Founded in 2001, OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios is a global network with the goal of facilitating a long-term dialogue between academics, activists, practitioners and policy experts around citizens' media initiatives.

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OURMedia Network is founded on the principles that, first, all communities and collectives need to communicate, to express themselves, to inform and be informed, to dialogue with others, and to network; and second, that every community and collective has the right to the appropriate communication and information technologies and know-how to meet its historical and cultural communication and information needs.

OURMedia provides a space for collaboration in which needs and alternatives can be identified in the areas of communication and information infrastructure, policy, and research. Ultimately, the goal of OURMedia is to design and develop initiatives that can strengthen citizens' media, community media, and alternative media in national and international policy arenas.

One of our main objectives in the middle term is to help establish citizens' media as a strong voice in the floors of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) and The World Social Forum (WSF), among other international forums.

Currently, OURMedia has more than 600 members, of which over 350 are currently active, they including researchers, activists, scholars, artists and media practitioners in over 50 countries around the world.

OURMedia has held 7 international conferences between 2001 and 2009

Washington D.C., USA (2001) - by a team coordinated by Clemencia Rodriguez, John Downing & Alfonso Gumucio Dagron
Barcelona, Spain (2002) - by a team coordinated by Nick Couldry & Clemencia Rodriguez
Barranquilla, Colombia (2003) - by a team coordinated by Clemencia Rodriguez
Porto Alegre, Brazil (2004) - by a team coordinated by Katherine Arboleda-Borg & Aliza Dichter
Bangalore, India (2005) - by a team coordinated by Joshva Raja & Ashish Sen
Sydney, Australia (2007) - by a team coordinated by Juan Francisco Salazar
Accra, Ghana (2008) - by a team coordinated by Wilna Quarmyne
Medellin, Colombia (2009) - by a team coordinated by Amparo Cadavid & Clemencia Rodriguez

Read the History of OURMedia Network (2001-2005) (the first 5 conferences) in this summary by Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

Read an Analysis of the OURMedia Network by Amparo Cadavid (In Spanish Only)

Check our map where OURMedia Conferences have been held from 2001 to 2008.

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Check our parallel project, the Alternative Media Global Project Wiki

The new website was developed by Russell Kerr and Juan F. Salazar and launched in August 2008. The website is maintained by Juan F. Salazar, University of Western Sydney, Australia and the Server is in Montreal, Canada. For comments please email at j(dot)salazar(at)uws(dot)edu(dot)au