UNESCO Paris, speaking at the 2017 Conference of ACSPN.
When I was giving my goodwill message, I pointed out the fact that the theme points to Sustainable Development Goals and that the role of communication cannot be underestimated or overestimated with respect to issues of governance and development.
It is important that communication scholarship tries to unravel the link between communicative practices and processes of governance in Africa because more often than not policy makers think of communication as an afterthought when they develop policies in these issues.
But the central argument at this conference…was that in fact communication is pivotal. It enables citizens to participate in decision making and it helps to hold the powerful to account… I was happy to see the breadth of the presentations….”
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