[cma-l] Aswatona 2015 community media conference, 26-28 Feb, Rabat

[Steve Buckley]

*Aswatona 2015 community media conference*

*26-28 February 2015, Rabat, Morocco*

The fourth Aswatona conference on community media in the Arab world, will
take place in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, 26-28 February 2015, under the
theme 'All Our Voices', in partnership with "Forum des Alternatives Maroc
(FMAS)". The three day annual event will provide community broadcasters
with an opportunity to network and advocate for better media law and
regulation.

Mohammad Leghtas, the coordinator of the Maghreb-Machrek portal *ejoussour*,
a program of Forum des Alternatives Maroc, said the Aswatona 2015
conference will give a big push to the growing civil society interest in
communications. “We have been working hard at creating the right
infrastructure to enable community radio and holding the conference in
Rabat will give us a big push forward.”
Steve Buckley, Managing Director of Community Media Solutions, said the
holding of the fourth regional conference of the Aswatona network is a
testament to community media stakeholders' commitment to mutual support and
greater recognition in media law and policy. "The growth of community media
in Morocco is an indicator of a vibrant civil society and a desire for
alternative voices to be heard including those of women, youth, rural
communities and minorities."

The conference will feature government and expert speakers from  Morocco,
the Montreal-based World Association of  Community Radio Broadcasters
(AMARC) and Daoud Kuttab founder/director of the Jordan-based Community
Media Network as well as practical workshops.

Aswatona’s steering committee consists of community broadcasters in
Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen. Previous
regional community media conferences of the Aswatona network were held in
Tunis 2012, Cairo 2013, and Jordan’s Dead Sea 2014. The conference is
supported by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the European Union
programme "Media and culture for development in the Southern Mediterranean"
and Copenhagen based, International Media Support, together with local
authorities in the Kingdom of Morocco.


*For further details visit: http://aswatona.net/category/en
<http://aswatona.net/category/en>*
*or contact Eman Jaradat: eman at cmso.co.uk <eman at cmso.co.uk>*
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