Jordan will be the first Arab country to host the World Assembly of Community Radio Broadcasters conference, expected to take place in the second half of 2006.Organisers expect the event to attract 300 to 400 community radio broadcasters from more than 100 countries around the world.
AmmanNet Internet radio and other Jordanian and Palestinian media organisations will help organise the week-long event locally, with support from local Aqaba authorities and the Jordanian Audio-Visual Commission.
"Holding an AMARC global conference in an Arab country will act as a major catalyst to strengthen the creation of a legal, political and legislative environment that can encourage and support community radio in a region in which governments have monopolised the airwaves for tens of years," said AmmanNet founder Daoud Kuttab .
AMARC is an international, non-governmental organisation that serves the community radio movement in more than 110 countries. It promotes the right to communicate at the international, national, local and neighborhood levels.
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