Media Information and Communication Centre of India (MICCI) is a non-profit registered trust committed to spearhead the development of media and dissemination of information in South Asia within the broad framework of economic, social and cultural milieu. It is mainly devoted to organizing seminars, conferences, workshops, research and publications in the field of media, with a national and international focus. The Trustees of MICCI include leading academicians, bureaucrats, media and communication experts.

MICCI provides a forum to the media to discuss contemporary issues, like Media’s role in disaster management and assessing rehabilitation and resettlement work done for tsunami victims, its role in assessing the state of democracy in India, contempt of court, media and judiciary, challenges faced by women journalists and sensitizing the common man for the implementation of the Right to Information Act. It also holds training workshops for rural journalists.

We have a network of Partners, Chapter Heads and Members all over India and South Asia. We have associations with some of the leading international organizations to implement and execute our various projects and programmes throughout the country.

We are also part of the US-based Stanford University’s efforts towards improving the unacceptably high maternal and childhood morbidity and mortality rates in the Indian subcontinent. This initiative aims to facilitate the implementation of known evidence-based interventions.

MICCI will take care of sensitizing the media and civil society by developing content for Community Radio and holding yearlong workshops across the country. Our resource person for this project are eminent doctors, scientists and senior media practitioners.

Our Vision

Our primary vision is to:

• Strive for development with a human face.
• Promote research, education, training, events, awareness campaigns, communication campaigns, media studies as well as development of media and mass communication with the ultimate objective of social development.
• Promote the development of the media and other communication networks within the broad frame work of economic, social and cultural progress.
• Build /create a documentation unit in which all possible material available on Indian and Asian mass media including communication networks other than the radio, television and newspaper as well as on training programmes and applied / statistical research activities will be collected.
• Encourage or implement the training of mass media personnel and others for development of communication networks.
• Undertake plan , implement and evaluate welfare and development projects in the fields of health, agriculture, environment, infrastructure, rural development, urban development, human resource development and social infrastructure.

MICCI values the support received from funding agencies and the encouragement and collaborative assistance of partner institutions. It looks forward to forging new partnerships and expanding its range of activities.