Global Forum for Media Development Begins Today in Athens
Today, the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), funded in part by Knight, begins four days of meetings in Athens with 400 representatives from 100 countries to discuss the importance of media development to economic prosperity.
"The GFMD aims to promote co-operation within the media development sector, to strengthen the quality of planning, evaluation and work carried out, and to enhance the impact of media development." (link)
You can watch the live webcast during sessions, read the live blog posts like this one from Persephone Miel, and follow the #GFMD08 tweets on Twitter, a micro-blogging service.
Knight News Challenge winner Guy Berger (project: The News is Coming) is attending the conference, and a few hours ago he Twittered a resource (the mediaME wiki) for sharing tools:
What would you like to see the GFMD discuss?
December 9th, 2008 at 2:48 am
A later tweet advised that the wiki will go live in January. My presentation on the Knight project we are doing is blogged at: http://nml.ru.ac.za/blog/guy-berger/2008/12/08/it-journalism.html
December 9th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Thanks, Guy, and great to have an update on your project. I'm very interested in how the haiku journalism part develops--