[Media Caucus] Guidance

[Michel Bührer]

Dear Andrew and all
I am not specially up-to-date, but I met Alain Modoux the day before yesterday in Geneva. He was just back from South Africa where a conference took place. You are probably aware of it, but in case not, the website is: www.highwayafrica.org.za  Modoux delivered a communication in which he mentions  another meeting that took place in Bakou earlier. The journalists and media organisations issued a text about the conditions of participation in WSIS 2 in Tunisia.(full text + signatories included in Modoux's communication).

For your information: a group of representatives from journalists + media associations, human rights experts (HRW, AI, etc.) + observers (UNESCO, ICRC) met on the 20 and 21 of September to discuss  ways and means to better protect journalists in conflict zones. The group was quiet narrow for financial reasons, but is expected to broaden.You can find a report and the declaration on www.ifj.org  ("what's new").

Best
Michel Bührer
impressum-the swiss journalists (former Swiss Federation of Journalists)




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andrew Taussig 
  To: media at wsis-cs.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:55 AM
  Subject: [Media Caucus] Guidance


  Dear Tracey and colleagues,

   

  I shall be at the International Institute of Communications Conference (on whose steering committee I sit) in Jamaica - hosted by Cordell Green, CEO of the Jamaica Broadcasting Commission. - October 11/12. (Kathleem Abernathy, US FCC Commissioner and Globosat boss Alberto Pecegueiro will be there, among other speakers)

   

  I think I'm fairly up-to-date but are there any particular recent (post-Geneva) issues or points which anyone wishes to have highlighted?

   

  Andrew

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