Globe International Center, a media-rights based Mongolian NGO, is organizing the “National Media Conference” on October 29-30, 2013 at the Chinggis Hotel’s conference hall with the financial support of the US Embassy, the Embassy of Canada, Transparency International-Mongolia and Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO.
Globe International Center, in collaboration with the Association of Mongolian Journalists, the Press Institute and the Transparency Fund, has completed a Media Development Assessment of Mongolia using UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators(MDIs), which were endorsed in 2008 by UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) through a broad international consultation.
The Media Development Indicators are comprised of 50 main indicators and 194 sub-indicators to assess the complex issues within the media sector. Each category of the MDIs is broken down into a number of component issues which in turn contain a series of broad indicators. This comprehensive set of MDIs is a unique and powerful tool for assessing the overall environment and development of the media sector in a given country and it has been recognized by a multitude of stakeholders, including media institutions, as an important tool for guiding media development efforts.
The National Media Conference will bring together more than one-hundred stakeholders from across the media sector (public and private broadcasters as well as media associations), the national government and legislators, the civil society, as well as national and international experts. The Conference will ultimately elaborate and develop a set of recommendations for the improvement of Mongolia’s media sector.
During the Conference the following five parallel sessions will be held:
1. A system of regulation conducive to freedom of expression, pluralism and diversity of the media
2. A system of the legal environment of broadcast media, ownership and concentration
3. A climate of self-regulation, trade unions and professional associations
4. Journalism education and training
5. Infrastructural capacity, Internet, public broadcasting, and the involvement of civil society
GIC’s international partners and media experts will participate in the Conference and contribute to the development of Mongolia’s media sector by sharing their experience, knowledge and best practices.
The set of recommendations will be delivered to the Government and the necessary steps for the development of an independent, professional, responsible, free and pluralistic media will be outlined for future implementation.
Globe International Center
Phone: 324627, 324764, 99035470, 99193327
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