Despite these limitations, UNESCO has gone a long way towards assessing national media development by creating a framework which lends itself to coherently assessing the broadcasting and newspaper landscape, and by ensuring that most quantitative aspects of these indicators can be verified through the UIS media survey instruments. It is imperative that these tools remain dynamic and in line with experience and the changing environment in order to be used and adapted by practitioners. The challenge remains for UNESCO, and specifically UIS, to continue to adapt the framework and tools in striving towards an accessible and verifiable model for assessing media development in changing global conditions.