SECTOR 3 3.3 The body, which regulates broadcasting services and licences, does so in the public interest and ensures fairness and a diversity of views broadly representing society at large. The HACA (High Authority for Audiovisual Communication) launches a call for offers to use frequencies, before an advisory body deliberates and issues recommendations. The HACA subsequently grants the licences. An individual cannot request a frequency in his/her name – only an association can make such a request. According to the panellists, this system ensures a degree of fairness. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 3.2 (2009: 3.5) 3.4 The state/public broadcaster is accountable to the public through a board representative of society at large and selected in an independent, open and transparent manner. Past and present administrative councils have never been representative of society as a whole. The nomination of the Ivorian state broadcaster RTI’s (Radiodiffusion Télévision Ivoirienne) administrative council is in fact a process entirely driven by the President of the Republic. The council consists of 12 members drawn from the office of the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and various line ministries. The President’s representative is elected President of the Council. The administrative Council nominates the Council’s director general, in practise, but in actual fact, it still always is a political choice. 96 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER COTE D’IVOIRE 2012