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Article: Role and place of media in the Information Society: the the Marrakech declaration and plan of action/Role et place des medias dans la Societe de l'Information: declaration et plan d'action de Marrakech.
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- January 1, 2005
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Morocco hosted an international conference on media issues as a follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). It was held in Marrakech from November 22-24, 2004. A hundred representatives of international and regional media professional organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) concerned with freedom of expression and freedom of the press, media specialists and experts from the academic world and the media industry debated the place and role of the media in the information society, more particularly in Africa and the Arab States. The Ministry of Communication, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Telecommunications of Morocco, ORBICOM and ...