Reminder: C4D Network lunch - Weds 25th for those in London.

Looking forward to catching up then.

• Hope you got your C4D Network Newswire, 19 January 2012, do continue to send in news to post
  
• Apologies for slight delay in all the rest, but finalising new gateway website, so will show you that next week and would value your feedback.                      Best  Jackie

Latest News, Events, Publications and Jobs

• 29-31 May, 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland: 2012 Tech4Dev International Conference -' 'Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty?'- 26th Jan 2012
  The conference will look at how science and technologies can support both sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in developing and emerging countries. It aims to bring researchers and practitioners...
• 2011 Internews Humanitarian Annual Report - 'When information saves lives'- 26th Jan 2012
  When Information Saves Lives provides resources for aid agencies, governments, and media outlets, and calls on all humanitarian actors to operate on the principle that communication is aid.
• February 2012, University of Oxford, UK: Media and Governance Seminar Series- 25th Jan 2012
  The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Politics (PCMLP), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford is organizing a new seminar series on "Media and Governance in Developing Countries". The series is part of a year-long...
• 13 February, 2012: World Radio Day, SOAS, London: New Perspectives on Traditional Radio- 25th Jan 2012
  Since the first broadcast over 100 years ago, radio has proved to be a powerful information source for mobilising social change and a focal point for community life. In recognition, UNESCO have announced 13th February as World...
• Call for papers - Creating Publics, Creating Democracies- 25th Jan 2012
  By exploring how ideas and practices of publicness and democracy are being constituted, enacted, related and reconfigured in different settings, this workshop aims to investigate the modes of public action and democracy being...
• Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition - Call for articles for Spring and Autumn 2012 issues - 25th Jan 2012
  The journal welcomes scholarship from all areas of communication and media studies and especially encourage work that engages:  New social media/social transformation/democracy/social justice; New media and the institutionalized...
• Development Media International (DMI) - general call for international health BCC Consultants/ Technical Experts- 25th Jan 2012
  DMI is interested in receiving the CVs of health behaviour change communication consultants/technical experts who may be interested in working with DMI on future projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, on a short or longer...
• New report: 'Media in Africa: twenty years after Windhoek Declaration'- 25th Jan 2012
  What are the challenges facing the development of African media? This collection of essays considers what has changed in the twenty years since the landmark Windhoek Declaration called for a free, independent and pluralistic media...

Research 2 Action (R2A): this initiative provides guidance and inspiration on how to bring development research into focus and into use. 

UNICEF C4D: this significant division leads on UNICEF's work in C4D with a view to obtaining stronger programme results and greater traction for policy change.

Research Communication M&E Group: This informal network shares experiences and challenges relating to the monitoring and evaluation of development research communications.

CDAC Network (Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities): this partnership initiative provides a coordinated service to enable humanitarian operations to get lifesaving information to affected populations and to channel their voices back to the providers of assistance.

InfoasAID: this consortium focusing on improving how aid agencies communicate with disaster affected communities.

The C4D Network Definition of Communication for Development (C4D)

Communication for Development (C4D) is purposeful mediated communication and support by, and for, a range of communication stakeholders in the setting of international development and human rights.

• C4D is strategic – it has objectives, strategy and design
• C4D is  mediated – it utilizes broadcast, print, digital and other media (and may include interpersonal)
• C4D is located within the international development sector and  human rights sector
• C4D is highly pluralistic – with varied C4D approaches and methods
• C4D is involved with emerging and innovative media– using varied media platforms and convergences
• C4D includes varied stakeholders – ranging from communication producers, participants, receivers/audiences, and facilitators
• C4D includes facilitation and support– advancing media development and supporting participation