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International Freedom of Expression eXchange Clearing House
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Date: 23 July 1996

SOUTHERN AFRICA: MISA to hold Annual Congress and Community Voices
Conference

ORIGINATOR: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Windhoek

MISA will be holding its Annual Congress & Community Voices
Conference from 6 to 11 October 1996 at the Club Makokola, on the
shores of Lake Malawi, in Mangochi, Malawi. Registration is
required by 9 August.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The community voices conference will bring together regional
organisations, independent media practitioners and the MISA
membership in order to strengthen ties and make an action plan for
the establishment and support of independent electronic and
community media in the region. The conference will also concretise
plans for the eastern & southern African network for community
media, and lay the groundwork for the establishment of the
southern African network for independent and democratic television
and video practitioners.

OUTLINE AGENDA

Sunday, October 6
#MISA Governing Council Meeting
#Conference Registration
#Press Briefing
#Welcoming Cocktail

Monday, October 7
#MISA Chairpersons Address
#What is Community Media?
#Role of Community Media Centres
#MISA Chapter Reports; Botswana, Malawi, Namibia

Tuesday, October 8
#Advocacy Training for Community Radio
#Building Community through Video & TV
#Role of Independent Production in Promoting Pluralism
#Building a Southern African Network for Independent and
Democratic Video & TV
#MISA Chapter Reports; Swaziland, Zambia, Angola

Wednesday, October 9
#Advocacy Training for Community Radio (Continued)
#Affirmative Action - Access to the Public Broadcaster
#Capacity Building and Training Needs for the Independent video
Production
#MISA Chapter Reports; Mozambique Tanzania, Lesotho

Thursday, October 10
#Sustainability and Funding for the Community Media Sector
#Capacity Building and Training Needs for Independent & Community
Radio

#Building the Eastern & Southern African Community Media Network

#MISA Chapter Reports; Zimbabwe, South Africa

Friday, October 11
#MISA Reports and Resolutions
#Future cooperation with SABA, Videazimut, Eastern & Southern
African Community Media Network

#MISA Press Freedom Award Dinner

For further information on travel, accommodations, fees and
registration, contact Conference Organiser John Barker   at MISA,
Private Bag 13386, Windhoek, Namibia, tel:+264 61 232975, fax:+264
61 248016, e-mail: johnb@ingrid.misa.org.na. Or, contact
Conference Coordinator Ellen Oosthuizen, 22 Melville Avenue,
Discovery, Roodepoort, 1709, South Africa, tel/fax: +27 11 674
4364, cellular phone: +27 11 83 268 6868.

The information contained in this press release is the sole
responsibility of its originator.
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