ASEAN REVIEWER In practice, there are barriers to free
COMPARATIVE NATIONAL reporting by the media as an objective
COMMUNICATION POLICIES
The media, information and their
influential role in the governments are at
the center of attention of all
governments, parties and political
movements. In the recent decades, the
role of the media had been enhanced in
the field of information on the impact of
government and macro policies of the
countries.
MEDIA’S FIVE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL
ROLES IN SOCIETY:
1. It is an agent of dissemination
tasked with ensuring the free-flow of
information to a given society.
2. The media also works as the society’s
conscience.
3. The media is a part of a society’s
check and balance system.
4. The media is also a major
stakeholder in the freedom of
information as its presence ensures its
free operation while its absence restricts
its services.
5. The media also functions as a gauge
of democracy.
3 BRANCHES OF THE STATE:
1) Executive
2) Legislative
3) Judicial
and independent institution in this
region.
*The Southeast Asian governments use
various regulations and bureaucratic
means to intimidate media workers
committed to professionalism.
*Filing law suits against media workers
to exhaust them physically, financially or
both. And also, to discourage free
reporting.
*All Southeast Asian governments
impose censorship on media outlets.
RESTRICTIVE LEGAL MEASURES:
1. Licensing
2. Law Suits
3. Punitive Laws
4. Legal Rights
5. Censorship
6. Violence against Media Workers
INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
(Contemporary Development in the ASEAN Communication
Scene)
Globalization – spawned its champions
and detractors within and outside
academic circles. It is a boon to Asian
higher education since it opens up our
academic programs to Western
countries.
- It is a bane not only to our educational
system but also to our ASEAN societies
in general.
ASEAN universities should position
themselves according to their relative
strengths and strategic advantages.
Such is the fundamental ground rule in
the globalized playing field be it in area
of trade or education.
*Each country should focus on their
respective niches, be these in
computer science, information science
or communication science.
Information and communication
technology (ICT) building blocks of this
body are generated by research, both
scientific and anecdotal, involving the
documentation of best practice and
lesson learned.
Regionalization – a prelude to
globalization to allow it to grow naturally
and organically.
TRANSBORDER COMMUNICATION
ISSUES
ASEAN Border Management
Cooperation Roadmap – a framework
adapted to improve policy and practical
collaboration to address transnational
crimes at and along boarders.
TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED
CRIMES:
1. Terrorism
2. New Types of Drug Abuse and
Trafficking
3. Innovative Forms of Money
Laundering activities
4. Arms Smuggling
5. Trafficking in Women and Children
6. Piracy
ASEAN Border Management
Cooperation Roadmap – consists of
nine action items to strengthen the
capacity of law enforcement agencies…
Effective border control is therefore
one key element in combatting
transnational organized crime.
UNODC strengthens border
management through:
1. Enhancing cross-border cooperation
through multi-agency mechanisms
2. Improving capabilities to collect,
analyze and disseminate information
3. Enhancing staff knowledge and skills
through training programs
COMMUNICATION IN THE GREATER
MEKONG SUBREGION
- comprise of Cambodia, Laos,
Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and
China.
- these six countries entered into a
program of subregional economic
cooperation, designed to enhance
economic relations.
Asian Development Bank – provided
assistance on these six countries to
enter into the program…
GMS PROGRAM’S 3C to realize its
vision:
1. Strengthening connectivity
2. Improving competitiveness
3. Building a sense of community
*The GMS program has been using
economic corridors to promote
economic growth and development.
Cooperation in this sector has
contributed to a subregional
‘information superhighway’ based on
interconnected telecommunications
infrastructure.
COMMUNICATION AND BIMP-EAGA
Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-
Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN
Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) is a
cooperation initiative established in
1994 to spur development in remote and
less developed areas in the four
participating ASEAN countries.
Launched in Davao City on March 24,
BIMPEAGA was formed to generate
balance and inclusive growth.
BIMP-EAGA VISION 2025’s 3 MAIN
OUTCOMES:
1. Developing a competitive and “green”
manufacturing sector that can add value
to production
2. Creating sustainable and, competitive
and climate-resilient agriculture and
fishing industries
3. Adopting a multi-country approach to
tourism that benefits less developed
areas.
VISION 2025 is prepared with the
support from the Asian Development
Bank to provide a way forward for
members to continue narrowing
development gaps, sustainably manage
natural resources and promote stronger
connectivity.
5 STRATEGIC PILLARS OF VISION
2025:
1. enhance connectivity
2. establish the sub-region as Asia’s
food basket
3. promote BIMP-EAGA as a premier
tourism destination
4. sustainably manage natural
resources
5. promote people-to-people
connectivity
*Improve ICT infrastructure to enhance
connectivity and expand reach and
access, especially in rural areas.
*BIMP-EAGA wants to develop an e-
commerce cooperation framework for
building affordable and reliable ICT.
ACMP 2 / ASEAN COMMUNICATION
MASTERPLAN 2 created to support
VISION 2025
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
REGULATORY ENVIRONMENTS
- recognize that maintaining a
competition within
telecommunications sector is integral
to ensure consumers the best quality of
goods and services.
4 DIMENSIONS OF TRE’s:
1. Connectivity
2. Price
3. Quality of Service
4. Choice
Investment is a necessary condition for
sector performance.
Risk is the primary determinant in
making investment decision—higher the
risk, higher the expected rate of return.
3 Risk associated Environments:
1. Macro-level or country
2. Market or Commercial
3. Regulatory
Macro-level or country risk – factors
that may affect the entire economy such
as inflation, foreign exchange risk as
well as overall political stability.
Commercial risk – comprised of factors
such as demand, effect of substitute
products and services and performance
of competitors.
Regulatory risk – risk emanating from
government action
COUNTRIES;
Philippines – theoretically the most
open Southeast Asian country where
journalist have freer hand for reporting.
Vietnam and Myanmar – the two most
undemocratic regional countries.
Indonesia – media workers and their
outlets have been the target of lawsuits.
Vietnam – the government applies
criminal penalties to authors,
publications…this country’s criminal
code severely punished media workers
under a “legitimate” pretext.
Thailand – authorizes the government
to restrict freedom of speech and
freedom of the press to preserve
national security.
Myanmar – government helps pass
laws providing it with power to legally
suppress freedom of speech and the
press.
Malaysia – authorities suspended or
threatened to cancel the publishing
permits of many print media outlets.
Cambodia – controls all television and
radio stations and criminally prosecute
individuals including media workers for
expressing their views.
Thailand – serves as the lead-shepherd
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