1.  What is the mission of your organization?

2.  How do political agendas in your nations government and in the dominant media affect censorship of the news?

3.  What are the challenges particular to media groups and development NGOs in Africa today?

4.  Are there external factors that affect your project's work (social climate, political environment, cultural practices)?

5.  What restrictions and barriers do women face in joining the ranks of professional media workers and/or development officers in your country?

6.  Are radical new media standards needed? Why? What are they?

7.  How has technology in communication and the media contributed to furthering development in your field of work? What technology services/equipment would help you with your work?

8.  Who benefits from the services you provide and how?

9.  In what ways could the authorities in your country and in the rest of Africa create a more enabling environment for groups like yours?

10.  Do you think that "globalization" (i.e., the omnipresence of international financial institutions and services, the priority given to global economic strategies over national or regional economies, corporate dominance of media information) is having an impact on your work and the communities you target?

11.  How have you sought to increase the size of your audience or the groups receiving your products and services? How do you fund your project?

12.  Tell us about your staff — e.g., who are they? How did staff members come to work at the organization, what experiences have brought people together in support of the organization's mission?

13.  What is the size of your organization?

14.  What are your organizational strengths? Weaknesses?

15.  What kind of help does your organization need?

16.  Do you have data, models or other resources you might be willing to share with other nonprofit groups?

17.  Have you had any successful collaboration with other media groups in your region? What was the collaboration about? If so, how did the collaboration work?

18.  If you are a news organization how do you collect your information?

19.  What are the main Internet news/media sites that you use on a regular basis?

20.  What media issues are at the forefront in your area?

21.  What do you feel you contribute to your community?

22.  Do you feel you have an impact on the media made in your area? Please explain.
 

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