Central Asia Media Conference
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The 15th regional Central Asia media conference titled "Fifteen years of the CAMC: reflecting on OSCE media-freedom commitments" will be held in Bishkek 27-28 June.
During the two-day event, more than 100 participants, including government authorities, the media, academics and international experts, will attend and examine the changes in the media landscape that have taken place in the region during the last 15 years. Representatives from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia are expected to participate in the event.
The conference will cover a number of media-related issues, such as media development in Central Asia over the last 15 years, regulation of the media and how it has changed, media advancements with the Internet and social media, and online speech. The participants will be able to discuss these and other media-related subjects during a number of different sessions and working groups.
Among the speakers at the conference will be Mark Johnson, Community Editor at The Economist; Eric Freedman Associate Professor of journalism at Michigan State University; and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović.
A master class on the changing role of the media will take place on the margins of the conference on 28 June. It will facilitate a discussion on how the media and the regulation of the media have changed in recent years and how this looks today, both internationally and in the region. The master class will be facilitated by Albany Associates, an international communications firm working with governments and broadcast regulatory agencies.
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and Albany Associates will conduct research during conference to understand the major media developments and impact of media freedom initiatives by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media across the region over the past 15 years.
Delegates at the conference will be interviewed and declarations from previous conferences will be scrutinised to determine how the media sectors of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have evolved since 1998 when the OSCE started to promote freedom of the media in these countries. The results will be published by September 2013.