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COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT IN SIDS: MAURITIUS STRATEGY AND CI

COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT IN SIDS: MAURITIUS STRATEGY AND CI. Recognize the importance of cultural identity of people and its importance in advancing sustainable development in small island developing states. Mauritius Strategy (Para 55) Access to and use of ICTs

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COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT IN SIDS: MAURITIUS STRATEGY AND CI

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  1. COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT IN SIDS: MAURITIUS STRATEGY AND CI

  2. Recognize the importance of cultural identity of people and its importance in advancing sustainable development in small island developing states • Mauritius Strategy (Para 55) • Access to and use of ICTs • Development of Community Multi Media Centers • ICT literacy • Skill Development • Local Content Development

  3. Some Snap shots: Media Situation in Small Islands • High connectivity costs • Distribution problem for Print media • Transmission difficulties in scattered islands • High staff turnover • Lack of training opportunities • Lack of local programme content . Particularly in TV • Poor economic viability (lack of critical advertising income)

  4. Some Snap shots: Media Situation in Small Islands • Radio: the most penetrative and widely used medium • Funding public radio has become essential • Community media/community access to information have more potentials • Media production networks

  5. IPDC and SIDS Media Development in SIDS – IPDC plays a major role; IPDC has implemented more than 150 media development projects (40 national projects in the Caribbean, 39 in the Pacific, 21 in Other regions covering 32 SIDS) amounting to a total of 3 million US$ dollars. It also implemented 61 regional projects in the Carribbean and the Pacific

  6. Communication Projects Project types • All Media: 42 projects • Community Multimedia Centres: 12 projects • Multimedia: 10 projects • News Agencies: 5 projects  • Print Media: 12 Projects • Radio Broadcasting: 14 projects • Media training:  19 projects • TV content : 10 projects • Media Law: 1 project • Communication Network : 5 projects • Archiving and preservation projects • Media literacy: 2 19 New IPDC projects approved for SIDS in 2004/05 ($ 497,000)

  7. ICT Literacy, Content preservation • Introducing Media Literacy: UNESCO Associated Schools Network in the Pacific • Libraries and archives in the Pacific

  8. Partners • Pacific Island News Association • Pacific Island Broadcasting Association • University of the South Pacific • Caribbean Broadcasting Union • CARIMAC • Caribbean CMC Network (12 CMC led by Radio TOCO) • National Broadcasters • Community Radio Organizations

  9. IPDC Projects 2004-2005 Pacific Projects Total: US$ 497 000

  10. IPDC Other SIDS Projects

  11. IPDC 2004/2005 Caribbean Projects

  12. Help to Voice the Small Island Voices UNESCO/IPDC Seeks Voluntary Contributions to support Media and Communication Development in the Small Island Developing States. IPDC Contributors (2004-05): Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Jamaica, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Republic of Korea, USA

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