019 Reflections on the telecommunications liberalisation agenda in the Caribbean

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Embert Charles In May 2020, the small states of the Eastern Caribbean – Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines – will observe the 20th anniversary of the enactment of legislation to liberalise the telecommunications sector. Those...

09 Nov 2019 Digital surveillance and surveillance capitalism in the Caribbean

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Peter Richards When he spoke at a Caribbean Telecommunication Union (CTU) event marking its 30th anniversary in April 2019, Grenada’s Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Mitchell, who has the lead responsibility for Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) quasi cabinet, was confident that...