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Global Information & Communications Policy

With increasing globalization, the relentless assault of so called "Free Trade" and the unbridled advance of technology, information and communications policies are increasingly global in nature yet economic and political forces seek to usurp the control and purpose of communications infrastructure to the benefit of their bottom line and the prejudice of the vast majority of the rights of human beings across the planet.

This panel from the 2007 NCMR / National Conference for Media Reform brought together principals in media and consumer protection fields from four continents to discuss how they are confronting this challenge in order to promote and expand freedom of expression, freedom from repression, and access to information and knowledge that can improve the lives of, and advance social justice for, billions of people throughout the world.

The panelists were...

• Gene Kimmelman / Moderator
  Consumers Union
• Luiz Fernando Marrey Moncau / 
  IDEC / Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor
• Rosemary Okello-Orlale / Executive Director
  African Woman and Child Features Service
• Bjarne Pedersen
  Consumers International
• Andrew Puddephatt / Director
  Global Partners & Associates
• James Love 
  Consumer Project on Technology

NCMR / The National Conference for Media Reform is a project of Free Press...

a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector.

The 2008 NCMR will take place in Minneapolis / 6 - 8 June

Click here to watch or here to listen to Part 1 of the program.
Click here to watch or here to listen to Part 2 of the program.