The NAM News Network (NNN) is the transformation of the now-defunct NANAP or Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool. The resurrection was with the concurrence and endorsement of the Sixth Conference of Ministers of Information of Non-Aligned Countries (COMINAC VI) hosted by Malaysia in November 2005.
As a revitalised entity the NNN makes the most of the Internet and ICT applications for speedy and affordable communications among its members.
By any measure, the NNN is Malaysia's gift to NAM but it is only workable if like-minded fellow NAM members subscribe to the continuing relevance of a revitalised NAM through increased flows of news and information.
The NNN sees itself as an alternative source of information rather than being in competition with other major news services. Essentially it would serve as a conduit for NAM member countries to tell their story and use it as a yet another tool of communication for them.
It is also incumbent upon the NNN to assume the role of a creator of awareness of the potential that exists for expanding trade and economic collaboration among business communities of NAM member countries through intelligence-sharing and building of e-knowledge capacity.
Facing the reality of NAM member countries accounting for less than 20 per cent of world exports and less than 15 per cent of world imports, the NNN is striving to contribute towards the acceleration of the pace of growth in trade among them.
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The
COMINAC VI (The Sixth Conference
of Ministers of Information
of Non-Aligned Countries was
where the idea of the NAM News
Network (NNN) was conceived
and endorsed. Malaysian Deputy
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib
Tun Razak poses for posterity
with the ministers after officiating
at the conference hosted by
Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur on
November 21st 2005. |
