Archived Projects

PCMLP published an extensive newsletter dedicated to technology, regulation, and media especially as they relate to transitions to democracy. 
http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/archive/transition

PCMLP, in partnership with the BBC World Service Trust and other European organizations (IREX Europe, Dublin Institute of Technology, University of Lille), is taking part in a project which will lay down the foundations for a long-term exchange of know-how so that the education sector in the Ukraine can continue to benefit from the process of pedagogical innovation triggered by the Bologna Declaration of 1999.

Funded by USAID, PCMLP served as primary organizer for a conference on media assistance held in Paris in February 2002. At the conference, members of the media assistance and development community came together to begin a large scale discussion on the effectiveness, purpose, philosophy, and practical basis for global media assistance.

The Ford Foundation awarded the PCMLP a grant for institutional support and the preparation of a book on information intervention (2001-2001). This grant helped the Programme a. create a framework for understanding the background, mechanisms, and prospects of transitions in the media, society and their causal relationship; b. nourish and reinforce institutions in comparative approaches to media law and policy issues; c. help with legislative and policy assessments, d. assist independent media discover their role in legislative and policy making processes; and e.

PCMLP, in conjunction with the International Bar Association, the University of Hong Kong and the Southeast Asian Press Alliance, co-organised a programme to train Southeast Asian lawyers in the field of media defense. The objective of the programme is to strengthen media freedom in Southeast Asia by building and strengthening national and regional capacity for media defense litigation. For more information visit the website http://mediadefense.wordpress.com/.

Media, communications and information technology has emerged as a new focus in development aid budgets in the past decade. Whereas in previous decades specific projects have been funded that sought to promote information provision and media freedom, a new area has emerged, known as ICT4D - Information and Communications Technology for Development. In agencies like the UK Department for International Development and the World Bank, projects in this field have recently been the subject of intense controversy: is it justified to spend on communications projects when food aid might be a priority?

PCMLP has been engaged in a comparative research project on media and election violence in Eastern Africa. We have also been exploring broader questions about media regulation during heavily contested elections. We have held a workshop on this topic in December 2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  The workshop provided the opportunity to explore the election experiences of Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Somaliland, Tanzania and Sudan in a comparative framework. The focus was on understanding why election violence occurred after some elections, what the role of the media was in either exacerbating or resolving disputes, and what this suggests about the broader political project and the state of the media in the countries under examination.  As a result of the workshop we published the following report.
 

Study carried out by the European Commission as required by Article 22b of Directive 97/36/EC of 30 June 1997 amending Directive 89/552/EEC (Television without Frontiers Directive).

Between May 2004 and May 2006 PCMLP participated in this project funded by EuropeAid Asia IT&C of the European Commission. Participation in this project took place in the context of a much larger initiative, GIPI - Global Internet Policy Initiative, which was an initiative of several years' duration of the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Internews Network. The objective of the initiative was to assist a number of countries (e.g.

Selfregulation.info investigates self-regulatory codes of conduct across National, EU and International boundaries covering a wide range of media from Internet, film, video (games), (digital) television to mobile communications. The project assisted self-regulatory bodies in the development and implementation of codes of conduct. IAPCODE was funded by the European Commission under the Internet Action Plan.