Approaches To Development: Some New Studies On Communication For Development

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

Approaches To Development : Some New Studies On Communication For 
Development

14/01/2003 (UNESCO)


Communication for development, or “development communication”, which 
is the sharing of knowledge taking into account the interests, needs 
and capacities of all concerned, is at the core of UNESCO’s mission 
and actions. That is why UNESCO has sponsored a new CD-ROM gathering 
a series of studies on this issue entitled “Approaches to 
Development: Studies on Communication for Development”.

Edited by Professor Jan Servaes, from the “Communication for Social 
Change” Research Centre in Brussels, Belgium, the study addresses a 
wide range of issues, from the possible action of communication on 
the persistence of poverty to the possible Media Globalization 
through Localization, or from UNESCO’s contributions to Cultural 
Diversity and Communication for Development to the way to make 
Community Media work. The series of studies ends with a bibliography 
aimed at allowing further researches.

As Professor Servaes says: “Communication media are important tools 
in achieving this process but their use is not an aim in itself- 
interpersonal communication too must play a fundamental role”. This 
is the reason why communication policies, planning-making and 
implementation need particular attention and studies as the ones 
gathered in this CD-ROM. This new tool is freely available to the 
UNESCO’s Communication Development Division.

Contact
Lluis Artigas de Quadras <l.artigas@unesco.org>, UNESCO, 
Communication Development Division

source: 
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=7132&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SEC
TION=201&reload=1042732272