The independent media need help!

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Abstract

The major barrier for the development of independent media is a catastrophic lack of techies and programmers.Last year one of the best Indymedia techies 'burned out', while maintaining over 30 Indymedia web sites on his own. In 2002 media makers very successfully experimented with a 'Media pool' for exchanging digital media material (joburgmedia.net), during the UN Johannesburg conference on development and environment. Since then all efforts to build a permanent version of this proven tool (http://mediapool.nl) stranded, due to lack of programmers. The Cancunmedia.net initiative (hoping to provide independent news on the WTO Ministerial, september 2003), for which a extensive NGO-network was build, had to be cancelled, due to lack of programmers.

The new Dutch 'AnderNieuws.Net' (Other/Alternative News Network) network of independent media and media makers aims to address this urgent issue. But AnderNieuws.Net itself also got stuck, because no one can implement the needed facilities for the web site...At this moment the only perspective for many media initiatives seems to be the long road through official funding, sponsoring, complicated contracts with stagiairs, etc., just to get some programming done, resulting in unacceptable delays and loss of independence.

I'll explain the model and strategy of AnderNieuws.Net, which can be applicable to many countries. AnderNieuws.Net (still) wants to develop many tools and facilities, needed to promote professionalism and efficiency with the independent media. More at http://andernieuws.net/english

Afterwards I'll be at the door, recruiting technicians and programmers who really want to make a difference.

Speakers

• Boyd Noorda

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