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Day 2 Session 8
Purpose of Media Rights Monitoring
OBJECTIVE:
To provide a basic introduction to media rights monitoring, and to develop a shared understanding of the value of monitoring media rights. Participants will be able to identify the need to monitor, discuss the differing reasons and outcomes of monitoring, and discuss the qualities and skills of a good monitor (the session is condensed and may not have time to address fully the qualities and skills of a good monitor).
Why monitor ?
Inform people
Consider implications
Curiosity
Suggest solutions
Suggest improvements
Keep subject on their toes
Ethics
Seeking to protect media groups
Ensure elections are fair
Assist peacekeeping processes
Civilians
Economy
Disaster relief
Legislative processes
Prison conditions
Violations of journalists rights.
From Project XIX, inaugural meeting of the Pacific Freedom Forum, in support of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Held 6-8 May 2009, UNESCO conference centre, Apia, Samoa.
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options for pff name, logo, vision and programs
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Three groups came up with three sets of options for the future name, logo, vision and program areas of the Pacific Freedom Forum.
group 1
pff name logo and vision
group 2
pff name logo and vision
group 3
pff name and vision
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pff name logo and vision
. . .Group 1 consultancy
Logo: status quo
Name: Pacific Media Freedom Forum Inc.
Vision:
1. To act fast to protect and defend media freedom in the Pacific
2. To advocate media freedom in the Pacfiic
Program Areas:
Monitoring
Engagement / dialogue
Support
Funding
Training
Awareness
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group 1 pff name logo and vision
group 2 pff name logo and vision
group 3 pff name and vision
Options for name, logo, vision and programme areas were discussed among one of three groups at Project XiX, the inaugurual meeting of the Pacific Freedom Forum. Any addition in italics.
pff name logo and vision
. . .Name: Media Freedom Pasifika
Logo: new
Vision: A free and responsible media
Program Areas:
1. To respond quickly to any threat or abuse of media
2. Monitor (Support and advice to practitioners)
group 1 pff name logo and vision
group 2 pff name logo and vision
group 3 pff name and vision
All additions italics.
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pff name and vision
. . .Feedback from one of three groups on the PFF name and vision:
Name: PFF as an acronym stays, use Pasifika instead of Pacific
Logo: same
Vision options: 1. A united, free and vibrant media. 2. United for a free and vibrant Pacific media
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group 1 pff name logo and vision
group 2 pff name logo and vision
group 3 pff name and vision
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transparency update | avaiki nius agency | pacific freedom forum
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NEWS | BEHIND THE SCENES
draft profiles | editorial board | pacific freedom forum
At the height of controversy over police detaining, intimidating and interrogating journalists in Fiji, regional colleagues were just as fixed on behind-the-scenes debate on transparency and accountability.
End result?
Strong support from members of the Pacific Freedom Forum for establishment of an editorial board with contributing editors, some private, most public.
TRANSPARENCY
Why are some forum editorial board members being kept secret?
As members of the forum followed events blow-by-blow from all corners of Fiji, they also traded ethical blows over - should there be secret editors at all?
In the end, members agreed there was as much call for some secrecy at the editorial board level. A public profile as a conduit for national security debate would no doubt end up fairly quickly with a pounding on the door at four in the morning.
A FEW WEEKS
A few weeks ago, later.
Since then avaiki news agency has been busy researching wrong and right ways of publishing news from the forum, getting lost in a number of ethical chicken-or-egg conundrums, a few technical logic-loops. Friends at PICISOC will get a laugh from that, snearing as this agency has been about lengthy delays from generally accepted, web1 IT people.
But the wait is over, ethics conundrummed, logic-unlooped.
OUTCOMES
A draft profile will be published online at Pacific Islands Nius Online, an industry-owned, agency monitored web2 "overlay" for existing, traditional web1 sites participating on a "fair use" or voluntary basis, such as editorial opinion pieces for global distribution.
In the interests of transparency and accountability, avaiki nius agency will present a series of formal proposals to various media fora, as consultants like to say, that may be accepted or rejected as members see fit, wise and hopefully, invigorating for the media industry as a whole.
Long story, short: this agency is dedicated to developing not just media capacity, but media centrality. Not just here, in our region, but as our contribution to globalisation. Or as development gateway puts it, glocalisation.
LINKS
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fast forward 2015 pacific islands media
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ff.2015
DRAFT news paradigm for pima
Overview of proposed long term programmes under an expanded Pacific Islands Media Association, focused on emerging opportunities in foreign assistance.
2015 is target date for tripling of foreign aid spending by Australia and New Zealand.
PIMA can facilitate this if a news paradigm is adopted towards ongoing assessment, research and evaluation.
summary
background
fast forward to 2015
from here … to there
next step
next steps …
biggest challenge
transparency tools
case study
aid targets
weakness, strength
conclusion
references
by jason brown, acting secretary, pima
march 2008
After six years of solid if relatively low key activity, PIMA, the Pacific Islands Media Association faces issues familiar to many non-governmental organisations.
Low membership. Almost zero funds. Absence of capacity at secretariat level. Serious time constraints among voluntary executives and members. Industry sector fragmentation.
Answers to those challenges may lie in partnering with homeland Pacific Islands ahead of OECD aid targets signed by New Zealand and Australia.
Accepted or conventional wisdom is that PIMA exists in a highly competitive civic sector.
What little funding has been accessed is seen as part of a generally difficult environment for NGO capacity building.
Currently, there are few if any sources of major funding seen as being accessible, easily or otherwise.
fast forward to 2015 (draft)
By 2015, PIMA co-manages multimillion programmes in the island region, partnering with homelands; breaking ground across all sectors of the media industry – news, music, and arts generally.
Journalists use their own regional body to regain independence of information flows.
Reinvigorated public broadcasters build training hubs for ethics-based ITT, information transformation techniques, leading to an explosion of e-commerce creativity in Aotearoa and across the island region.
from here … to there (draft)
As it currently stands, PIMA lacks anything near enough technical capacity to manage multimillion programmes and projects.
What PIMA can do, however, is work towards a role where we facilitate funding towards projects that, properly resourced, form part of long term programmes.
In other words, PIMA provides policy and funding – other people, businesses, NGOs, and so forth provide the technical expertise and detail.
next step (draft)
There is a natural – and healthy – caution when it comes to think-big projects. But there are signs that New Zealand, for one, is being overly cautious – it is one of just six countries without even a schedule for meeting 2015 targets towards 0.7% of gross domestic product being spent on official development assistance.
The next step for PIMA executives is to decide whether or not this kind of proposal merits further debate.
Caution is wise, but New Zealand and Australia will triple their aid budgets, existing groups seize opportunities, and new groups created to fill gaps not being plugged.
Executive members of PIMA may agree with elements of this proposal and decide there is some merit to looking further into suggestions here.
If so, then a second step would be for members to begin outlining, through executive meetings, email, online wiki and other forums, what areas and activities PIMA could get involved in regionally – an industry wish list.
A third step would be for PIMA to formally seek funding for the executive to conduct a scoping exercise of media futures here and around the region, and how PIMA might continue enhancing the media and arts industry.
Millions of aid dollars are already piling up across the region due to a lack of "technical capacity."
“The biggest challenge is having the systems and human resources required for effective financial oversight. To some extent there appears to be a tension or conflict between fiscal responsibility and control and performance management in relation to functions,” states NZAID, in a peer review of aid processes last year.
applying transparency tools (draft)
Ten million dollars is a lot of money for small island communities to miss out on due to a lack of “effective” financial oversight.
As the 2015 deadline looms closer, an option may be for Australia and New Zealand to ‘spend’ aid dollars safely by depositing funds into third party accounts, any pay-out depending on aid recipients putting proper finance protocols into place.
This is where organisations like PIMA can step in – by providing access to emerging technologies like RSS and email-2-web auto-publishing tools of total transparency as an interim and radical new method of finance monitoring.
what a PIMA project might look like / case study (draft)
An immediate past president, John Utanga, for example, might remain sufficiently enthused by PIMA to make a donation, straight into our bank account.
His donation triggers an email from our bank account, automatically publishing as a webpage, all within seconds of the deposit being made.
Technology for such transparency already exists and is in use by one agency - imagine if PIMA took a leadership role in promoting such transparencies among media, arts and community groups?
aid targets (draft)
That’s one example of a project. Again, how do we get from here to there? Not by waiting for government. Ahead of its biggest ever expansion of aid spending, NZAID’s strategic plan for 2005 to 2010 is just five pages long – two if you take away opening index and title pages.
As indicated, New Zealand must triple its aid spend within the next seven years, Australia required to cough up similar amounts. It bears repeating that this represents an increase from roughly one billion to three billion dollars.
First steps outlined above refer to process – perhaps the most difficult part will be in making enough room in our minds for potential outcomes.
weakness as strength (draft)
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In one respect, however, this weakness is also a strength – former PIMA executives have done the hard yards, stayed on track and on message for more than half a decade – no small feat – and this provides donors and other ‘stakeholders’ compelling evidence of commitment.
Now is the time to capitalise on those solid foundations and welcome partnerships between ourselves, home island organisations and donor communities.
Conclusion (draft)
A mantra coined for 2008 by new PIMA president Aaron Taouma was “think big, act small and fill out forms” – here is a draft framework.
- Supporting development of industry capacity
- Anticipating trends towards greater regionalism
- Advocating media centrality in foreign assistance
- Facilitating aid targets set for 2015
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avaiki - aid levels put nz, oz in dirty half dozen
oecd - dac peer review of new zealand 2005
nzaid - improving service delivery - vanuatu 2007
nzaid - improving service delivery – vanuatu (html link)
nzaid - towards excellence in aid delivery 2005
nzaid - towards a strategy for the pacific islands region 2002
nzaid - ministerial review of progress 2006
pacific strategy 2007 – 2015 (PDF). . .
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