FORO COMUNICACION Y CIUDADANIA
INTERNATIONAL FORUM: COMMUNICATION AND CITIZENSHIP
Hotel Camino Real, San Salvador,
El Salvador 9-11 September 1998
PROGRAM

Wednesday 09  
08:00h: Registration of participants
09:00h: Opening session
* Words of welcome
Oscar Antonio Pérez, Executive Secretary ARPAS
* Presentation of the Objetives of the Forum
Osvaldo León, General Coordinator of ALAI
09:45h: First Conference (Round Table):
"The Right to Communicate"
Néstor Busso, Representative of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Education Radiofónica, ALER and President of FARCO, Argentina

The Vienna + 5 process
Laurie Wiseberg, Human Rights Internet

"The Democratization of the Radioelectrical Spectrum in Latin America".
Juan Lucas Aguilar, Director of Radio Segundo Montes of El Salvador
10:30h: Recess
10:45h: Installation of working groups
12:30h: Lunch
14:00h: Second Conference (Round Table):
"Communication, Civil Society and Social Networks"
Mónica Muñoz, Representative of UNIFEM
Alfonso Goitia, Director of CIPHES/CONCERTACION
Epsy Campbell Representative of the Foro de Mujeres para la integration Centroamericana y Afrocaribeñas
David Rivas, President of APES
15:00h: Continuation of working groups
16:00h: Recess
17:00h: End of working groups sessions
18:00h: Inauguration ceremony:
* Presentation of the Forum
Guido Flores Arenivar, President of ARPAS
* Greeting of the International Organizing Commission:
Sally Burch, Executive Director of ALAI
* Message of Adolfo Pérez Esquivel,
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
* Greeting by Mary Robinson,
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
* Intervention by the Representative of UNESCO for Latin America, Alejandro Alfonzo:
"The perspective of a Culture of Peace"
* Intervention by Rigoberta Menchú Tum,
Nobel Peace Prize Winner:
"Challenges of the New Millennium from the Peoples' Perspective"
Thursday 10  
08:30h: Third Conference (Round table):
"Gender focus in Communication"
* María Victoria Polanco, President of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
* Lilian Mercado, Representative of the WOMENS ASIAN CAUCUS
* Itelvina Masioli, Representative of the Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (CLOC)
09:30h: Recess
10:00h: Installation of working groups
12:30h: Lunch
14:00h: Fourth Conference:
"Communication and Spirituality"
P. John Sobrino, S.J, Director of the Centro Mons. Romero
14:30h: Intervention of the Bishop Federico Pagura
14:45h: Recess
15:00h: Continuation of working groups
18:00h: End of working group sessions
Friday 11  
08:30h: Fifth Conference (Round table):
"Communication, Globalization and New Technologies"
Osvaldo León, Representative of the Agencia Latinoamericana de Información (ALAI)
Karin Delgadillo, Representative of the Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
09:15h: Installation of working groups
10:30h: Recess
12:30h: Lunch
14:00h: Plenary session: Conclusions and Final Declaration of the Forum
19:00h: Closing ceremony in the Teatro Presidente
* Words of Rigorberta Menchú Tum,
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
* Reading of the Final Declaration of the Forum and presentation of working group conclusions
* Presentation of the Ballet Folclórico of the Instituto Salvadoreño de Turismo
* Closing words
21:00h: Coctail