Professionals from Seychelles participate in African media forum
Seychelles Financial Articles Add commentsSeychellois media professionals have returned from a 2-day conference in South Africa that focused on the role and responsibilities of media of Africa. The offshore jurisdiction was presented by 3 Seychellois professionals.
The forum was held from March 9-10at the University of the Witwatersrand. The event was organised and supported by the British and Canadian High Commissions in Pretoria and the British High Commission in Seychelles.
Topics under discussion included the right to know and access to information, transformation and democratisation in the media, models of regulation, issues in self-regulation, the role of government and society as well as mechanisms of accountability. The themes were exemplified by information from countries as diverse as the United Kingdom, Canada, Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa, and Nigeria.