"This paper aims to be 'an analytical tool designed to help stakeholders assess the state of the media and measure the impact of media development programmes' (page 7). It has been prepared to define indicators of media development in line with the priority areas of the International Programme for t
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he Development of Communications (IPDC). It suggests five major categories of indicators, and each category is broken down into a number of component issues and sources of verification. The five categories are: a system of regulation and control conductive to freedom of expression; plurality and diversity of media; media as a platform for democratic discourse; professional capacity building and supportive institutions; and infrastructural capacity." (CAMECO Update 2-2008)
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"Hauptfunktion des wirkungsorientierten Monitoring ist es, die Steuerung von Entwicklungsmaßnahmen zu unterstützen sowie den Dialog über die eingeschlagene Strategie im Management- bzw. Projektteam und deren Aufsichtsgremien anzuregen – insbesondere im Hinblick auf die regelmäßige Operationsp
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lanung. Es fördert darüber hinaus Lernprozesse (Wissensmanagement) und legt die Grundlage für eine verlässliche Rechenschaftslegung [...] Das Monitoring organisiert die Prozesse der Sammlung, Analyse- und Bewertung von Daten zu den Wirkungen eines Projektes und den Veränderungen in seinem Umfeld. Es liefert kontinuierlich Hinweise darüber, ob der eingeschlagene Weg Erfolg verspricht, die Strategie angepasst werden sollte oder die gesetzten Ziele zu überprüfen sind. Ebenso geht es um die Beobachtung der indirekten Wirkungen. Sie stellen den eigentlichen Grund für die Durchführung des Projektes dar. Sie sind in der Regel Ziele nationaler oder sektoraler Strategien und Programme des Partners, des Schwerpunkts der deutschen EZ in einem Land oder ähnlicher Zielsysteme, z. B. von „country assistance“-Programmen der EU oder von Multi-Geber-Programmen. Wirkungen auf dieser Ebene können zwar einer Entwicklungsmaßnahme nicht mehr eindeutig, d. h. kausal zugeordnet werden, jedoch trägt sie durch ihre Leistungen plausibel zu deren Zielerreichung bei." (Aufgaben des wirkungsorientierten Monitoring, Seite 9)
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"This is an introduction to the collective marketing strategy with a regional and thematic emphasis on Nepalese community radio stations. In this publication, airtime is viewed as the "product" that all community radio stations sell, and which builds a link between them, as well as their mutual aim
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to contribute to the social progress of their communities. Hence, this publication suggests building partnerships to support each other in various contexts, eg, by sharing programmes on topics like immunisation, which are relevant for many radio stations, or by assisting each other in finding sponsorships or advertisers. The term "collective" refers to partnerships of Nepalese community radio stations amongst each other, either on a national or a regional level, or amongst those who have something else in common, although partnerships can also be built by community radio stations and commercial radio stations. The text includes an explanation of the principles of social marketing, and considers its specific features in relation to community radio. The desired structure and the underlying principles that follow this strategy are also discussed. All in all, the publication can inspire radio activists who wish to improve the programmes and the promotion of their radio stations by building a network with others." (commbox)
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"This is an overview of strategic planning tools designed for Nepalese community radios. In plane language, it introduces to the basics of strategic planning, situation and stakeholder analysis, long-term vision and guiding principles, identification of risk factors, definition of indicators and the
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implementation of strategic planning. Many graphs and tables illustrate and facilitate the use of the different concepts, as well as the concrete example of a strategic plan in the annex. Every issue is treated quite briefly, so maybe reading this manual will not be enough to really start a strategic planning process. Nevertheless, it serves the purpose of an introduction quite well." (CAMECO Update 3-2009)
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"This book is based on conclusion that ethics are nothing but a series of moral qualities. The first chapter, apart from tracing the history of ethics and throwing some light on the concept as such, tries to define ethics. The second chapter outlines the efforts surrounding enforcement of ethics in
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Nepalese journalism apart from reviewing the implementation them. Apart from defining community radio, the third chapter deals in detail with issues related to ethics in community mass media and related areas. In the fourth chapter, since ethics is not a basic or relative law, effort has been made to point out that ethics can undergo changes with time. Fifth chapter tries to incorporate laws which are attracted in the course of information dissemination. The sixth chapter carries differing ethics rendered into Nepali. That will contribute to the task of carrying out comparative analyses. Together with this, a compilation of the ethics enforced in Nepal until now have been carried as annexures." (Foreword)
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"Community broadcasters are united by six guiding principles. We will work to:
1. Promote harmony and diversity and contribute to an inclusive, cohesive and culturally-diverse Australian community
2. Pursue the principles of democracy, access and equity, especially for people and issues not adequate
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ly represented in other media
3. Enhance the diversity of programming choices available to the public and present programs that expand the variety of viewpoints broadcast in Australia
4. Demonstrate independence in programming as well as in editorial and management decisions
5. Support and develop local arts and music
6. Increase community involvement in broadcasting.
Throughout the Codes, community broadcasting licensees are referred to as ‘we’ or ‘our’. The terms are legally binding." (Guiding principles, page 3)
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"Blogs are more or less controllable for those who want to keep them under surveillance. Governments that are most up to do date with new technology use the most sophisticated filtering or blocking techniques, preventing them from appearing on the Web at all. But bloggers don't just sit back and let
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it happen. The essential question becomes how to blog in complete safety. With a normal IP address, a blogger can be tracked down and arrested. Anonymity allows them to keep their freedom.
In countries where censorship holds sway, blogs are sometimes the only source of news. During the events in Burma in the autumn of 2007, pitting monks and the people against the military junta, bloggers were the main source of news for foreign journalists. Their video footage made it possible to gauge the scale of the protests and what demonstrators' demands were. For more than two months, marches were held in the streets, then a massive crackdown was launched against opponents that only the Burmese were able to show, so hard did it become for the few foreign journalists who managed to enter the country to get back out with their footage. And bloggers could not get the footage out without getting round online censorship imposed by the government. This handbook seeks to help every blogger to fill in the "black holes" In news. The second part is devoted to techniques which can thwart filtering technology." (Page 4-5)
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"Gewerkschaften und Datenschützer fürchten um die Pressefreiheit: Immer neue Gesetze erschweren die vertrauliche Kommunikation per Internet und Telefon. Besonders stark betroffen sind Berufsgruppen, die bislang nur in Sonderfällen ausgespäht werden durften: Journalisten, Juristen und Ärzte. Doc
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h es ist möglich, die Kontrollen zu umgehen - ganz legal und ohne großen technischen Aufwand! Journalisten können auch weiterhin diskret Informanten kontaktieren. Oder Anwälte ihre Mandanten. Oder Ärzte ihre Patienten. Das Buch verrät, welche Techniken es gibt. Schritt für Schritt wird der Umgang mit Programmen gezeigt, die die Kommunikation anonymisieren, von der E-Mail über den Chat bis zur Internet-Telefonie. Der Leser erfährt, wie er Spuren auf Computern oder im World Wide Web verwischt. An praktischen Alltagsbeispielen wird gezeigt, welche Methode wann angewendet werden sollte. Dabei Setzt das Buch keine besonderen Computerkenntnisse voraus: Wer Surfen, Mailen und Office-Programme benutzen kann, bringt genug Wissen mit, um sich anonym im Internet zu bewegen. Das Buch behandelt außerdem zwei Spezialthemen: Wie kann man beim Telefonieren mit dem Handy seine Identität verschleiern? Und: Wie umgeht man die Zensur in Diktaturen? Das Buch eignet sich deshalb auch besonders für Auslandskorrespondenten und für Mitarbeiter von Hilfsorganisationen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This manual is intended to help you train non-governmental organizations working in HIV-related fields and People Living with HIV (PLHIV) Networks on how to work effectively with the media. The manual is based on Internews Network’s Local Voices Training Curriculum that was developed by the Kenya
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Local Voices Program in 2003-2005. This curriculum has also been implemented and adjusted where appropriate by the Internews Local Voices Programs in Nigeria, Ethiopia and India. The manual consists of a five day step-by-step training agenda. It is possible to modify this program for a four-day training by slightly shortening all the sessions. A workshop based on this training model that is shorter than four days would not be as effective, because there are several issues being addressed in the different modules that can’t be left out, as they all relate to one another. It works well to start the workshop on a Monday and end it on a Thursday or Friday. Local Voices workshops accommodate about ten participants per training. The training modules are practical and aimed at getting participants to apply their newly acquired skills during the workshop. Participants are required to organize an actual media event for the last day of their training. This event allows participants to gain real life experience organizing a media event. It also serves as an opportunity for participants to interact socially and to develop relationships with participating journalists so they can begin trusting each other and working together to produce accurate and compelling coverage." (Introduction)
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