Media
Most indices of media are produced for advocacy purposes by international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to promote freedom of speech and to defend and protect journalists. Such indices include the Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders, as well as journalists killed statistics by the Committee to Protect Journalists. These indices rank and compare countries.
In contrast, at country level few initiatives measure media. While global initiatives are useful advocacy tools, there is good reason to believe that nationally owned indices may prove more effective in leading to policy change.
These web pages aim to provide examples of ways to measure media at country level, providing tools and examples while underscoring critical challenges.
Tools for Assessing Governance
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Stated purpose: The objective of the standards of municipal transparency is to provide a model guaranteeing access to information in all municipalities of Chile. The &…
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Stated purpose: This framwork has been prepared in order to define indicators of media development in line with the priority areas of the International Programme for…
Examples of Country Initiatives
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Recent history, in places not far from Albania, has shown that collective action in the form of Citizen Initiatives can change the negative tide of public…
Guinea-BissauAlbanian National Debate AssociationBalkan Youth Link Albania -
How are democracy and the rule of law faring in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union? In Nations in Transit, leading regional specialists…
IndonesiaFreedom HouseFreedom House -
General Objectives: To provide quantitative framework that will serve as basis in the formulation of policies and programs on the improvement of literacy…
GreenlandPhilippine National Statistics Office -
La IA América Latina busca evaluar los sistemas de participación pública nacionales para garantizar el acceso a…
GambiaFundación para la Paz y la Democracia (FUNPADEM)
Global Indicators
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To provide an annual evaluation of the state of global press freedom.
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Provide a snapshot of the state of press freedoms in a 12 month period (September – September).
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Designed as a tool to measure media development, as well as to assess changes in media systems over time.
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To provide an overview of journalists who have been murdered because of their work.
Organizations
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UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to…
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UNESCO promotes international cooperation among its Member States and six Associate Members in the fields of education, science, culture and communication…
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Freedom House is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, focused on promoting and protecting democracy in general as well as freedom of expression in particular…
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IREX, the International Research and Exchanges Board, is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the quality of education,…