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Communications Landscaping - North and Latin American Transnational Communities: Research Team
Fernando Calero Aparicio
Email: fercaleroa@citurna.com.co
fercaleroa@hotmail.com
During the past year, Mr. Calero has been in charge of the research on the transnational communities and communication assigned by the Rockefeller Foundation to Communications Initiative For Latin America through Citurna Ltda. This research covers norms and regulation aspects, the means by which people communicate, and innovating experiences in communications for Central America, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. He has also been an advisor for the Venezuelan AD Little consulting firm and was consulted as an expert on open television for the Colombian National Planning Directorate (DNP) "Restructuring TV Sector Industrial and Commercial Companies".
For a year and a half (from 2001 to 2002) he held the post of Chief of the Colombian National Television Commission Planning Office (CNTV) where he directed the Sector Development Plan and the Institution's Strategic Plan. He directed evaluations on audiences and Public TV programming and did consulting on aspects related to the Board of Directors for that institution. He was also Coordinator for the publication "La Televisión que Colombia Necesita; documento de consulta para el Plan de Desarrollo del Sector" (The TV that Colombia Needs; Reference Document for the Sector Development Plan).
He taught communications at the Universidad del Valle Communications School from 1976 to 2001, in the fields of communications and cultural policies, media direction, production and analysis, particularly TV. In the same institution, he was Director of Informal Education and Vice-rector of Distance Learning.
From 1994 to 1997 he was Asociación de Televisión Educativa Iberoamericana (ATEI) TV Programming and Service Director in Madrid, Spain. This was a program for the Summits of the Chiefs of State and Government for Cooperation. More than 200 educational institutions, Ministries of Education and Culture, and radio broadcasting companies from all Latin American countries and Spain participated in those summits.
He directed Instituto de Radio y Televisión-INRAVISION (Radio and Institution Institute) and was in charge of enforcing public service policies, awarding programming spaces, and controlling and regulating the service from 1983 to 1984. He also directed the Public Service Television, Television Regional Organization for the Colombian Southwest, TELEPACIFICO, from 1989 to 1992.
He obtained his BA in Social Sciences from N.Y. State University in Buffalo, New York in the United States and his MS in Urban and Regional Planning from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois in the United States. From 1986 to 1987, he worked on his Media Studies Associateship at the University of London Education Institute in the United Kingdom. And, since 1996 he has been working on his PhD at UNED, Spain. He attended the Oxford University Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy: "Legal Responses to New Communication Technologies", Oxford, UK, 2003. He was trained as Television Director and Producer by the British Council (1980) and by BBC (1987).
His recent writings include "The Colombian Media, Modes and Perspectives in Television", in Latin Politics, Global Media, E. Fox and S. Waisbord, eds. University of Texas Press, 2002 and "Latin America, Consequences of a Policy of Non-policies" in Strengthening Democratic Voices, The Finnish National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO – Paris, 1998.
He has produced and directed various television programs and in 1988 he was awarded a "Mention of Honor" in the XII Caracas Film and Video Festival, for his documentary "Carmina Burana: Montaje de un Sueño" (Carmina Burana: Producing a Dream).
His interests are new communications and media strategies and policies, public service, media and education, communication and development, TV production and direction.
August 2004
Ligia Consuelo Macías Acuña lmacias@citurna.com.co ligiacmacias@yahoo.com
Ms. Macias graduated as professional in Social Communications in the Audiovisual Production field from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia in 2003.
During the past year, she has devoted herself to being research assistant for the project "Panorama de las comunicaciones entre comunidades transnacionales de América del Norte y Latinoamérica" (Communications Panorama among North American and Latin American Transnational Communities), assigned by the Rockefeller Foundation to the Communications Initiative for Latin America through Citurna Ltda. This research covers norms and regulation aspects, and communications experiences associated to migration processes among Central American countries and among Mexico, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Guatemala and the United States.
From May to August 2003, she participated in a research project for the Cundinamarca Governor's Office on education modalities in the Rural Education Program (PER) and on the use of community radio as an educational tool. Based on this research work, she prepared scripts for informational videos on these topics.
From July 2002 to April 2003, she did research, audiovisual scripts, screenwriting, and revision work for Bengala Producciones. She was part of the creative workshop and of the group in charge of the design and screenwriting for a television series known as "Cierre de edición" (The Presses are Closing).
During the first semester of 2002, she worked on her graduation paper, an analysis known as "Familias de Horario Estelar: Representación de la familia en las telenovelas colombianas" (Primetime Families: Family Representation in Colombian Soap Operas) her director was media analyst, Omar Rincón.
She was part of the group that did the research for the article "La aventura semiótica del cómic" (The Semiotic Adventure of Comics), First Edition, published in the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana School of Communications and Language, Linguistics and Semiotic Department Interlanguages magazine for the first semester of 2000.
Her main topics of interest are the relationship among communication media, culture and development, and the use of media for educational purposes.
August 2004
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During the past year, Mr. Calero has been in charge of the research on the transnational communities and communication assigned by the Rockefeller Foundation to Communications Initiative For Latin America through Citurna Ltda. This research covers norms and regulation aspects, the means by which people communicate, and innovating experiences in communications for Central America, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. He has also been an advisor for the Venezuelan AD Little consulting firm and was consulted as an expert on open television for the Colombian National Planning Directorate (DNP) "Restructuring TV Sector Industrial and Commercial Companies".
For a year and a half (from 2001 to 2002) he held the post of Chief of the Colombian National Television Commission Planning Office (CNTV) where he directed the Sector Development Plan and the Institution's Strategic Plan. He directed evaluations on audiences and Public TV programming and did consulting on aspects related to the Board of Directors for that institution. He was also Coordinator for the publication "La Televisión que Colombia Necesita; documento de consulta para el Plan de Desarrollo del Sector" (The TV that Colombia Needs; Reference Document for the Sector Development Plan).
He taught communications at the Universidad del Valle Communications School from 1976 to 2001, in the fields of communications and cultural policies, media direction, production and analysis, particularly TV. In the same institution, he was Director of Informal Education and Vice-rector of Distance Learning.
From 1994 to 1997 he was Asociación de Televisión Educativa Iberoamericana (ATEI) TV Programming and Service Director in Madrid, Spain. This was a program for the Summits of the Chiefs of State and Government for Cooperation. More than 200 educational institutions, Ministries of Education and Culture, and radio broadcasting companies from all Latin American countries and Spain participated in those summits.
He directed Instituto de Radio y Televisión-INRAVISION (Radio and Institution Institute) and was in charge of enforcing public service policies, awarding programming spaces, and controlling and regulating the service from 1983 to 1984. He also directed the Public Service Television, Television Regional Organization for the Colombian Southwest, TELEPACIFICO, from 1989 to 1992.
He obtained his BA in Social Sciences from N.Y. State University in Buffalo, New York in the United States and his MS in Urban and Regional Planning from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois in the United States. From 1986 to 1987, he worked on his Media Studies Associateship at the University of London Education Institute in the United Kingdom. And, since 1996 he has been working on his PhD at UNED, Spain. He attended the Oxford University Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy: "Legal Responses to New Communication Technologies", Oxford, UK, 2003. He was trained as Television Director and Producer by the British Council (1980) and by BBC (1987).
His recent writings include "The Colombian Media, Modes and Perspectives in Television", in Latin Politics, Global Media, E. Fox and S. Waisbord, eds. University of Texas Press, 2002 and "Latin America, Consequences of a Policy of Non-policies" in Strengthening Democratic Voices, The Finnish National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO – Paris, 1998.
He has produced and directed various television programs and in 1988 he was awarded a "Mention of Honor" in the XII Caracas Film and Video Festival, for his documentary "Carmina Burana: Montaje de un Sueño" (Carmina Burana: Producing a Dream).
His interests are new communications and media strategies and policies, public service, media and education, communication and development, TV production and direction.
August 2004
Ligia Consuelo Macías Acuña lmacias@citurna.com.co ligiacmacias@yahoo.com
Ms. Macias graduated as professional in Social Communications in the Audiovisual Production field from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia in 2003.
During the past year, she has devoted herself to being research assistant for the project "Panorama de las comunicaciones entre comunidades transnacionales de América del Norte y Latinoamérica" (Communications Panorama among North American and Latin American Transnational Communities), assigned by the Rockefeller Foundation to the Communications Initiative for Latin America through Citurna Ltda. This research covers norms and regulation aspects, and communications experiences associated to migration processes among Central American countries and among Mexico, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Guatemala and the United States.
From May to August 2003, she participated in a research project for the Cundinamarca Governor's Office on education modalities in the Rural Education Program (PER) and on the use of community radio as an educational tool. Based on this research work, she prepared scripts for informational videos on these topics.
From July 2002 to April 2003, she did research, audiovisual scripts, screenwriting, and revision work for Bengala Producciones. She was part of the creative workshop and of the group in charge of the design and screenwriting for a television series known as "Cierre de edición" (The Presses are Closing).
During the first semester of 2002, she worked on her graduation paper, an analysis known as "Familias de Horario Estelar: Representación de la familia en las telenovelas colombianas" (Primetime Families: Family Representation in Colombian Soap Operas) her director was media analyst, Omar Rincón.
She was part of the group that did the research for the article "La aventura semiótica del cómic" (The Semiotic Adventure of Comics), First Edition, published in the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana School of Communications and Language, Linguistics and Semiotic Department Interlanguages magazine for the first semester of 2000.
Her main topics of interest are the relationship among communication media, culture and development, and the use of media for educational purposes.
August 2004
Back to Table of Contents.
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