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Cancún Media
cancunmedia.net
Independent Media Pool and News Portal for the WTO Ministerial, september 10-14 2003

Please note the project was stopped at August 1 2003, due to lack of manpower and money. For information on the causes, please see the home page.
Below is the original text, announcing Cancún Media.

Here Cancunmedia.net will be build. It will be an non-commercial exchange for media material on the WTO Ministerial in Cancún, Mexico, September 10-14, 2003. (The WTO is the World Trade Organisation).
The project still needs a lot of helping hands and funds. Want to help out? See below.

The aim

Cancunmedia.net is not another medium itself. It does not want to compete with other initiatives and media, but wants to facilitate and support them.
It is an independent exchange, guide and portal, for the benefit of all. It wants to safeguard the availability and accessibility of relevant information on Cancún, supporting both everyone producing information and everyone using or spreading information.
The aim is to advance media coverage and awareness about this very important WTO meeting, which will affect every citizen on this globe, but might well pass quite unnoticed, because of too little coverage by the mass media.
The project can fulfill many functions. Delegates and NGO representatives can inform their home base and the media themselves; journalists can share their material; specialists can contribute their views and comments, media without accredited journalists in Cancún can research and use material, radio stations can download interviews, webmasters can find pictures for their coverage, etc.
Cancunmedia.net is a temporary project, especially for this event. In October 2003 it will be turned into an permanent, extensive archive on this WTO meeting.

A secondary aim is to empower and educate all involved. Using tools like the 'Media Pool & News Portal' enables them to build, use and provide media channels themselves. Special 'universal' software will be developed, which can be used for future projects. The software will be available for free, enabling other initiatives to build similar platforms.

Media Pool

After registration anyone can upload material (text, pictures, audio and video) to the Media Pool. This material is available for free to anyone wanting to use it. So the Media Pool is an exchange between people reporting on the WTO Ministerial and people wanting to browse, research and use this material.
It is also possible to submit links to material on other web sites. Of course this material can be subject to the copyrights of the web site concerned.

News Portal

The editorial team will generate an overview of the most important news items, using the Media Pool and other web sites as a source. It is permanently updated, providing a 'one stop shopping' portal for journalists, commentators, specialists, politicians, activists and citizens.

E-mail mailing lists

The mailing lists will be low bandwidth and fast (plain text and optional pictures) and aimed at:

More information

Who is initiating Cancún Media?

The 'core group' curently working on Cancún Media: Rob Bleijerveld (WTO.ZIP nieuwsbrief, WGDD), Jens Christiansen (ASEED), Jane Dennet-Thorpe (Diversity Radio), Boyd Noorda (Socia Media, dDH). During the coming months others (partly payed) will join, to build the platform. A extensive network of participants and contributing NGO's is already forming.
But yes, we need a lot more help!

Help building Cancún Media

At this moment we especially need people helping with:

As soon as the Media Pool is up and running, anyone working on Cancún can join in:

And of course you can already start gathering material now!

Contact us

Please see the contact page.

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