The Steering Committee for the conference comprises of a group of world-renowned experts in the field of Development Communication. The members through their experience have helped in curating this conference. Many of them will also be present at the conference.
Mr. Alfonso Gumucio
Managing Director,
Communication for Social Change Consortium
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celebrate the leadership of India in calling for the first
global conference in Asia on Communication for Social Development:
Discourse and Practice. Many previous international events
on this topic have taken place in the Western world, including
the World Congress of Communication for Development (WCCD)
in Rome, in 2006. This seems to be the first opportunity
to turn things around, allowing the global South to facilitate
the interactions. The experience of Latin America, Asia
and Africa in developing communication processes for social
change that go beyond a conventional media-based approach,
has been enormous during the past 50 years. We have learned
that communication for social change is a process of participation,
and not the accrual of messages and information. We
have a clear leadership in terms of experience and reflection.
This conference will help to develop it further, on the
basis of strengthening South-to-South exchanges.
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Dr. Arvind Singhal
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This conference
provides a forum for scholars and practitioners to come
together to move practice and scholarship on communication
and social change onward and upward. |
Dr. N Bhaskar Rao
Chairman,
CMS
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The
Conference on Communication in November 2007 is going to
be a landmark event for all those engaged in social development,
development communication, reforms communication and concerned
with global media policies and shifts in the media paradigm
sweeping developing countries. There is so much to share,
debate, experiment and explore in these areas. I am sure
the Hyderabad Conference is going to be more than symbolic
towards a new coalition, exploring synergies and in putting
the issues on a more serious pedestal or perspective. |
Prof. Cleofe S. Torres
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Communication
is a natural activity among humans. When deliberately designed
to pursue the value goals of empowerment, equity, environmentalism,
and entrepreneurship, it acquires the power to be a catalyst
for social change. Because social realities differ, then
devcom is highly contextual and cultural. There could be
as many variants. The common threads that bind this unique
process together is that it remains pro-people (referring
to the poor, marginalized, and disadvantaged) and pro-choice.
We can only initiate and facilitate the process; but the
substance of discourse and the final decision rest on the
people. I believe that the symposium will be a good avenue
to celebrate the rich diversity in the practice of devcom. |
Prof. Vinod Pavarala
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Organizing Committee
The members of the Organizing Committee comprises of professionals from Centre for Media Studies and S N School of Performing Arts, Fine Arts and Communication
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