Media Trends and Challenges

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Media Trends and Challenges

• Manisha Mishra
• UNDP Asia Regional Centre
• Colombo Office

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Media has a crucial role in achieving the MDGs
Voice Space Monitoring
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Development Partners meeting in 2004

• Communication is fundamental to both inform
  and amplify the voices of those with most at
  stake and which address the structural
  impediments to achieving these goals. However,
  such strategies remain a low priority on
  development agendas, undermining achievement of
  the MDGs

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Media Trends and Challenges
Liberalization Commercialization No
transformation towards Public Service
Broadcasting
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Media Trends and Challenges

• Increasingly networked
• societies
• Converging technologies

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Media Trends and Challenges

• Media is increasingly seen to serve
  parochial interests

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Media Trends and Challenges

• Donor pressures for advocacy vis-à-vis
  voices from the ground
• Highest bidder syndrome
• Seminar fatigue

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How Can UNDP Make a Difference?

• Its convening and facilitating role
• Its advocacy and advisory role
• Its focus on national capacity development
• Its expertise and experience in democratic
  governance

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