Jermani Ojeda Ludena:
I have attended the event "Creating an enabling environment for free and independent Indigenous Community Media." This UNPFII22 side event was intended to reflect and share experiences of Indigenous people on media. The main take away of this event was knowing Indigenous brothers and sisters who are working on big media projects in New Zealand, Canada and Nepal.
As a Quechua broadcaster and scholar, I consider it very important to contribute to helping my community to gain more access to media and most importantly to have control of the media as part of getting our self-determination. Independent Indigenous media is part of the process of gaining Indigenous territorial self-determination. In my country we have just some experiences of independent Indigenous Community Media, mainly in the Andean region but with a short range. In the Peruvian mainstream media, we just have very limited access, and they are very marginal in time and space. The experiences of the Māori, Native American, and Nepali Indigenous Television and Radio shared in the event, are very inspiring and helpful for my future projects as an Indigenous activist.
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