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The report ‘Funding for Media Development by Major Donors Outside the United States’ (2009) provides an overview of some of the main agencies involved in the funding of media development — a broad term that includes funding of ICTs in development and community media — in Europe and elsewhere. Guy Berger (2010: 549) has pointed out that there is some conflation of the two terms ‘media development’ and ‘media for development’ resulting in the aggregation of ‘both the development of media institutions and developing media role as a means to other goals’. The fact that this study was commissioned by the US-based Centre for International Media Assistance (CIMA) at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), whose tag line is ‘supporting freedom around the world’, is indicative of the US government’s interest in and support for a variety of public sphere media. The NED is a private non-profit organisation based in Washington and is supported by funding from the US Congress. CIMA is among other pro-democracy initiatives supported by the NED, including the World Movement for Democracy. The NED’s priority countries in Asia, for example, include, among others, China, and projects in areas that have seen ethnic unrest, including Xinjaing Province, Tibet, support for Uyghur diaspora communities, North Korea and Burma.
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Thomas, P.N., van de Fliert, E. (2014). Agencies, Structures and Social Change. In: Interrogating the Theory and Practice of Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426314_5
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