Advancing Media Rights and Access
Overview
The goal of this work is to promote universal access, open systems and diversity in the media.
The Challenge
How media systems and technologies are governed is critical to ensuring that all people have the opportunity to tell their stories, acquire knowledge and actively participate in society. Today's high-speed Internet technology present unprecedented opportunities for people to learn, communicate and act as informed citizens.
Without fair media policies to protect the needs of the public, millions of people will remain underrepresented and excluded from important opportunities to connect, contribute and achieve.
What We're Doing
We support fair media policies that advance competition, openness, innovation and universal access to high speed internet for everyone. Our grantees are working to ensure that all people—especially the poor and marginalized—have both the means and the rights to participate in a diverse media system. Our strategies promote the right of communities to shape media policies that best represent, support, connect and advance the needs of their citizens.
Learn more about how our strategies and approaches shape our grant making.
From the Newsroom
- The Wired for Change Remix Competition Announces Winner Remixed Wired for Change video awarded for emphasizing how “uncensored Internet freedom galvanizes social innovation”
- Ford Foundation Visionary Discusses What it Takes to Start a Movement Jeremy Heimans on the potential of technology to mobilize people at a moment's notice
- Ford Foundation President Speaks at the Paley Center for Media Remarks on the need to take risks in new media development and foster a new generation of public-minded media pioneers
- Ford Foundation Appoints Jonathan Barzilay to Direct its Work on Freedom of Expression “We are tremendously excited about the fresh ideas and depth of experience he’ll bring to our work,” says Ford’s vice president for Education, Creativity and Free Expression
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What We're Following
- Hillary Clinton on Internet Rights and Wrongs U.S. Secretary of State presentation to George Washington University on Feb. 15, 2011
- A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality Tim Berners-Lee's technology feature for Scientific American Magazine
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