Home

Gobal Forum for Media Development

  • Welcome Note
  • General Information
  • About GFMD
  • Committees
    • Organising Committee
    • Steering Committee
  • Program
  • Speakers
  • Participation
  • Visa to Greece
  • Congress Tours
  • Sponsors
  • Topics
  • Conference Venue
  • Press Corner
  • Regional Conferences
  • Athens-Greece
  • Photo Gallery / GFMD Conference 2005
  • Photo Gallery / GFMD Conference 2008
  • Contact Us

News

  • Press Release, Athens World Conference
    Press Release, Athens World Conference
    Media development campaigners from around the world meet in Athens this week for a major debate on "Quality information for all" and how free journalism and independent media can contribute
    read more
    read more
  • Middle East/North Africa Regional Conference
    Middle East/North Africa Regional Conference
    Participants at the first Regional Forum for Media Development for the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) agreed that the lack of an enabling legal and institutional environment for media freedom was the biggest problem blocking media development in the region...
    click here
    click here
  • Press Release South Africa, Grahamstown, Regional Conference
    Press Release South Africa, Grahamstown, Regional Conference
    Media support groups from across Africa have added their voice to global calls for action...
    read more
    read more
more

Steering Committee

Veet Vivarta,
Agencia de Noticias dos Direitos de Infancia (ANDI), Brazil

Ali Djerri,
Al Khabar, Algeria

James Deane,
BBC World Service Trust, UK

Jaime Abello Banfi, General Director
Fundacion para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI),
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's foundation, Colombia

John Liu, Director
Environmental Education Media Project, China

Haitham Atoom,
Farah Al Nas, Jordan

Anthony Borden, Executive Director
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), US/UK

Joyce Barnathan, President
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), USA

Aidan White, General Secretary
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Belgium

Gabriel Baglo,
IFJ Africa Office, Senegal

Manana Aslamazian, President
Educated Media Foundation (formerly Internews Russia), Russia

David Hoffman, President,
Internews Network, USA - Internews International, USA/Europe

Mark Whitehouse, Director
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), USA

Sasa Vucinic, Managing Director
Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF), Singapore

Edetaen Ojo, Director
Media Rights Agenda, Nigeria and
Vice Chairperson, Media Foundation for West Africa

Mark Wilson, Executive Director
The Panos Institute London, UK

A.S. Panneerselvan,
Panos South Asia, India

Roby Alampay, Executive Director
South East Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Thailand

Remzi Lani,
South East European Network for Professionalisation of Media (SEENPM), Albania

Virginie Jouan, Co-Director
Press Freedom and Development Programmes
World Association of Newspapers (WAN), France

Jeanette Minnie, Media Development Consultant
Zambezi FoX; Former Regional Director of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), South Africa

 

  • Printer-friendly version

Host Organiser

CITY OF ATHENS

Final Program

GFMD CNN Spot

 Host Partners

 

 Exclusive International Broadcast Sponsor

 

Global Forum for Media Development
Athens world Conference, 7-10 December 2008
gfmd-athworldconf@acnc.gr