[cma-l] AMARC at OM7

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From: secretariat at si.amarc.org <secretariat at si.amarc.org>


For its 25th Anniversary in Africa, AMARC Announces Active
Participation in OUR MEDIA 7

Montreal, 4 August, 2008. The World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters AMARC announced today that it will be very actively
participating in the Our Media 7 Conference to be held in Accra, Ghana
from August 11 to 15, 2008. The activities will be part of the
celebration of the 25th anniversary of AMARC, the unique global
network of Community Radio. Within the framework of Our Media, African
members of AMARC Africa will be carrying an important consultation
workshop entitled "What Vision for a Community Radio Network in
Africa: Rebuilding the AMARC Africa Network" in preparation of the Pan
African Conference and general Assembly to be held by AMARC African
members in April 2009.

Founded in 2001, OURMEDIA is a global network with the goal of
facilitating a long term dialogue between academics, activists,
practitioners and policy experts around citizen media initiatives. OUR
MEDIA is about building an alternate world, rooted in local knowledge,
anchored in strong identities but also connected to global networks,
open to "otherness" diversity and inclusion. OUR MEDIA 7 is coming to
Africa for the first time and AMARC is actively involving itself in OM
7. For further information on OM7 visit http://ourmedianetwork.org

OUR MEDIA 7 has selected three sub themes – Identity, Inclusion and
Innovation – that are key dimensions of alternative communication.
Community Radios members of AMARC consider this to be a very good
opportunity for reflecting on the social impact of the 25 years of the
AMARC community radio network in several areas, to explore the new
challenges facing community radio (gender, governance and inclusion;
digital radio; legal frameworks, impact assessment mechanisms), and
congratulate Radio Ada on its 10th anniversary. Furthermore, AMARC
Africa will use the OM7 framework to hold a consultation workshop to
define the vision for the rebuilding of the AMARC Africa network
entitled "What Vision for a Community Radio Network in Africa:
Rebuilding the AMARC Africa Network" . For further information on
AMARC activities at the OM7 please go to:

http://www.amarc.org/index.php?p=25_anniversary_Ghana

Through service to members, networking and project implementation, the
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC, brings
together a network of more than 4,000 community radios, federations
and community media stakeholders in more than 115 countries. The main
global impact of AMARC since its creation in 1983, has been to
accompany and support the establishment of a world wide community
radio sector that has democratized the media sector. AMARC advocates
for the right to communicate at the international, national, local and
neighbourhood levels and defends and promotes the interests of the
community radio movement through solidarity, networking and
cooperation.

For further information visit http://www.amarc.org