The 5th AMARC Asia-Pacific Regional Conference served as a potent platform for local broadcasters to engage with community representatives, policy makers, researchers, subject matter experts and partners for discussing a collaborative way for charting the course ahead. It was a moment for re-defining and collectively recalibrating the community broadcasting sector of the Asia-Pacific region.
About the Event
The 5th AMARC Asia-Pacific Regional Conference was designed as a milestone in the annals of community media development. It coincided with a period in which citizens across the Asia-Pacific region and the world are experiencing brutal oppression of freedom of expression. Changing times, characterized by emerging climatic challenges, shifting political ethics, commercial interests and technological innovations, have brought the whole of humanity to a cross road. Community media requires urgent “Strengthening against Emerging Challenges and Embracing Opportunities”. The “Community Radio Conference 2023” was inspired as much by the historical evolution of community broadcasting as it was by persistent and new development objectives.
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Past Conferences
So far, four AMARC-AP regional conferences were held in Jakarta (Indonesia) in November 2005, Bangalore (India) in February 2010, Seoul (South Korea) in December 2013 and Yogyakarta (Indonesia) in November 2018. The declarations that were passed by the participants at the end of each conference as well as visual impressions can be found here. Yogyakarta, …
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