( MDDA ) was set up by an Act of Parliament (Act 14 of 2002) to enable "historically disadvantaged communities and persons not adequately served by the media" to gain access to the media. It's beneficiaries will be community media and small commercial media.

To achieve its objective, the MDDA will:

• Encourage ownership and control of, and access to, media by historically disadvantaged communities, historically diminished indigenous language and cultural groups;
• Encourage the channelling of resources to community and small commercial media;
• Encourage human resource development and capacity building in the media industry, especially amongst historically disadvantaged groups;
• Encourage research regarding media development and diversity
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Yesterday afternoon we had a very useful but steamy debate on “Putting Climate Change on the Community Agenda”.

This was a round table debate organised by the Media Diversity and Development Agency (MDDA) in partnership with Inter Press Service Africa (IPS) to bring the focus on the role of community media at COP17.

We were engaged by a women led panel discussion which included: Ms Phelisa Nkomo (Board member MDDA), Ms Paula Fray (IPS Regional Director) and Ms Ann Lamont (Greenpeace Africa Executive Director), and moderated by Advocate Robin Sewlal
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