Members

RNW Media is an international organisation based in the Netherlands that aspires to empower young women and men to unleash their own potential for social change, in a way that suits the young people themselves. RNW's mission is to identify young people’s needs, and bring them together in user-owned digital communities where they can safely engage on taboos and sensitive topics, generating strong stories for advocacy to unleash their potential for social change.

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, or WAN-IFRA, is the global organisation of the world’s press. It derives its authority from its global network of 3,000 news publishing companies and technology entrepreneurs, and its legitimacy from its 80 member publisher associations representing 18,000 publications in 120 countries.   Our mission is to defend and promote press freedom, clear the way to innovation and help independent news publishing companies to succeed in their transformation process, increase their business and perform their crucial role in open societies.  

The Panos Network is a grouping of six autonomous regional Institutes, committed to a world where communities build open, democratic and sustainable societies aimed at social justice, within and between countries, with free and diversified information and communication flows, including an independent and plural media, with a shared mission, to ensure that information and communication are effectively used to foster public debate, pluralism and democracy within and between countries, working with media and other information actors to enable people and communities to shape and communicate their own development agendas, amplifying the voices of the vulnerable, marginalised and excluded people. The Panos Network and its member Institutes contribute to sustainable development and democracy - at local, national and international levels - through the strengthening of media, information and communication processes and partnerships.  They share the belief that: