OURMedia / NUESTROSMedios 6 Conference
Writing by admin on Tuesday, 10 of April , 2007 at 4:36 am
Kosala Keerthirathne, the projects research coordinator, was an invited speaker to the OurMedia 6 conference held in Sydney, Australia where he presented a paper on the activities of the etuktuk and the findings from his research.The OM6 Conference Organizing Committee received close to 200 proposals, from over 35 countries, including academics, activists, community media practitioners, artists, media and social researchers. Participants will represent over 60 universities and research centers worldwide (including 11 from Australia) and over 50 community media organizations, NGO’s and alternative media/arts collectives.
In line with previous meetings, OURMedia / NUESTROSMedios 6th Conference (OM6) aims at building strategies and collaborations among academics, non-governmental organizations, practitioners, artists and advocates for the promotion of communication rights, effective access to ICT, community and citizen participation in the media and community engagements that foster social change, women’s participation in the sector and cultural revitalization. The conference theme aims to explore the cultural and social significance of independent community and alternative media and the major challenges in the decades lying ahead. In this regard, OM6 positions itself as a unique event that bridges the work being done by action researchers, engaged academics, community practitioners and artists in order to promote and defend the spaces of alternative media for social justice, equality and inclusion as factors of social change and cultural development.
The OM6 Conference is bringing together international and national experts, researchers, policy makers, activists and local community development practitioners to discuss ways to ensure a sustainable future for building participatory community, alternative and citizen’s media. The conference is hosted by the School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney in association with the Centre for Cultural Research at UWS, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. Our community partner organization is Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), an organization based in Granville, Sydney.
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