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GLOBAL & INTERNATIONAL LINKS

Africa Online - African Independent News (English & Español)

Alternatives International
Un réseau d’organisations établies au Niger, en Afrique du Sud, en Inde, au Brésil, au Maroc, en Israël, en Palestine, en France et au Canada.

AMARC/World Association of Community Broadcasters (multilingual)
International non-governmental organization serving the community radio movement.
Aim: To guide community radio along the principles of solidarity and international cooperation.
Approach: Creates programs to support and contribute to the development of community and participatory radio.

America Latina en Movimiento (ALAI-Net) (Español, Portugueis, Francais & English)

Association for Progressive Communications (multilingual)
An international network of civil society organizations.
Aim: To empower and support groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment.
Approach: Strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), including the Internet.

The Broker
The bimonthly magazine The Broker and its associated website and email newsletter are published by the Foundation for International Development Publications (IDP), in Leiden, The Netherlands. The Broker aims to contribute to evidence-based policy making and better formulated research questions in the field of poverty reduction and international development. The Broker helps policy makers, practitioners and scientists to make a better use of the results and conclusions of recent and ongoing research and evaluations, in the fields of economics, governance, security and science & technology.To reach its objective The Broker reviews and provides independent journalistic analyses of research of both the public and private sector research and evaluations of both government and NGO development programmes.

Center for International Media Action
Aim: To be an information-exchange space for groups using advocacy and activism to change the media system.

Climate Action Network (CAN)
A worldwide network of over 450 Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. CAN members work to achieve this goal through the coordination of information exchange and NGO strategy on international, regional and national climate issues. CAN has seven regional offices which co-ordinate these efforts in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Europe, Latin America, North America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

The Communication Initiative (multilingual)
Aim: The Communication Initiative is a partnership of development organisations seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication interventions for positive international development.
Approach: The C.I. strategy includes provision of real-time information on communication and development experiences and thinking, facilitating horizontal linkages between people engaged in communication action, peer commentary on programmes and strategies and taking opportunities to promote strategic thinking on communication and development issues and problems.

Communication for Social Change Consortium
An international nonprofit organization working in developing and industrialized countries. Its goal is to build local capacity of people living in poor and marginalized communities to use communication in order to improve their own lives. CFSC was chartered in June of 2003 in the United States to work globally as a registered public charity.

Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS)
Aim: Campaign sponsored and supported by the Platform for Communication Rights.
Approach: Informally convenes and organizes with groups of members on specific issues related to media transparency, diversity, participation and social and economic justice.

Directory of Social Movements (also in Español & Francais)
The directory of social movements is a data bank that gathers, sorts and puts information on the social movements around the world at the disposal of militant activists. The information is of two kinds : files describing the organizations and networks that make up the social movements, and articles that put the development of the social movements into context. The files and articles are linked up to each other, so that the logic and roles of the social actors in forming social movements can be seen in perspective.The directory has two main aims. One is to promote communication and the building of bridges between the social movements and networks in different countries and continents and who are working on similar issues (but also different ones). The other aim is to provide an empirical and analytical basis for understanding the dynamics of the social struggles and their convergences. The organizations are the following:Latin America : Observatorio Social de América Latina (OSAL) Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO); Asia : ARENA (Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives) : Hong Kong; North Africa : Arab and African Research Centre : Cairo, Egypt; North America : Alternatives : Montreal, Canada; Europe : CETRI (Centre Tricontinental) : Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

The Durban Group for Climate Justice
An international network of independent organisations, individuals and people's movements who reject the free market approach to climate change. We are committed to help build a global grassroots movement for climate justice, mobilize communities around the world and pledge our solidarity with people opposing carbon trading on the ground.

Foro Mundial de Alternativas (also in English, Italiano, Portugueis, Francais and Arabic)
El Foro Mundial de Alternativas (FMA) es una red internacional de centros de investigación destinada a apoyar los proyectos emergentes de la convergencia internacional de los movimientos sociales y otros actores de la sociedad civil de base. Lo hace construyendo los espacios de reflexión y coordinación, poniendo a disposición de los movimientos sociales y ONGs, las herramientas de información y análisis sobre mundialización de las resistencias y contribuyendo a la difusión de los conocimientos de las luchas internacionales en curso.

Global Campaign for Free Expression - Article 19
International coalition funded by governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Aim: To combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression and access to official information.
Approach: Strengthens local capacity to monitor and protest institutional and informal censorship; monitors, researches, publishes, lobbies, campaigns and litigates on behalf of freedom of expression wherever it is threatened; develops standards to advance media freedom, assists individuals to speak out and campaign for the free flow of information.

Global Forum for Media Development
Bringing coherence, community and advocacy to the worldwide movement of media assistance providers, independent radio and television broadcasters, print media journalists, media activists, media law advocates, and government and private donors supporting independent, local media and professional journalism.

Global Knowledge Partnership
Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is the world's first multi-stakeholder network promoting innovation and advancement in Knowledge and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development. GKP was founded in 1997. The network comprises over 100 members spanning 50 countries. It is governed by an elected Executive Committee and supported by a Secretariat based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
GKP brings together Public Sector, Private Sector and Civil Society organisations with the goal of Sharing Knowledge and Building Partnerships in Knowledge and ICT for Development. GKP activities and programmes foster the innovative application of knowledge and technology to address and solve development issues in four strategic themes - Access to Knowledge, Education, Poverty Reduction and Resource Mobilisation. GKP operates globally as well as in 8 regions: Africa; Europe; East Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean; Middle East and North Africa; North America; Oceania and South Asia. GKP members demonstrate ideas through projects on the ground; and they influence policy at a global level.

Global Voices Online (multilingual)
Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.

Independent Media Center Indymedia
Network of collectively run media outlets; established in 1999 to provide grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle.
Aim: To foster and facilitate the development of as much independent media as possible around the world
Approach: Promotes the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth; maintains a decentralized and autonomous network of news.

Information Society Watch - India

In Media Res a mediaCommons project
In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship.
Scholars worldwide curate a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response.The clip/comment combination are intended to both introduce the curator's work to the larger community of scholars (as well as non-academics who frequent the site) and, hopefully, encourage feedback/discussion from that community.Theme weeks are designed to generate a networked conversation between curators. All the posts for that week will thematically overlap and the participating curators each agree to comment on one another's work.The goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media and provide a forum for more immediate critical engagement with media at a pace closer to how we typically experience mediated texts.

Instituto del Tercer Mundo (also in English)
El Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM) realiza actividades de información, comunicación y educación a nivel nacional e internacional sobre temas vinculados al desarrollo y el medio ambiente. Es una organización de la sociedad civil, al servicio de la sociedad civil, que estimula la participación ciudadana en los procesos globales de toma de decisiones.

The InterActivist Network is a collaborative effort, an activist communication resource, an independent media project and a technology skill sharing project. Through the Info Exchange and Skills Share, IAN offers new, dissenting and thoughtful perspectives on local communities and disseminates information about news-worthy events overlooked or misrepresented by mainstream media.

Interlocals (multilingual)
A website for the non-english speaking world to communicate with each other on their social, cultural, and political issues through the collective efforts of a group of media activists, in translating local news and debates into an international context and in entering a dialogue with each other concerning the cultural, socio-economic and political background of their own locality.Apart from countering the homogeneous and distorted representation of international, as well as national news agencies on / within the non-english speaking world, this website aims at facilitating a border crossing exchange among people from different cultural and geographic areas in issues that are crucial for world peace and social transformation.Interlocals will also facilitate border-crossing research on grassroots journalism and media activism.

Internews Network
An international non-profit organization for independent international news.
Aim: To supports open media worldwide.
Approach: Fosters independent media in emerging democracies, produces innovative television and radio programming and Internet content, and uses the media to reduce conflict within and between countries.

International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA)
A global network of arts councils and ministries of culture aimed at benefiting artists, arts organisations and communities worldwide.

The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC)
An international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. It is in consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council. It works in building women's capacity to use international laws to promote and protect their rights. It also facilitates women's particpation in global policy making, particularly at the United Nations. With a commitment to empowering people and building communities, IWTC provides communication, information, education, and organizing support services to women's organizations and community groups working to improve the lives of women, particularly low-income women, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

Minority Rights Group
MRG is the leading international human rights organisation working to secure rights for ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous people around the world.MRG works with minority communities, providing education and training to enable them to claim their rightful place in society. We lobby governments and the United Nations alongside and on behalf of minorities. They publish authoritative reports that are widely valued by academics and journalists, while our pioneering legal cases programme is advancing the protection of minorities under international law.The work offers overwhelming evidence that the inclusion of minority communities leads to stronger, more cohesive societies. We believe it is clear that exclusion can result in instability, conflict, and in the most extreme cases, genocide. MRG has worked with over 150 partners across some 60 countries for more than 40 years to promote peaceful coexistence and sustainable social change.

Native Networks / Redes Indígenas
Indigenous media portal launched in 2001 by the National Museum of the American Indian. The site provides information about new productions and media makers, current areas of special interest and accomplishments in the field. Also in Spanish.

Nodo50 (Global with base in Spain)
Nodo de Contrainformacion en la Red.

One World Media Center / One World International
International nonprofit foundation registered in the UK with offices throughout the world.
Aim: To be the online media gateway that most effectively informs a global audience about human rights and sustainable development.
Approach: Offers training in TV production, provides direct access to TV production equipment, serves as an educational and vocational resource, and facilitates the distribution of community productions locally, nationally and internationally.

Open Channel Network of Community and Public Access Television stations affiliated with MediaChannel.org.
Aim: To support public stations and free speech.
Approach: Offers international links related to the local and global movement for the Freedom of Speech.

Peoples Communication Charter
A membership movement initiated by the Third World Network (Malaysia) and the Center for Communication & Human Rights (Netherlands).
Aim: To promote communications rights on an international level.
Approach: Provides the basis for a permanent critical reflection on those world-wide trends that determine the quality of our lives; mobilizes support for the Charter by initiating a process of ratification and exchange of ideas by individuals and social movements.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Media Network (multilingual)

Social Text - Participatory Media Education Resources
The participatory media learning materials on this site are meant to help people learn and teach the new literacies by inquiring into their significance as well as by learning their use through direct practice.

Tactical Technology Collective
An international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work. We provide advocates with guides, tools, training and consultancy to help them develop the skills and tactics they need to increase the impact of their campaigning.

Telecentre.org
A community of people and organizations working together to improve the social and economic impact of grassroots telecentres. Site also in French, Spanish and forthcoming in Arabic.

UNESCO Communication and Information Sector
Develops and funds programs to broaden access to ICTs and promote their use for education, strengthen libraries and archives, preserve documentary heritage, train journalists and promote free press.

UNESCO WSIS PLAN OF ACTION
UNESCO and the WSIS plan of action.

Women Action Network
The WomenAction initiative aims to cooperate and build on existing networks and collaborative partnerships. It aims to be a global information, communication and media network that enables NGOs to actively engage in the Beijing+5 review process with the long term goal of women's empowerment, with a special focus on women and media.

The World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network (WITBN)
A new global alliance aims to unify television broadcasters worldwide to retain and grow indigenous languages and cultures.
The launch of WITBN was a key outcome of the inaugural World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference (WITBC ’08) hosted by Māori Television in New Zealand in March this year. Taiwan’s indigenous broadcaster, TITV – a member of Taiwan’s public broadcasting group, PTS – will host the next conference in 2010.T he WITBN Council foundation members are APTN (Canada); BBC Alba (Scotland); Māori Television (Aotearoa New Zealand); NITV (Australia); NRK Sami Radio and Television (Samiland, Norway); TG4 (Ireland); TITV/PTS (Taiwan); S4C (Wales); and SABC (South Africa).

World Pulse
a media enterprise covering global issues through the eyes of women, dedicated to listening to and broadcasting the unheard voices and innovative solutions of women worldwide.

ZNet - The Spirit of resistance Lives
ZNet is a huge website with thousands of files and diverse facilities. The ZNet top page provides a good overview of all features and especially the newest content. ZNet is a component of Z Communications. ZNet subsites focus on particular places in the world, such as Iraq Watch and Mideast Watch, or on particular topics, such as Economics or Gender - as well as on types of essay such as Debates, Interviews, and Reviews, and finally also on Vision and Strategy and particularly Participatory Economics, or Parecon.

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