[ecrea] 7 June 2010: Media, Empowerment and Development - Project Launch & Capacity Building Seminar, Copenhagen

>Media, Empowerment and Development: Strategies to explore information
>and communication needs of citizens
>Project Launch & Capacity Building Seminar
>
>7 June 2010
>
>Venue: MS ActionAid Danmark, Fælledvej 12, 2200 København N.
>Lokale A - Auditorium
>
>Introduction
>The Danida-supported research project People Speaking Back? Media,
>Empowerment and Democracy in East Africa (MEDIeA) was launched in Dar
>es Salaam in December 2009. The project, running from 2009 to 2013,
>comprises of a team of 6 researchers (see http://mediea.ruc.dk). It
>explores how civil society-driven
>media platforms in Kenya and Tanzania enhance ­ or not ­ social
>processes whereby youth in the region can engage in public debate and
>participatory governance.
>With this seminar, two objectives are pursued:
>To launch the MEDIeA research programme, its sub-projects and its key
>development objectives, to a relevant Danish constituency of researchers
>and
>practitioners working with similar issues.
>To share experiences and discuss the methodological challenges of
>exploring information and communication needs of citizens. How do we in
>practice research such needs, and how can relevant stakeholders ­ UN,
>civil society and academia - make use of the insights generated?
>We will draw on three international experiences in exploring this
>question. Firstly, the director of UNDPs Governance Centre in Oslo will
>present UNDPs experiences with communication for empowerment as a
>working methodology to inform policy development. Secondly, the British
>anthropologist Jo Ann Tacchi, based in Brisbane Australia, will
>introduce the anthropological method EAR (Ethnographic Action
>Research) which she has developed and applied in a series of Asian
>countries. Thirdly Jesper Lauridsen, former country officer to MS in
>Kenya, now head of ActionAids global governance program, will speak
>about how they explore the issue of information and communication needs
>of citizens from a governance perspective.
>
>Program
>9.00 Welcome and Introduction to the Programme
>
>9.15 People Speaking Back? Media, Empowerment and Democracy in East
>Africa. Introducing the Research Program.
>by Thomas Tufte, RUC
>
>10.00 Communication for Empowerment
>by Bjørn Førde, director, Oslo Governance Centre
>
>10.45 Coffee
>
>11.00 Ethnographic Action Research (EAR)
>by Jo Ann Tacchi, Associate Professor, University of Queensland
>
>11.45 Enhancing citizens information and communication rights
>Jesper Lauridsen: MS/ActionAid: Global Governance Program
>
>12.15 Lunch
>
>13.15 Theory and practice ­ is there resonance or dissonance?
>Workshop activity: Connecting MEDIeAs research agenda vis-à-vis the
>different stakeholders way of working with media, empowerment and
>democracy.
>
>14.15 Coffee
>
>14.30-15.30 Discussing workshop outcome & Panel debate on seminar issues
>
>Venue: MS ActionAid Danmark, Fælledvej 12, 2200 København N.
>Lokale A - Auditorium
>
>Registration: online on our website: http://mediea.ruc.dk
>
>--
>Nikita Junagade
>Project Assistant / Projektmedarbejder
>Media, Empowerment & Democracy in East Africa (MEDIeA)
>and Glocal Network on Media and Development (Glocal NOMAD)
>
>Roskilde Universitetscenter
>Institut for kommunikation, virksomhed og informationsteknologier
>Universitetsvej 1, bygn. 44.3
>Postboks 260
>4000 Roskilde
>email: (nikita /at/ ruc.dk)

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