HR!Day436 - Citizen Empowerment through Communications/Media

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Media and communication innovators look at the task and consider what it might take to launch new media and communication in the face of what Cop 26 described as Code Red.

How many times a day do we hear the call for a new media system? This is not new to recent times: awareness of media bias and the dangers of a business model that profits from polarisation has been around for decades. Evens so, the climate crisis, Covid and now the war in Ukraine has shown us how difficult it has become to get a helpful perspective on what is happening in the world.

For five years The Alternative UK has been producing a Daily Alternative blog to report on the innovation occurring outside of the mainstream discourse. It takes its intelligence from a new socio-economic-political system that has been emerging for over three decades. It’s our observation that solutions to the multiple crises already exist, so how can we give people better access to them? Or how can others help create the conditions in which they might be adopted?

This challenge demands not only better media, but also a new level of communication between all the people working for this regenerative system arising that will feed such a media in a coherent way. These include those working for personal as well as social development, innovative practices at the town, city, bioregional levels, the next economies arising, new forms of governance at every level – it’s a lot to cohere.

In this first session on what this new Communication/Media system might look like, media and comms innovators to begin to look at the task and consider what it might take to launch something in the face of what Cop 26 described as Code Red.

  • Indra Adnan is Co-initiator of The Alternative UK political platform and been writing consistently about soft power, public diplomacy and the power of attraction and relationship in international relations for over a decade, in major UK and US publications. Indra has consulted to the World Economic Forum, Indian, Finnish and Danish governments, NATO, the Scottish Executive and the Institute of Contemporary Arts amongst others. She wrote over seven years for The Guardian and The Huffington Post. Her book The Politics of Waking Up: Power & Possibility In The Fractal Age was a Time Literary Supplement Book of the Year in 2021.
  • Pat Kane is a musician, writer, consultant, futurist, curator, activist. Projects he has initiated, co-founded or designed over the last three decades include FutureFest, the Sunday Herald, Common Weal, The Alternative Global and Unboxed. His 2004 book The Play Ethic started his global career as an advisor/strategist on play & creativity. Pat was a core “Yes” campaigner in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, & is still one half of the 80’s “sophisti-pop” legends Hue And Cry.
  • Sushma Joseph has 15+ years in advertising and braodcast media in India. Helping launch the biggest global brands like Google, Skoda, Diageo, Vaseline, Game of Thrones, MasterChef Australia, etc. and the biggest talk show in India - Koffee with Karan, winning local and international creative awards year after year as writer, producer, director, and creative director at MTV, O&M, BBH, Star World/Disney.   And now, trying to harness my learnings from both the advertising and media industries to bring about a creative revolution. To help build a better world. By creating "entertainment with purpose".
  • Kgomotso Matsunyane is the Managing Director / Executive Producer of One Man Studios and Founder of the Feminist Library of Johannesburg. Co-founder of award-winning production company, T.O.M. Pictures, which produced several drama series and feature films, e.g. A Place Called Home, Soul Buddyz 4, and Soul City; and hosted popular talk show, Late Night with Kgomotso. Previous Editor of The Oprah Magazine ‘O’, wrote popular columns for News24.com, Afropolitan Magazine and True Love Magazine. Radio work include hosting Good Morning Gauteng on Kaya FM, and the Weekend Breakfast on Talk Radio 702/567 Cape Talk.

Co-convener:

  • Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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