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New World Information and Communication Order  

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  • The New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) was younger sister to a 1974 UN-sponsored proposal for a New International Economic Order (NIEO). NIEO had advocated an equitable economic relationship between nations of what (at that time) were commonly described as the first and third worlds (denoting developed and developing economies respectively). [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO)]

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