02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
The launch of CIMA’s newest report, South Africa’s Media 20 Years After Apartheid, and a discussion about the role of media development in democratic transitions in southern Africa. Panelists focused on the importance of media development in the region, the challenges of the past 20 years, and how to work for a more open and diverse media environment throughout the region.
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) hosted a panel on June 24, 2013, a timely discussion which focused on Ronald J. Deibert’s new book, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace. The book explores the Internet’s relationship to citizenship, democracy, and human rights.
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
The Tunisia case study is the second lecture in a joint series on “The Role of Economics in Democratic Transitions” organized by the Legatum Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies, Foreign Policy, and World Affairs that explores the link between economic reform and political transitions.
