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This page contains resources on the use of ICTs in the media industry, as well as the use of new media in advancing social and economic development. The resources look at how digitization and technological convergence, and the new media have contributed to or hindered increase access to education and health services, good governance, and improved lives of poor and marginalized groups.
Convergence between telecommunications, cable, satellite, mobile phones and traditional broadcasting means that the media industry is no longer confined to television, radio and print publications. Television, for example, converged the technologies of movies and radio, and is now being converged with the mobile phone. Mobile phones are not only used for phone calls and messaging, but also used to capture and distribute images and videos, access the radio and television, and download music and news from the Internet.
Digitization enables the transmission of all kinds of communication signal, including voice, data, video, graphics and music over a network, and has contributed to the rapid rate of convergence. This has led to the growth and popularity of new media – e.g. blogs, social networking sites, virtual communities, online chat rooms and Wikipedia. New media shows promise to be more open and can be operated by individuals and social groups, and provides an unprecedented level of user control and interactivity.
At the same time, they also open up new censorship and surveillance mechanisms. This relates to legal and regulatory issues that can result in opportunities, as well as marginalization of some social groups. The development and delivery of digital content using new media is growing rapidly, but who is included in the content creation process, who will be able to use the new channels for distributing that content, and who has access to these content created. Issues related to capital, skills, infrastructure, interoperability and piracy are examined in these resources.
Bhutan Information, Communications and Media Act 2006
The Act provides: functions, responsibilities and powers of the Ministry of Information and Communications; the establishment of the Bhutan Infocomm and Media Authority; provision of ICT facilities and ICt services; provisions relating to radiocommunications; provisions relating to media issues; provisions relating to cyber issues such as e-governance, e-commerce, consumer protection and online privacy; and offences, penalities and legal proceedings.
Digital Video: Sharing Lessons for Poverty Reduction
This paper reflects findings of ENRAP’s experiences in the use of digital video a as tool for development over the period April 2004 to February 2006. It answers the following questions: How could a short training on digital video spread over 10 days support poverty alleviation activities? Would this help improve awareness and appreciation of the medium? To what extent could it build skills, if any? What kind of post-training support would be required and what mechanisms need to be put in place to ensure this? What kind of financial and other support would be needed for the equipment?
Voices of Change: Strategic Radio Support for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
This paper provides a summary of the scope of radio's involvement in underpinning sustainable livelihoods, realizing rights, human development and the broader goals and targets of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. It challenges donors to increase support to the radio sector, which for many poor men, women and children in the developing world continues to provide the essential information lifeline. The paper highlights the relevance of radio in poor communities, its broad applicability to a range of sectoral activities such as health, rights, education, livelihoods and conflict prevention, and identifies the need to strengthen the capacity of radio broadcasters at all levels to conduct effective monitoring and evaluation, so as to begin the process of developing a rigorous information and communication for development evidence base which highlights radio's - and other communications mediums - strategic contribution to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals.
ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit
The online Kit aims to promote and support linkages between new and traditional media for development through a structured set of materials. It is a growing collection of 'workshop kits' for face-to-face training. The materials use a standard set of templates, and offer building blocks for trainers to build their own courses. Materials include introduction to: various ICT tools and applications, digital audio production, media archiving, secure online communication, wireless networking, producing content for radio, and on issues such as gender and HIV/AIDS, ICT policy and advocacy, and technology planning.
Communication for Development: A medium for innovation in natural resources management
The document presents, through stories and examples, the experience of many people and projects worldwide where communication methods and approaches have been applied to address NRM problems. These lessons will help decision makers, planners and practitioners understand why and how communication for development activities can support sustainable natural resource management and rural development efforts.
The Media & the Information Society
This publication highlights the importance of the media in general, and further to create greater awareness of what can be done to help media promote the concept and goals of the Information Society. It covers main three topics: mass media as a fundamental part of the Information Society; mass media as a channel for debating and shaping the Information Society; and the key issues and challenges.
Bhutan's Media Impact Study
This study charts the progress and development of the media in Bhutan and identify key issues that need attention. This study focuses on the impact of traditional mass media - primarily print, broadcast, and film/music - as well as the new multi-media – Internet. It proposes a number of recommendations drawn from an analysis of Bhutan’s experience with the media. The recommendations are also placed in a global perspective, the experiences of other countries that are very relevant to Bhutan as it joins the information society.
The One to Watch: Radio, New ICTs and Interactivity
The cases presented in this book are among the first examples of the convergence of radio and new ICTs for development, and the book underscores the significant potential of the combination. This book is not concerned with how individuals or communities can interact with radio stations or the Internet via instant polling, phone in radio programmes or remote broadcasts from the town market. Instead it focuses on interactivity as a social communication process – on how radio, in combination with the Internet, can better inform people about themselves and the world, stimulating (interactive) communication within and between communities, and leading to a common understanding of problems and to common proposals for their resolution.
(in Korean)