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WSIS Video Diaries - Global

Country

India, Russia, Sri Lanka, Uruguay

Region

Global, Africa, South Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America

Programme Summary

OneWorld TV is working with a team of young journalists filming reports at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, December 10-12 2003. Several young video journalists from India, Sri Lanka, and Uruguay will cover a number of topics explored at the Summit, sharing their perspectives through online reports and video diaries. The purpose of this programme is to give young people a voice in the media being produced as part of the international event.

Communication Strategies

This initiative uses technology to involve young people in media coverage of the WSIS. Young reporters are attending the Summit, and will share their perspectives and experiences with global audiences using a video camera and the Internet. Two young women - Claudia Abend from Uruguay and Monjima Sinha from India - and a team from Young Asia TV (Sri Lanka) will upload regular video reports, interviews, and diaries to One World TV site. Those who access the WSIS Diaries on the One World TV site can listen to and watch each of the young reporters prior to and during the Summit sessions.


The young video journalists will attend the debates, workshops, and other events at the WSIS, the ICT for Development Platform, and related meetings. They aim to cover issues like access to technology, governance of the Internet, open source software, local content, gender issues, youth and the media, mainstream and community media, and others.


Additional video "clips" on the One World TV site provide background information and details on the WSIS. Topics covered include:

  • What can we expect from the Information Summit?
  • How do ICTs for Development work?
  • Open Knowledge Network launches at WSIS
  • Kofi Annan meets the inventor of the web
  • Russian truck brings medical aid through ICT

Development Issues

Youth and the Media, Technology.

Contact

OneWorld International Ltd
2nd Floor, River House
143-145 Farringdon Road
London EC1R 3AB UK
Tel.: +44 (0) 20 7833 8347
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7833 3347
justice@oneworld.net
One World TV site

Source

Posting to the Young People's Media Network dated December 10 2003 (click here for the archives); One World TV site.


Placed on the Communication Initiative site December 10 2003
Last Updated December 10 2003

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