South Asian Network of Community Media

SANCOM is a virtual network of like-minded community media organisations, activists, researchers with the following objectives:

To promote community media in the South Asia region, so as to create and sustain a democratic and pluralistic media environment;
To foster the growth of alternative, citizen’s media in order to amplify grassroots community voices;
To encourage access, especially that of marginalized communities, to technologies of representation and, thereby, uphold their right to communicate;
To use communication for development within a participatory framework, such that people’s knowledge and their capacities are valued and recognized;
To connect with progressive social movements involved in wider struggles for people’s rights for equity and social justice.

The network is supported by:

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