[WSIS CS-Plenary] My new gig: the Media Research Hub

[Meigs]

Le 24/03/06 21:21, « Rik Panganiban » <rikp at earthlink.net> a écrit :

Hi Rik

Congratulations on your new task. I cannot but agree on your career move as
it represents a real need.

I have just finalized a Media Education Kit for Unesco, in which i try to
support the idea of having educators, professionals and researchers come
together around the complex issues related to media, democracy and public
awareness. I hope we can stay in touch for the development of your new
projects.
Best
Divina Frau-Meigs


>  Hi all,
> 
> As colleagues of mine working in relevant fields, I wanted to give you all a
> heads up on the new project I¹m working on related to media reform and
> democracy.
> The Social Science Research Council (http://www.ssrc.org), a distinguished
> non-profit that supports social science research in the public interest, has
> hired me as the program coordinator of their "Necessary Knowledge for a
> Democratic Public Sphere" program (http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media/ ).  
> My job will be to help bring together media reform advocates with media
> researchers so they can collaborate more effectively together.  There is
> apparently a huge need for better coordination and communication among
> activists and academics in the field of media reform.  Our main mechanism for
> facilitating this will be the launch next month of an online ³Media Research
> Hub² that will support a broad community of media reform actors with various
> tools for collaboration and information sharing. 
> It's a rather dramatic departure from my United Nations portfolio of the past
> 10 years or so. But I will remain engaged with international public policy
> issues, which is wonderful.  And I will get to work on cutting-edge stuff like
> the effect of the blogosphere on traditional media, broadband access to
> underserved areas, community wifi, low power FM, and lots of other cool new
> media areas.  
> The good news is that we have the funding to support various activities such
> as sponsoring targeted research, supporting interns, and organizing physical
> meetings to link key actors.  But as a first step we are going to want to make
> sure that we are linking to the most relevant and active networks of media
> reform activists and academics. If you have suggestions for networks and
> coalitions that I should plug into, particularly outside of the US, that would
> be really helpful. 
> (Note that my new work contact details are below.)
> Regards and Do Stay in Touch,
> Rik
>  
> Rik Panganiban
> Program Coordinator
> Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere
> Social Science Research Council
> 810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor
> New York NY 10019
> PH: 212.377.2700 x 644
> FX: 212.245.4232
> email:  <mailto:panganiban at ssrc.org> panganiban at ssrc.org
> <mailto:panganiban at ssrc.org>
> Web: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media
> 
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