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The Union Minister of Information & Broadcasting and Culture, Shri S. Jaipal Reddy launched the IIMC GLOBALNET, here today.
The IIMC GLOBALNET brings together more than 970 journalists from 96 countries and 2900 Indian media professionals, all alumni of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) on a common platform on the Internet.
Forty years ago, in 1965, IIMC was set up as an advanced national centre for training and research in communication. From the very beginning the Institute was alive to the need to respond to the training requirements in communication to countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. In 1978, subsequent to the decisions taken at the Meeting of the Information Ministers of Non-Aligned Countries at New Delhi in 1976 and the call of NAM for the establishment of a New International Information and Communication Order at the 1976 Colombo Summit, the Institute became the first centre to provide advanced level training to news agency journalists from NAM countries. After the geo-political changes of the 1990s, journalists from countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia also started coming to IIMC for training. Over these four decades IIMC has created a vast pool of media expertise and goodwill across the globe. Today, some of these media professionals head the news networks in their respective countries. The IIMC GLOBALNET aims to reforge these media linkages to serve the common destiny of the developing world.
A critical component of the IIMC GLOBALNET (ignet) is the NEWS EXCHANGE, which would help media persons to source stories from each other and enable them to look at events in developing countries ‘with our own eyes’ and ‘think of each other from our own perspectives’. The IGNET news exchange aims to put forward the mindset and worldview of the developing world on global issues and act as a catalyst to focus media attention on core development issues of poverty, unemployment, health and education. It also aims to reflect the cultural paradigm of diversity and pluralism of the developing world and expose and counter attempts to enforce a cultural hegemony and uniformity.
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