"Eine kurze Einführung in die Bedeutung der Medien für die Demokratieförderung, die Ziele und Grundsätze der KAS-Medienförderung und die von der KAS geförderten Medienbereiche." (commbox)
"This handbook of source texts for Christian communicators in Africa contains a rich variety of nearly twenty documents from official meetings throughout Africa from 1970 to 1991. The first Pan-African Meeting of the Episcopal Conferences on Social Communications (Ibadan, 1973) and the SECAM Plenary
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Assembly on the theme "Evangelization in Africa through the Communications Media" (Lome, 1990) receive special attention. Other seminal meetings were the Conference on Effective Communication in Development (Lusaka, 1971), the WACC Pan-African Symposium on Christian Communication (Harare, 1987) and the AMECEA_Sonolux Grassroots Communication Symposium (Lusaka, 1988)." (Back cover)
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"Many countries are now reporting data which indicate high access to immunization services (good BCG, DPT1, and 0PV1 rates) but lower complete coverage, due to dropouts. Dropouts reflect a problem in one or both of two areas: service barriers (such as missed opportunities to vaccinate); and consumer
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barriers (such as lack of correct information, fear of side effects, or competing belief systems). In other countries immunization program mangers are discovering that it is more difficult to achieve and maintain the final ten percent or 20 percent of coverage than it was to achieve the initial 60 percent or even 80 percent. In each of these cases communication has a role to play. Communication offers practical strategies for reducing both service and consumer barriers to complete coverage and for sustaining appropriate immunization behavior among these groups over the long term." (Abstract)
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"A UNESCO project designed to study "methods of establishing community newspapers in remote islands of the Pacific in conjunction with other community media, notably radio." An overview of the region gives background, the status and problems of broadcasting and print media, and recommandations, foll
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owed by similar overviews of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Western Somoa, and Tonga. These are accompanied by maps and tables of facts and figures." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 849)
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"A UNESCO report headed by Sean MacBride of Ireland in which representatives from Canada, Chile, Columbia, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Tunisia, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia and Zaire were mandated "to study the totality of Communication problems in modern
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society" in order to formulate "a more just and more efficient world information and communication order," keeping in mind particularly the differences among nations in culture and resources. The result of this hard, if not impossible, charge to reconcile divergent viewpoints represents a compromise which can wholly please none of the three worlds, but it does offer a wide-ranging investigation with varying viewpoints. Appendixes include a list of international organizations active in communications, and there are, in addition, a list of about 100 available background papers. Index. For a discussion of the report giving some of its strengths and weaknesses see 'Communication in the Eighties: A Reader on the "MacBride Report"', edited by Cees J. Hamelink. A 244-page paperback abridgement, 'Many Voices, One World', was published in 1984 by UNESCO." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 210)
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"This publication, entitled Book Development in National Communications and Planning, comprises of a basic paper on the role of National Book Development Councils in overall national communication policies and development planning and the two studies on which it is based, namely, Books for the Rural
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Areas of South Asia and Guidelines for Book Development in South and South-East Asia. As a whole, these give a comprehensive overall picture of the book situation in Asia which is hopefully intended to evoke and stimulate essential public and private sector responses resulting in further concerted national efforts in the development of the book industry trade." (Introduction)
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"The aim of this booklet is, by briefly showing the diversity of the tasks undertaken, to survey the multiform but deliberately concerted and co-ordinated activities which, while centred on books as their main theme, none the less converge on the development of man and the fulfilment of his biologic
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al and social potentialities." (Introduction, page 8)
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