The OM6 Conference Organizing Committee received close to 200 proposals, from over 35 countries, including academics, activists, community media practitioners, artists, media and social researchers. Participants represented over 60 universities and research centers worldwide (including 11 from Australia) and over 50 community media organizations, NGO’s and alternative media/arts collectives from around the world.

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The inaugural edition of Global Media Journal -Australian Edition was dedicated to a special issue of OURMedia 6 Conference held in Sydney, Australia in April 2007.

In line with previous meetings, OURMedia / NUESTROSMedios 6th Conference (OM6) aims at building strategies and collaborations among academics, non-governmental organizations, practitioners, artists and advocates for the promotion of communication rights, effective access to ICT, community and citizen participation in the media and community engagements that foster social change, women’s participation in the sector and cultural revitalization. The conference theme aims to explore the cultural and social significance of independent community and alternative media and the major challenges in the decades lying ahead. In this regard, OM6 positions itself as a unique event that bridges the work being done by action researchers, engaged academics, community practitioners and artists in order to promote and defend the spaces of alternative media for social justice, equality and inclusion as factors of social change and cultural development.

The OM6 Conference is bringing together international and national experts, researchers, policy makers, activists and local community development practitioners to discuss ways to ensure a sustainable future for building participatory community, alternative and citizen’s media. The conference is hosted by the School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney in association with the Centre for Cultural Research at UWS, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. Our community partner organization is Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), an organization based in Granville, Sydney.

The OM6 Organizing Committee
Juan Francisco Salazar (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Penny O’Donnell (University of Technology, Sydney)
Ellie Rennie (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Tanya Notley (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Lena Nahlous (Information and Cultural Exchange, ICE)
Caitlin Vaughan (Information and Cultural Exchange, ICE)
Clemencia Rodriguez (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron (Communication for Social Change Consortium)

Gabi Hadl (Tokyo University, Japan)
Michael Meadows (Griffith University, Australia)
Jethro Pettit (IDS, Sussex University, UK)
Elvira Truglia (Social Justice Committee, Montreal)
Leo Berkeley (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
Tanja Dreher (University of Technology, Sydney)
Stefania Milan (European University Institute, Italy)
Antonio Castillo (University of Western Sydney)

COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES REPRESENTED AT OM6
Australia, Argentina, Bangladesh, Basque Country, Bolivia,, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, China, Chinese Taipei, Ethiopia, Fiji Islands, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, México, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, Turkey, UK, Uruguay, USA.

ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTED AT OM6

Allameh Tabatabai University, Iran
Anadolu University, Turkey
Association for Progressive Communications
Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Australian Photojournalist Magazine
Boatpeople.ORG, Australia
Bytes for All, India
Cardiff University
Carnegie Mellon University
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association
CitizenShift, Canada
Communication for Social Change Consortium
Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
Community Radio Center, Timor Leste
Community Radio Support Centre, Nepal
Community Radio Station 4ZzZ
Curtin University of Technology
EHU-UPV (University of the Basque Country)
EngageMedia Australia
European University Institute, Italy
femLINKPACIFIC: Media Initiatives for Women
Foundation for Media Alternatives, Philippines
GEM TV, Ethiopia
Ghana Community Radio Network
Griffith University
Hiroshima International University
HI8US, UK
HK-inmedia.org,
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University
Interlocals.net
International Women’s Tribune Centre
IPILI FM, Papua, New Guinea
Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE)
Institute for Popular Democracy, Philippines
Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Indymedia Japan
Jimbonet, South Korea
Kothmale Community Media Centre, Sri Lanka
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Macquarie University
MC Media & Associates, Australia
Media Alliance, USA
MEDIACT, South Korea
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Murdoch University, Australia
National Ethnic Multicultural Broadcaster’s Council, Australia
National Film Board of Canada
New York University
NewsWatch Canada
NPO Terere, Japan
Ourplanet-TV Japan
Osaka City University
Panos London
PPN, Palestine
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Australia
Shih Hsin University, Taiwan
Shiney Pictures, Australia
Simon Fraser University
SquatSpace, Sydney, Australia
Source Watch
Southern Illinois University
Swinburne University of Technology
TAFE NSW
Television for Education - Asia Pacific
Université de Poitiers, France
Universidad del Norte , Colombia
Universidad de las Américas, Mexico
Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
University of Auckland, New Zealand
University of Bedfordshire, UK
University of Education, Freiburg, Germany
University of Melbourne
University of Minnesota
University of Oklahoma
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Queensland
University of San Francisco
University of South Australia
University of Southern California
University of Sydney
University of Technology, Sydney
University of Tokyo
University of Toronto
University of the Philippines
University of the West of England
University of Western Sydney
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Vibewire, Australia
Virus Media, Sydney, Australia
Voice (Voices for Interactive Choice & Empowerment), Bangladesh
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
Yale University
2RRR Community Radio, Australia