The International Programme for the Development of Communication: A decade of infancy
The IPDC, which at inception promised practical assistance to developing nations unencumbered by the conflicting ideologies of the First and Third Worlds, quickly fell short of expectations and has been largely ignored since the mid-1980s. Despite administrative and budget problems, the Programme remains an acceptable, if small, effort to address communications imbalances. Most projects approved for funding in the past decade have dealt with media training and research, radio and television broadcasting, and the creation or improvement of regional news agencies. In support of the 1991 Declaration of Windhoek, future projects will be funded not only according to need, but also based on their contributions to press freedom and the principles of independence, pluralism and diversity of the media.
International Program for the Development of Communication: the Trouble With Meteors Is That They Die Fast
The International Program for the Development of Communication (IPDC) was launched with much fanfare at the 21 st UNESCO General Conference in late 1980. The IPDC was seen as the meteoroid on the communication horizon, whose creation was lauded jointly by the developing and the developed countries. A U.S. delegate to the 1980 Belgrade Conference saw the IPDC &dquo;as a potentially useful vehicle for channelling UNESCO and other available resources and energies into issues of communication development ...&dquo;’ At the other extreme, Mustapha Masmoudi, the leading champion of the new international information order observed:
Nietzsche's Moral Philosophy
Expounds and criticizes the moral consequences of Nietzsche's basic concept of the will to power. This study argues that Nietzsche's doctrines on moral subjects reveal a man profoundly torn between different and conflicting impulses.