The multi-year Strengthening Independent Media Initiative (SIM) is bringing greater strategic focus and coordination to the field of independent media development. 
Key Questions
ON THE SECOND DAY OF THIS YEAR'S SIM MEETING, we aggregated the comments and questions raised by those in the audience and emerged with a working document of SIM Principles: How Donors Need to Rethink Effective Digital Media Funding.
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ON THE OPENING DAY OF THIS YEAR'S SIM MEETING, participants outlined key questions. See the graphics below for the matrix of issues that emerged.
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Barriers to access
What are the biggest barriers to access? Is it merely no broadband connectivity, or are there other forces at work? Lack of education, lack of sufficient funds, government regulation, lack of electricity?