Welcome to the OURMedia Network
OURMedia Network [Red Nuestros Medios] is a global network of scholars and practitioners working since 2001 in the areas of alternative, community, and citizens' media. The OURMedia Network 9th International Conference will take place in JAMSHORO, PAKISTAN, from October 4-9, 2010. Download the CALL FOR PROPOSALS in English, Spanish, Urdu and French.

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OURMedia 9 Conference – Pakistan
New Media & Emerging Democracies
Conference Streams
Stream 1:
Citizen’s media in different types of democracies and stages of democratic processes
Coordinators:
Jeanine El’Gazi | jeanine.elgazi@gmail.com
Nisar Zuberi | nisarazuberi@yahoo.com
Background & Justification:
The 2010 International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference opened in Braga, Portugal on July 18-22. Download the Book of Abstracts for the Community Communication Section where several OM members are presenting their latest research.
AMARC 10 Global Conference 2010
AMARC announces that the 10th World Congress of Community Radio Broadcasters will be held from 8 to 13 November 2010 in Ciudad de la Plata, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This will be the first Global conference of community broadcasters to be held in South America, where community radios were born 60 years ago.
International Media Support published in July 2009 a report titled Media in Pakistan: Between radicalisation and democratisation in an unfolding conflict. Scroll down to Download report in English (pdf).
Ayele Eshetu, member of AMARC-Africa and Desta Tesfaw the Director of Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority (EBA) jointly published a new book. This book contained 13 chapters within its 258 pages and written in Amharic, an Ethiopian national language used all over the country. It is focused on the concepts and establishment of community radio and intended for communities who are in the process of starting a CR or for those who are already on air.
Tanya Notley writes
10 tactics for turning information into action embraced by thousands of rights advocates
The documentary 10 tactics for turning information into action , produced by Tactical Tech and launched in December 2009, has been screened at over 100 events by NGOs, rights advocates and independent media, reaching 5155 people.
OURMedia 9 - October, 2010 in Pakistan
[Below: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Persian and Urdu (also as attachments)]
Shawn Sobers writes
Community Media Association (CMA), have launched their arts strategy which focuses on establishing creative and enduring collaborations between the arts and the community media sector. The strategy was developed with support and input from Arts Council England and Voluntary Arts Network.
Over the next 18 months CMA aims to enhance participation and engagement in the arts by reaching out to wider audiences through community media and encourage arts content through these mediums.