Southern African Development Community
''communication''
means the process of relaying or imparting information
and meaning thereof;
"cultural agents"
means persons working in the field of culture, including
creators, performers, administrators and professionals
associated with such cultural activities as audio-visual
arts, visual arts, crafts, the performing arts, publishing, the
cultural heritage and cultural tourism;
"cultural industries"
means the production, whether for sale, consumption or
enjoyment, of cultural products which seek to educate,
inform and entertain with messages, symbols, information
or moral and aesthetic values of a given people or society;
"culture"
means, as the totality of a people's way of life, the whole
complex of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and
emotional features that characterise a society or social
group, and includes not only arts and literature, but also
modes of life, the fundamental rights of the human being,
value systems, traditions and beliefs;
"disability"
means lack of utilisation of a part or parts of one's body;
forms ofmedia
Means community media, commercial media, public
media, regional media and global media;
"gender"
Means the socially and culturally constructed roles,
privileges, responsibilities, power and influence, social
relations, expectations and values of men and women,
girls and boys;
''harmonisation''
means arrangements agreed upon, accepted and adopted
by Member States for the purpose of policy formulation,
training of cultural agents, information workers, media
practitioners and sports personnel;
"indigenous language"
means a language indigenous or native to a State Party,
which is not a language of a migrant or non-native social
group;
Protocol on Culture,Information and Sport
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