International alternative networks are non-commercial organizations that keep pace with the development of information and media in their countries. They are not imperialist structures that are governed internally. They are independent, non-commercial options that are trying to bring multimedia into the 21st Century. They started in the 1990s. Today, they include many forms of media such as video tutorials and news websites. Many have morphed into multinational corporations and are an essential element of any democratic media strategy.
Despite the fact that these groups differ in the size, scope and location they are all joined by a noncommercial ethos and opposition to imperialist power systems. They spread their ideas through organizing information and communications reform campaigns and advocating an inclusive and egalitarian Internet. They also create new communications infrastructures to facilitate local connections as well as global developments relating to social movements.
The strength of these networks is rooted through cooperation, through organizing campaigns for social movements, as well as media reform campaigns that adapt information and communication to benefit everyone. They are creating a complex lattice of local-local, regional (especially south-south) and transnational links that bypass the old colonial links and power dynamics.
These international networks continue to create regional connections, while also promoting the democratization and reforms in information and communications. They are now a crucial part of the fight for human rights and sustainability as well as environmental sustainability.
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