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Communication for Development United Nations

What follows in this note comes to mind because in the last two years I have contributed in a process led by UNESCO to analyze, position and promote communication for development. He participated in several activities in the organization's headquarters in Paris and in Latin America.

At the request of Unesco in Uruguay did a formative assessment of how United Nations agencies in that country implement communication programs for development, as mandated by the General Assembly of the United Nations. The result is that most people do little or nothing in that field. My report is not confidential, as the Unesco regional office has placed on its website. Just one click to download the PDF .

Of all the agencies of the United Nations, whose mandate only communication is the Unesco. Other programs and projects have communication but which is Unesco from the top of its organizational structure, communication sector has the same level as other sectors to justify their initials: education, science and culture.

For research that has encouraged and supported the communication policies, UNESCO stands in the landscape not only of multilateral organizations, but also well ahead of the bilateral development agencies, and above Governments, foundations and NGOs should be the closest to the communication understood as a process of dialogue and participation.

Typically, when institutions say they are committed to the "communication", what they actually do is dissemination of information or even worse, propaganda of their own activities to bolster the visibility institutional. A clear example is UNICEF, much ado about nothing, and I know what I mean after working more than seven years in that organization.

The confusion between information and communication is so prevalent, not only ordinary people but themselves journalists and reporters speak of "mass media" to refer to the media and broadcast. I said in several trials, and in a recent article published in Page 12 (Argentina), the mass media do not exist, that is a lie.

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Unesco understands the difference and symbolic battles waged for freedom of expression, the right to information and communication rights. The three concepts are also often confused, but not so difficult to distinguish their differences: the freedom of expression protects journalists and the media, the right to information is the right of individuals to access information from government institutions and the right to communicate is that we all have to be able to communicate through their own instruments, as so-called community media.

If we make a little history will remember that Unesco fought the battle for a New World Information and Communication (NWICO) following the report of the MacBride Commission (comprising among others, by Gabriel García Márquez), which showed that the major powers world were under strict control of information flows in the world. The evidence was so overwhelming in the report, the United States and Britain withdrew from UNESCO for many years and with all its resources sabotaged propaganda.

that continues to wage battles in recent years Unesco recover the previous history and emphasize the right to communication, promoting For example, new technologies and communication for development in countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Cyranek

Gunther Gabriel Kaplun and

A Cyranek Gunther invitation until late November Regional Adviser for Communication and Information of UNESCO for the Mercosur, recently participated in Montevideo the close of the conference "Communication for Development, Social Change and Participation in Telecommunication Tower ANTEL (Administración Nacional de Telecomunicaciones), a modern building near the port like a boat (much like the huge Burj Al Arab, the seven-star hotel in Dubai). The

event program highlighted the wealth of experiences of communication with a sense of participation and development. Since the state has realized the ambitious Ceibal , which I mentioned in a previous note, by which it has adopted an XO laptop to all students in public schools in the country. Since civil society participatory communication has been enriched with proposals such as TV Tree, and many others.

Experiences mentioned and others are described in chapters of a new book of Unesco which was presented by Gunther Cyranek. With its 500 pages, photographs and an unconventional format, "Communication for development: a tool for social change and participation" contains 30 texts that refer to 'approaches and experiences, "including one of mine where I analyze the role meets the communication for development in the UN system. The entire book can be downloaded in PDF the Unesco website.

The event also featured speakers from the front line, Gabriel Kaplun's friends (who leads the race Communication at the University of Uruguay), Eduardo Rebollo (who does the same at the Catholic University) and Gustavo Gomez, who took a few months ago the role of National Director of Telecommunications in the government of Pepe Mujica, and was formerly the Director of laws of the AMARC. You can download the photos from the event the Unesco website.

Ana María Mizrahi, Gabriel Kaplun, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, Gunther Cyranek

The conference generated healthy expectations in the media in Uruguay, certainly prone to a progressive concept of communication. The Channel 5, public television, invited us to Gabriel Kaplun, Cyranek Gunther and me to an interview with Ana María Mizrahi on "The News and its context." The photos that live broadcast, which took place in his study "transparent" (glass, on the Boulevard Artigas) can also be downloaded from the website of Unesco.

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Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

Sebastián Auyanet, del diario El País , me permitió en una entrevista publicada el sábado 2 de noviembre, abordar los temas antes mencionados, porque me parece importante seguir insistiendo hasta que se entiendan.

Este tipo de actividades que apoya la Unesco, relacionadas con la comunicación para el desarrollo se están dando también en otros países de la región, por ejemplo en Ecuador con la participación de CIESPAL. La idea es preparar una masa crítica de documentación, experiencias y debates con vistas a la 12ª Mesa Redonda de Comunicación para el Desarrollo que tendrá lugar en India en 2011.