Delhi, May 27 to 28, 2003

ICTs for development

“There is a huge scope to accord prime space to development issues and improve the quality of coverage of development news in the mainstream print and electronic media”. This was the major consensus at the Second Regional Consultation on Cross Media Partnerships and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) that opened on 27th May. The workshop was organised jointly by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) in partnership with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB).

The first day of the consultation brought together a range of owners, editors and senior development journalists representing the language, mainstream and specialty media, chiefs of the corporate decision making divisions of large media houses and senior representatives from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) of the Government of India.

Opening the Consultation, the former Prime Minister of India, Mr. I K Gujral said that The Human Development Reports (HDRs) had impacted upon thinking and policies the world over as their philosophy was dynamic and people-centred rather than simply growth-led.

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