Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the „European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008“ from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/

Contribution:
The Intercultural Community Media: Planning for Diversity Advantage (Rui Monteiro)

Community Media should embrace diversity because therein lie opportunity, resources and advantage. Diversity is not something merely to be tolerated because this is the right thing to do or because our lives will be less troublesome. Community Media need to ground cultural diversity in both individual autonomy, collective self-organisation and presence within the local public sphere. There is no uniform model, nor should there be, but we need steps towards an intercultural policy in the Community Media. The most important thing of all is to start……