Date: Wednesday 27 June 2007
Time: 4.30-6pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Eric Chinje
Panellists: Mark Wilson, James Deane, Gerald Milward-Oliver
Chair: Charlie Beckett

This is the launch of the report on 'Development, Governance and the Media' based on our March 2007 conference. The report includes contributions from the day and the policy ideas that follow.

How can the media hold governments in developing countries to account? How can more effective media development improve development more widely? What is the impact of the digital revolution in Africa? Are there fragile states in which media development must be abandoned altogether? This report sets out the POLIS view of 'networked journalism' for fostering media development in Africa.

This is your chance to question the contributors and continue the debate

Eric Chinje is communications director of The African Development Bank.

Mark Wilson is executive director of PANOS London, an international NGO which works to foster debate around development issues, and particularly media support. Gerald Milward-Oliver is director of the Anima Centre Limited, a new international educational and study resource for businesses, civil society organisations and individuals. James Deane is currently managing director, strategy, at the Communication for Social Change Consortium.

Charlie Beckett is director of POLIS.

This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come first served basis.

There will be a drinks reception after the lecture from 6 - 7pm in the Senior Dining Room. If you wish to attend this reception, please RSVP to Laura Kyrke-Smith at polis@lse.ac.uk

For more information, email polis@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7107 5249

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