Community Media - For Social Change

Community Media Media for what? Media for social change

Community media can help people come together within a community. Make and practice a Dance

Make a video Write a Song Make a poster Write a Poem

Make and practice a Role Play

Make drawings or a display

Community Media and also help communities come together

But, if you ask communities: “Have you talked with other communities with the same issues”, Many say: “No – we report to our NGO”. Outside NGO

Provider/Manager “Owners of Development”

Passive Recipients

Outside NGO

• In Cambodia we have one of the highest number of development agencies in the world.

• Cambodia has one of the most passive civil societies in the world.

• How to support the development of civil society where Provider/Manager communities and community organisations communicate with each other in order to Passive Receiver make change. Outside NGO

Outside NGO

“Owners of Development”

Community Media

Community Creators

Other advantages • It’s fun • Its part of the culture • It’s not so threatening to government • It can be hard to control • Many people would be angry if it was shut-down

Civil society also needs to communicate to the outside Indigenous Languages

Khmer Language

International Languages

Literacy not necessary