Breakout Session 1.4: Accessing the Digital Benefit

Computers and the Internet are not yet available to huge numbers of people. How do those who live without electricity, literacy, or technology access news media in a digital world? What innovative solutions have been devised to meet the information needs of impoverished populations and rural communities?

Moderator: Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, J-Lab, American University, United States

Shubhranshu Choudhary, Knight International Journalism Fellow, India

Michele Montas, Senior Adviser to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Haiti, United Nations Stabilization Mission, Haiti

Abdikadir Ahmed, Program Coordinator, IREX, Somalia

Martin Hadlow, Deputy Chair, Australian National Commission for UNESCO, Australia