Communiqué: Global Patriot Newspapers’ Dialogue 2024 - ITREALMS

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The Global Patriot Newspapers’ Dialogue on the theme: “The Media of the Future: Bridging the Gap Between the West and People of African Descent” was held on Friday, September 20, 2024, as a side event of the Black Futures Summit convened on the sidelines of the United Nations Summit of the Future.

The international meeting, attended by personalities from the media, government, civil society, and academia, emphasized the importance of media representation for people of African descent worldwide. It also addressed the need for Africa and people of African descent generally to rebrand journalism for effective mass communication and to build influential international media platforms to close the wide gaps existing between the media of people of African descent and the media of the West. It focused on the future of people of African descent and the role of the media in shaping a new narrative about the potentials of African peoples worldwide. It emphasized the importance of people of African descent controlling their own stories, changing negative narratives about themselves, and having a clear vision for a better future.

ATCON to Strengthen Regulatory Policies

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Association of the Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) in a communiqué at the end of its Annual General Meeting 2015 pledged to lobby for a better regulation in the sector, ITRealms reports.

ATCON President, Mr. Lanre Ajayi, while reading out the communiqué, told ITRealms that the fear of an environment of a weak legal framework necessitated its members to call for stronger regulatory policies that would protect and prioritize the survival of local investors at the same time not excluding foreign investors.

“We called for strengthening of a stronger regulatory environment because there are certain things that could be done better and to achieve that we have formed a strategic section of committees which would access and scrutinize these issues to certain rigors, which would be articulated and documented and we believe it’s not going to be flawed when presented to the government,” he said.

ITRealms also learnt that the Association intends to sit again with the appointed committees to finalize and document their reports for immediate presentation to the relevant authorities.

Equally ITRealms gathered that ATCON within the period of June 2014 to April 2015 has established laudable projects like the establishment of a training department at its secretariat, joined hands to host an International workshop on IPv6 2014, as well as organized the Telecoms Executive and Regulators forum 2014.

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