Salzburg Global Seminar




Just Released! The new Strengthening Independent Media website! The Salzburg Global Seminar is currently building and testing a fully revised website for the SIM project, which was launched Monday, October 5 in time for the 2009 meetings. The website will allow donors and media development specialists that are not in Salzburg in person to follow the daily conversations, ideas, and proposals, and to post their own thoughts on the most pressing questions and issues that arise. Please click here to access the new site! http://sim.salzburgglobal.org GFMD World Conference - December 7-10, Athens, Greece The second Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) World Conference took place in Athens, Greece from December 7-10, 2008. The first GFMD World Conference, held three years ago in Amman, Jordan attracted more than 500 media development NGOs from 97 countries. Since then, a steering committee has operated on behalf of its members and a permanent secretariat has been established in Brussels. read more... Majority of Americans Support Maintaining or Increasing Global Health and Development, says new Kaiser Family Foundation Poll read more... Internews Calls on Obama Administration to Offer Greater Support for Local, Independent Media Around the World read more... GFMD Announces 2009 Goals - Putting Media on the Development Agenda read more... CIMA Advisory Council Meeting: Report from Washington, DC read more... Paul Collier's Keynote Speech at GFMD World Conference in Athens December 7-10, 2008 read more...	Paul Collier Paul Collier Speaks to Participants at the Salzburg Global Seminar's Strengthening Independent Media Initiative There is a case to be made for public money to be leveraged effectively for global media development. Paul Collier explains why. On Sunday, October 5, 2008, Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at Oxford University and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, spoke to the participants of 2020 Vision: Setting a Long-Term Agenda for Global Media Development, the first meeting of the Salzburg Global Seminar's Strengthening Independent Media Initiative. read more... Ellen Hume: "independent media need support in many regions if they are to serve the goals of civic participation and government accountability...." Sina Odugbemi: "The watchdog role requires that news media provide a check on powerful sectors of society,..." Marguerite Sullivan: "only free and independent media can ensure that citizens get the kind of information they need: broad, deep, detailed, and uncensored..." David Hoffman: "The Salzburg Initiative shines a needed spotlight on the difference that news and information make in people's lives..." James Deane: "the media can be as important as elections in enabling fragile democracies to become truly democratic..." Sasa Vucinic: "if one "joint research and development arm" for the whole media assistance sector were to be established - it would look exactly like this initiative of the Salzburg Global Seminar."

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