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World Bank Institute Global Programs
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| | and complements existing work in governance, |
| | public sector reform, and access to |
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| | With the guidance of this book, broadcasting |
| | policy and regulation can be tackled as a |
| | mainstream development topic, with important |
| | consequences for government transparency, |
| | government accountability, and enabling |
| | disadvantaged constituencies to voice their |
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
10:00am - 12:00 pm
World Bank Main Complex
MC4-800
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC
Refreshments will be served
For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
INTRODUCED BY
Daniel Kaufmann
Director of Global Programs and Governance, World Bank Institute
Mr. Kaufmann is a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to
countries on governance and development and has pioneered new
approaches to analyze country governance as well as survey
methodologies and indicators for good governance and anti-corruption
programs around the world. He has previously held positions at the
World Bank which include managing a team on Finance, Regulation and
Governance, heading capacity building for Latin America, and also
serving as Lead Economist both in economies in transition as well as
in the Bank's research department. He is also a member of the World
Economic Forum (DAVOS) faculty.
MODERATED BY
Kreszentia Duer
New Business Development Leader, World Bank Institute
Ms. Duer manages a technical assistance program to strengthen
policies, institutions, and capacities for Civic Engagement,
Empowerment, and Respect for Diversity (CEERD) in developing
countries (worldbank.org/ceerd). Her thirty years of development
experience, leadership and management roles at the World Bank
include rural poverty, urban development, environment, social
development and education, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and
Eastern Europe. She is a member of the International Editorial Board
of the journal, Policy Sciences.
PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Steve Buckley
President, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
Managing Director, CM Solutions
Mr. Buckley is a communications policy expert and media development
advisor who has worked with governments, UN agencies and
non-governmental organizations. He has been President of the World
Association of Community Radio Broadcasters since 2003. He is also a
member of the International Council of IFEX. He has been a speaker
at numerous international conferences and events on media,
communications and development and has authored many related
reports, book chapters and policy papers including, among others,
for the UK Department for International Development, UNESCO, UN ICT
Task Force, the World Bank, Institute for Development Studies,
Social Science Research Council and the Ford Foundation.
Toby Mendel
Law/Asia Programmes Director, ARTICLE 19, Global Campaign for Free
Expression
Mr. Mendel is the author of numerous books and articles on issues
such as broadcasting, the right to information, defamation and other
freedom of expression issues. He has worked extensively on media
law issues in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, running
training seminars, advising governments and local NGOs, critiquing
laws and taking cases to both national and international courts.
Seán Ó Siochrú
Director, NEXUS Research, Dublin, Ireland
Chair, Dublin Community Television
Spokesperson, Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information
Society (CRIS)
Mr. Ó Siochrú has published many books, chapters and articles on
media and communication issues, and works with international
agencies and NGOs across the world. He has over twenty years
experience in international communications and media assessment,
regional economic issues, and local development activities. He was
also Secretary General and Treasurer of the MacBride Round Table on
Communications, which meets every year in a different country to
debate global communications issues.
Monroe Price
Director, Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School
for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Law,
Cardozo School of Law
Director, Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, London
Mr. Price works with a wide transnational network of regulators,
scholars, and practitioners in Europe, Africa, Latin America and
Asia as well as in the United States. He has published several
books, chapters, and articles on media issues. His recent books
include ?Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution
and its Challenge to State Power? (MIT, 2002) and ?Owning the
Olympics: Narratives of the New China? (University of Michigan
Press, 2008, edited with Daniel Dayan).
Marc Raboy
Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications and is a
Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies,
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Mr. Raboy has been a consultant to various international
organizations including the World Bank, UNESCO, the Council of
Europe and the European Broadcasting Union and is the author and
editor of numerous books and articles on media and communication
policy.
DISCUSSED BY
Eric Chinje
Manager, Africa Region External Affairs, World Bank
Mr. Chinje was Editor-in-Chief and News Anchor at the national
television in Cameroon, a journalism lecturer in the School of Mass
Communications (University of Cameroon), a contributing reporter to
CNN World Report, and a stringer for Deutschewelle (Voice of Germany
Radio), the BBC and Voice of America. He has written, published and
lectured on Media and Development in Africa. He is an Officer of the
Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau and of the Cameroon Order of Valour, an
Honorary Member of the Memphis City Council, a former Patron of the
Cameroon Friends of Nature Society, and a Board Member of the Rwanda
Foundation, the Women's Economic Empowerment Network(WEEN), and the
Zambia Orphans of AIDS (ZOA) committee.
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