Tuesday 30 December 2008

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2532

There are 2 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1a. Re: AMARC AsiaPac interview
From: Vickram Crishna

2a. Re: ZURICH (Reuters) - MP3 player guides rescuers to lost tourists
From: Vickram Crishna


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1a. Re: AMARC AsiaPac interview
Posted by: "Vickram Crishna" v1clist@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:29 pm ((PST))

The embedded link (apparently stripped off by Yahoo) to the interview itself is here: <http://www.radioandmusic.com/content/editorial/interviews/amarc-asia-pac-president-ashish-sen-we-need-more-information-disseminated-about-availabilit>

Vickram
http://communicall.wordpress.com
http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com


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From: Vickram Crishna <v1clist@yahoo.co.uk>
To: CR India <cr-india@sarai.net>; Creative Radio <creative-radio@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 29 December, 2008 18:08:00
Subject: [creative-radio] AMARC AsiaPac interview


Ashish Sen, AsiaPac head of AMARC, is interviewed in the current issue of RadioandMusic by Aparna Joshi, following the recent meeting in Bihar, supported by Action Aid.


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2a. Re: ZURICH (Reuters) - MP3 player guides rescuers to lost tourists
Posted by: "Vickram Crishna" v1clist@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:29 pm ((PST))

Hypothermia? Darn! Guess they only had cool jazz playing.

Vickram
http://communicall.wordpress.com
http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com


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From: George Lessard <media@web.net>
To: creative-radio@yahoogroups.com
Cc: mediamentor@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 29 December, 2008 20:28:46
Subject: [creative-radio] ZURICH (Reuters) - MP3 player guides rescuers to lost tourists


MP3 player guides rescuers to lost tourists

ZURICH (Reuters) - The light from an MP3 player saved two lost tourists
from a chilly night stuck out in the snowy Swiss mountains, rescue
authorities said Saturday.

[...]

They were able to alert authorities using a mobile phone, but it then ran
out of battery power, Baumann said.

"The two winter sports enthusiasts were found by the crew of the Rega
helicopter shortly after midnight -- thanks to the faint light of their
MP3 player," he said.

The two men had only mild hypothermia.

http://ca.news. yahoo.com/ s/reuters/ 081229/tecnology /ctech_us_ swiss_rescue


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Monday 29 December 2008

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2531

There are 8 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1a. INDIA: Experts ask media to boost Community Radio Movement
From: George Lessard
1b. Re: INDIA: Experts ask media to boost Community Radio Movement
From: George Lessard

2. Community Radio, one of the development tools for the voiceless.
From: George Lessard

3. Kathmandu, Nepal: Alliance for press freedom to continue its protest
From: George Lessard

4. Dear friends, we need news from Palestine!
From: George Lessard

5. Creativeradio traffic report for Saturday, December 27, 2008
From: George Lessard

6. AMARC AsiaPac interview
From: Vickram Crishna

7. ZURICH (Reuters) - MP3 player guides rescuers to lost tourists
From: George Lessard


Messages
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1a. INDIA: Experts ask media to boost Community Radio Movement
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:07 am ((PST))

December 28, 2008
Experts ask media to boost Community Radio Movement

http://studyinindiainfo.com/2008/12/experts-ask-media-to-boost-community.html

[excerpt]

.
Have you ever heard anybody calling radio an 'Idiot Box'? Never. Yet Radio
experience in India has mostly been from gigantic broadcasting house, All
India Radio. The recently emerged FM radios are only cosmetic boredom,
like TVs, to the concept of development of grassroots of population. The
conference on 'Community Radio : Practices and Possibilities' at Indira
Gandhi National Open University recently discussed a plethora of issues
dogging the grassroots and lamented the current state of Indian community
radio (CR) movement started way back in 1951 during India's initial Plan
years.

Indian Media drew most flak for ignoring a movement very core in the
concept of democracy and development of a nation. They should have
prioritized the CR movement and its processes of how to create awareness
among umpteen communities about their rights, opportunities, vocational
expertise, knowledge and the need to avail themselves of these. They
should have concertedly raised region and issue-specific CRs addressing
target communities, with a view to improving their living condition.
Instead, what the post-Independent Indian media did was far removed from
the necessity of development journalism, was what ired the speakers in the
conference.

The Government Policy of Community Radio, 2002 promised to set up over
4,000 CRs, but till date India only set up 45, that too mostly in public
sector. Compare this with its 35-year-old neighbour – Bangladesh' feat. It
already charted 140 CRs to boast of. The Bangladesh Government officially
adopted a CR policy only in 2008, in response to the World bank vision for
"a world free of poverty".

Former Information Commissioner Dr OP Kejariwal stressed, "Though our
generation speaks of globalization, we rather need more focus on
glocalisation. So along with broadcasting, we need narrowcasting. If we
adapt modern broadcast technologies for local broadcasts, we have
community radio, where we have communities participating not only as
broadcasters but as listeners too."

Lauding the efforts of the School, Vice Chancellor Professor V N
Rajasekharan Pillai said, "Community Radio programme is a new tool for
information dissemination at the grassroots level. It fits well in the
IGNOU's larger aim of improving the quality of life of the masses. It's
probable that Community Radios go on to revolusionise not only developing
countries, but also the developed nations where underprivileged and
marginalized communities still exist."

Former director of IGNOU's nerve centre Electronic Media Production Centre
(EMPC), Dr R Sreedhar, who currently is Director of Commonwealth
Educational Media Centre in Asia (CEMCA), identified the basic problems in
development of CRs in India. He said, "The lack of media literacy,
training and professionalism have been basic hurdles in disseminating
awareness programmes of the Community Radio." Dr Sreedhar also explained
how easy is it to generate fund for making the CRs self-sufficient, even
without any outside funding.

Suman Basnet, South Asian regional director of World Association of
Community Radio Broadcasters or Associacion Mundial De Radio Comunitarias
(AMARC) narrated highlights of evolution of CR and said, "India is the
first country in South Asia to have an independent CR policy. Miracles of
community radio broadcasting are just waiting to happen." A conglomerate
of over 4,000 community radios in 115 countries, AMARC is only eager to
hand-hold genuine Indian efforts to solidify the CR movement in South
Asia.

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1b. Re: INDIA: Experts ask media to boost Community Radio Movement
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:05 pm ((PST))

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: [cr-india] INDIA: Experts ask media to boost Community Radio
Movement
From: "periyapatna satheesh" <satheeshperiyapatna@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, December 28, 2008 22:46
To: creative-radio@yahoogroups.com
media@web.net
Cc: "sajan venniyoor" <venniyoor@gmail.com>
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As usual "experts" sit down and tell how Community Radio should function.
Particularly interesting is the VC's statement

"Lauding the efforts of the School, Vice Chancellor Professor V N
Rajasekharan Pillai said, "Community Radio programme is a new tool for
information _dissemination_ at the grassroots level. It fits well in the
IGNOU's larger aim of improving the quality of life of the masses. It's
probable that Community Radios go on to revolusionise not only developing
countries, but also the developed nations where underprivileged and
marginalized communities still exist."

The poor "experts" still do not understand that CR is hacking at their
hegemonious control of media and it is grassroots democracy at action. If
at all any dissemination is needed it should be into the monolotthic
corporate media of the country. And the disseminator this time has to be
the grassroots. The dissemination has to be ground up so that the
"experts" understand what is happening in the country and what are the
visions of development that the farmers, women and the excluded bring to
media debate. Otherwise all the "experts" will become irrelevant for thie
country. It is this kind of expertise that created never-ending media
maatam on Taj attack while the same media did not have the elementary
decency to report the gravity of the situation behind the suicide of 1.5
lakh farmers in ten years.

The CR movement, when it really fructifies might also want a separation of
the Virtual India that lives in the university campuses and media houses
fom the Real Bharat that lives in the farms and homes or very small rural
people: farmers, women and artisans.

satheesh

--- On Sun, 28/12/08, George Lessard <media@web.net> wrote:
From: George Lessard <media@web.net>
Subject: [cr-india] INDIA: Experts ask media to boost Community Radio
Movement
To: creative-radio@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, 28 December, 2008, 9:08 AM

December 28, 2008
Experts ask media to boost Community Radio Movement

http://studyinindiainfo.com/2008/12/experts-ask-media-to-boost-community.html

[excerpt]

.
Have you ever heard anybody calling radio an 'Idiot Box'? Never. Yet
Radio
experience in India has mostly been from gigantic broadcasting house, All
India Radio. The recently emerged FM radios are only cosmetic boredom,
like TVs, to the concept of development of grassroots of population. The
conference on 'Community Radio : Practices and Possibilities' at Indira
Gandhi National Open University recently discussed a plethora of issues
dogging the grassroots and lamented the current state of Indian community
radio (CR) movement started way back in 1951 during India's initial Plan
years.

Indian Media drew most flak for ignoring a movement very core in the
concept of democracy and development of a nation. They should have
prioritized the CR movement and its processes of how to create awareness
among umpteen communities about their rights, opportunities, vocational
expertise, knowledge and the need to avail themselves of these. They
should have concertedly raised region and issue-specific CRs addressing
target communities, with a view to improving their living condition.
Instead, what the post-Independent Indian media did was far removed from
the necessity of development journalism, was what ired the speakers in the
conference.

The Government Policy of Community Radio, 2002 promised to set up over
4,000 CRs, but till date India only set up 45, that too mostly in public
sector. Compare this with its 35-year-old neighbour Bangladesh' feat. It
already charted 140 CRs to boast of. The Bangladesh Government officially
adopted a CR policy only in 2008, in response to the World bank vision for
"a world free of poverty".

Former Information Commissioner Dr OP Kejariwal stressed, "Though our
generation speaks of globalization, we rather need more focus on
glocalisation. So along with broadcasting, we need narrowcasting. If we
adapt modern broadcast technologies for local broadcasts, we have
community radio, where we have communities participating not only as
broadcasters but as listeners too."

Lauding the efforts of the School, Vice Chancellor Professor V N
Rajasekharan Pillai said, "Community Radio programme is a new tool for
information dissemination at the grassroots level. It fits well in the
IGNOU's larger aim of improving the quality of life of the masses. It's
probable that Community Radios go on to revolusionise not only developing
countries, but also the developed nations where underprivileged and
marginalized communities still exist."

Former director of IGNOU's nerve centre Electronic Media Production Centre
(EMPC), Dr R Sreedhar, who currently is Director of Commonwealth
Educational Media Centre in Asia (CEMCA), identified the basic problems in
development of CRs in India. He said, "The lack of media literacy,
training and professionalism have been basic hurdles in disseminating
awareness programmes of the Community Radio." Dr Sreedhar also explained
how easy is it to generate fund for making the CRs self-sufficient, even
without any outside funding.

Suman Basnet, South Asian regional director of World Association of
Community Radio Broadcasters or Associacion Mundial De Radio Comunitarias
(AMARC) narrated highlights of evolution of CR and said, "India is the
first country in South Asia to have an independent CR policy. Miracles of
community radio broadcasting are just waiting to happen." A conglomerate
of over 4,000 community radios in 115 countries, AMARC is only eager to
hand-hold genuine Indian efforts to solidify the CR movement in South
Asia.

_______________________________________________
cr-india mailing list
cr-india@sarai.net
https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india

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2. Community Radio, one of the development tools for the voiceless.
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:09 am ((PST))

Be Community Radio one of the development tools for the voiceless.
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC).is promoting
the advocacy with the government in relation to community radio with other
organizations since its emergence. Community Radio is playing very
significant role in the countries of South Asia responding to other
regions of the world. Recently Information Ministry of the People's
Republic of Bangladesh formulated Community Radio Installation, Broadcast
and Operation Policy 2008 and we would thank the Government for this
policy.

State is still a sweeping entity to the poor people in Bangladesh, where
to reach is tiresome and dialogue is beyond imagination. At the same time,
even their own community neglects the voice of the poor people. In this
circumstance, promoting, empowering and extension of community radio can
play significant role in alleviating poverty through creating easy access
of the poor to the information highway.


more

http://bnnrc.blogspot.com/2008/12/be-community-radio-one-of-development.html

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3. Kathmandu, Nepal: Alliance for press freedom to continue its protest
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:19 am ((PST))

Alliance for press freedom to continue its protests
Nepalnews.com - Kathmandu,Nepal
Alliance for press freedom to continue its protests

The Alliance for press freedom, which was formed in the wake of assault
against Himalmedia by pro-Maoist workers, has decided to continue its
protest programmes.

It has stated that all its member newspapers, TV stations, radio stations
would relay similar messages to champion the cause of press freedom. For
the time being, they have fixed 'Our struggle for press freedom continues'
as the slogan, which will be highlighted consistently.

The alliance has said that its protest campaign will continue until and
unless the authorities detain two pro-Maoist trade union leaders Ramesh
Babu Panta and Ramesh KC – who were identified as being directly involved
in attacking Himalmedia.

Likewise, they have also demanded that the government tender apology and
provide reliable commitment to protect press freedom.

The alliance has added that it supports the trade union rights and the
rights to collective bargaining of workers but would not stand violation
of press freedom under any pretext.

The Alliance was formed on Tuesday and includes Media Society, Association
of Community Radio Broadcasters, Broadcasting Association of Nepal and
Kathmandu Valley FM Broadcasters. nepalnews.com Dec 24 08
<http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2008/dec/dec24/news12.php>

Journalists take out rally protesting attack on free press

Media persons took out a rally and staged sit-in demonstration at the
prohibited area in the capital city Tuesday protesting the recent violent
attacks against free press.

They also condemned Monday's police intervention on their peaceful rally
which left about a dozen journalists injured.
Journalists organising sit-in programme at the Southern entrance of Singha
Durbar, protesting the attack on Himalmedia by pro-Maoist workers,
Tuesday, Dec 23 08. Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) organised the
protest. nepalnews.com/ANA

The rally taken out from Babarmahal gathered at the southern gate of Singh
Durbar, a prohibited area, and assembly and demonstration were organized.
Civil Society leaders, senior journalists, political party leaders and
professionals from various field participated in the rally organized by
Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ).

Speaking at the gathering, senior journalists flayed growing intervention
in free press and demanded independent probe into the attack on
Himalmedia. They also demanded that the perpetrators of the assualt should
be brought to book.

Meanwhile, reports say that district branches of FNJ organized similar
demonstration programmes in various districts across the country against
the attack since early this morning.

The journalists' umbrella organisation has called for a nation-wide
protest starting Tuesday against the attack on the media houses and the
journalists by Maoist affiliated trade unions. nepalnews.com Dec 23 08

http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2008/dec/dec23/news09.php

Watch the video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsrNnQRHksU


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4. Dear friends, we need news from Palestine!
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:31 am ((PST))

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: MENA Dear friends, we need news from Palestine!
From: "Fouad Roueiha" <fouad.roueiha@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, December 28, 2008 09:57
To: mena@lists.amarc.org
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In Italy there is an extreme lack of information about what is happening in
Gaza. There isn't any voice of Palestinian people in Italian main stream
media, and there is very few in independent media.
So please, let me know if you did any special radio show about this events,
if you have any contact with Gaza's hospitalsor journalists inside the
strip, anything that could help us to spread informations about what is
really happening on the ground and the voices of Palestinian people and
civil society organization.
I'm going to try to have as more English interview as possible, in English
in order to share the audio files with AMARC Europe members, and I'll do my
best to do some in Arabic and to translate to Italian and English. I'll try
even to spread the voice of Isareli pacifists (Peace Now, Betselem,
Refusnick, combatants for peace ecc...) please help me: European people
must know, in order to put pressure on their government and to help
directly the peace cause.

Fouad <fouad.roueiha@gmail.com>

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5. Creativeradio traffic report for Saturday, December 27, 2008
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:37 am ((PST))

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6. AMARC AsiaPac interview
Posted by: "Vickram Crishna" v1clist@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:02 am ((PST))

Ashish Sen, AsiaPac head of AMARC, is interviewed in the current issue of RadioandMusic by Aparna Joshi, following the recent meeting in Bihar, supported by Action Aid.

It is an interesting interview, lengthy enough to cover several important matters. I have excerpted a few, with my comments inline.

Technology: "There needs to be more information disseminated about the availability
of appropriate and low cost technology in setting up community radio
stations. For instance, very few are aware of NOMAD technology that is
authorized manufactures of low cost transmitters. Most of us are aware
only of BEL and WEBEL (also authorized dealers) whose costs are far
steeper and beyond the reach of the aam aadmi. If community radio is to
assert itself as a "voice for and of the voiceless" there needs to be
greater impetus given towards providing and accessing low cost
technology.
"

Comment: It is a pity that Ashish does not mention the possibility of DIY construction, something that actually helped his own VOICES aided community media station, Namma Dhwani, to come up, using cable radio, at a time when the government, sans policy, proscribed community broadcasting. While there are places in India where cable radio is not an option, because of the local population's geo-spatial, economic and gender distribution, it is still a viable and relatively inexpensive solution for many. In addition, self-made TXs are far cheaper than any manufactured set, and also encourage entrepreneurship (what Nehru called self-reliance) in construction and maintenance.

Sure, the Nomad sets are 'authorised' (and represent an international effort to promote CR), but why has the government imposed the need for authorising particular manufacturers, instead of simply publishing standards and allowing Indians to help themselves? This is particularly poignant considering the interview talks about the meeting in Bihar, which is where the use of a DIY Tx led to an international outcry against Indian government policy on CR, leading to the amendments that finally kicked off true grassroots stations. Later in this interview, Sen talks about the need for strengthening the CR Forum, and I wish he had spelt out how this would help bring about self-reliance.

C for campus or community?: "...the single window clearance should be applicable for ngo/cbo applicants alike and not just for campus radio applicants.
There needs to be more inclusiveness - both in spirit and practice -
within the sector. While respecting differences between campus
community and grass roots community stations, we need to build bridges
between both to ensure a vibrant community radio climate in the
country.
"

Comment: In fact, the attitude of the government (both the Wireless Adviser office and the I&B ministry) has been directed in exacerbating differences between these two forms of public radio, perhaps in order to prevent them from chipping away at PB's remaining domain. Or maybe they are just ornery, eh?

Rural/Urban divide: "The relevance of community radio in rural and remote areas is not
disputed. But we also need to ensure that we do not lose sight of the
wood for the trees. Community Radio has a vital role to play in
addressing urban poverty and providing the urban poor and less
privileged communities with a powerful voice."

Comment: As has been pointed out on this list by others, some cities have as many as 3 campus stations jostling around each other, with no space yet given for any other form of grassroots 'voices'. Apparently the vision of a community-driven media service has not yet penetrated our worthy (and unelected, do I need to point out?) panjandrum's consciousness, despite so many years of desperate advocacy.

Frequency allocation: "The paucity of frequencies for community radio stations, as articulated
by official quarters, is worrying and needs to be reviewed."

Comment: In fact, The Wireless Adviser openly allots only three discrete frequencies for CR, and completely ignores the paucity of actual usage of this band across the country. I recall someone (was it Sajan?) had advocated using this list to monitor FM usage across the country, and I think that is a very practical idea. Publishing such usage in the format of a distribution map will go a long way in making up the gap in information dissemination (unfortunately still a defining characteristic of the government). Without such action, it is fairly obvious that the office of the Wireless Adviser has absolutely no intention of taking proactive action to promote CR in India (be it in the form of community and/or campus radio stations.

Commercial is another story, since we witness pains taken to enable nationally owned or promoted stations to maintain the same frequency across the country, presumably as a moneysaving branding exercise. Incidentally, in other countries such as the US, I believe such stations have a four letter callsign, not a frequency. When the move to digital broadcasting takes place, this question - or should I say opportunity? as in golden goose - will no longer be relevant).

In late 1871, one of Bombay University's first engineering graduates, Samuel Nagavkar, joined the PWD in the erstwhile Mysore State. An upright man, he is quoted as later advising a son-in-law, who was about to take up a government post, that 'dishonesty did not consist only in being corrupt, but that a man who did not put forth his best effort in the discharge of his duties was "guilty of gross dishonesty." ' I fear that till today, this is observed more in the breach.

News: "The ban on news. This contradicts and inhibits some of the key
objectives of community radio which seeks to provide local/community
information for local/community needs. Further, it is not clear what
constitutes news."

Comment: I mentioned in an earlier post what the government view on this is, as stated at the Ahmedabad consultation: acceptable news on non-government stations (including commercial, I assume, since they also languish in a grey area) consists of announcements, unlike on the government-owned channels. I suppose 'my sister's wedding' announcement will be allowed, but no comments on what the guests wore, or who showed up. Announcing the tsunami about to hit will be ok, but nothing about the hoarding of stocks by the unscrupulous, or sale by them of donated relief supplies, once said tsunami has passed, and decimated the listening audience.

Monitoring of news: Ashish does not make any suggestions. However, several of us in this list have suggested this activity be devolved down to the local level, especially given the vibrancy of the local language and culture, without knowing which it is impossible to assess the value of the content. Needless to say, this is pretty well anathema to the Centre, which remains adamant about surrendering any effective power to the States. I see no reason why the States need be involved, actually, since the Centre can directly appoint local luminaries for this vocation. In any case, such monitoring is only meaningful in case of complaints, and even as it stands, recorded content (up to 3 months old) need only be sent to the Centre (in transcribed and translated form, mind you) in such an eventuality. This is not my opinion, I am repeating what I heard at the consultation.

Quality of the CR Policy: "The need to review and extend the transmitter range especially in
hilly terrain. (The current policy does take cognizance of this to the
extent that it indicates that exceptions to the current 100 watt range
can be made depending on the terrain). There is need to also reconsider
the validity of mobile broadcasting especially in the context of
emergencies and disaster situations.
Another constraint is linked to the age of the NGO applicant.
Currently, the policy permits NGOs that have been in existence for
three years to be eligible for licenses. However, in areas vulnerable
to floods and famines, there are credible and community based NGOs that
have come up in the recent past."

Comment: Again, Ashish seems focused on transmitter power (which is, incidentally, irrevocably linked to costs), rather than effective range. Multi-modal broadcasting (combining data and voice in modules) is cheaper and more robust for such situations, and promotes a variety of entrepreneurial talents in addition to the valuable skills involved in content management that typify the traditional CR deployment. Mainstream media provides precious few opportunities for serious comment on community radio, unsurprisingly, and each opportunity ought to be maximised.

Revenue generation: "Sponsored programmes that are relevant to the community and development
or educational could be other sources of revenue generation."

Comment: Actually, sponsored programmes are specifically disallowed on CR. I think we need to focus on total cost of operations and total community earnings rather than looking at blinkered revenue models that derive from 'organised' revenue stream visions. By its very nature, a community is not organised, and any effort to organising it leads to internal politics. Failure to recognise this seminal fact will doom any grassroots community initiative, whether or not encouraged (and these are not) by the government.

Looking ahead: "A core group has been formed to take the (Bihar consultation) endorsement forward."

Well, that is good news. Will this group be aligned directly with the CR Forum?

Vickram
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7. ZURICH (Reuters) - MP3 player guides rescuers to lost tourists
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:57 am ((PST))

MP3 player guides rescuers to lost tourists

ZURICH (Reuters) - The light from an MP3 player saved two lost tourists
from a chilly night stuck out in the snowy Swiss mountains, rescue
authorities said Saturday.

[...]

They were able to alert authorities using a mobile phone, but it then ran
out of battery power, Baumann said.

"The two winter sports enthusiasts were found by the crew of the Rega
helicopter shortly after midnight -- thanks to the faint light of their
MP3 player," he said.

The two men had only mild hypothermia.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081229/tecnology/ctech_us_swiss_rescue


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Sunday 28 December 2008

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2530

There are 2 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1a. Geraldine Harris Adams is out of the office.
From: Geraldine Harris Adams

2. Kiva - We Let You Loan to the Working Poor
From: George Lessard


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1a. Geraldine Harris Adams is out of the office.
Posted by: "Geraldine Harris Adams" adamsg@un.org
Date: Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:02 am ((PST))


I will be out of the office starting 24/12/2008 and will not return until
05/01/2009.

I will respond to your messages at that time.

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2. Kiva - We Let You Loan to the Working Poor
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:02 am ((PST))

We Let You Loan to the Working Poor

http://www.kiva.org/

Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of
alleviating poverty.

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website,
empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the
developing world.

The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals in need of funding
- not marketing material. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on the
site, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you are helping a
real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve
life for themselves, their family, and their community. Throughout the
course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal
updates and track repayments. Then, when you get your loan money back, you
can relend to someone else in need.

Kiva partners with existing expert microfinance institutions. In doing so,
we gain access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities
world-wide. Our partners are experts in choosing qualified entrepreneurs.
That said, they are usually short on funds. Through Kiva, our partners
upload their entrepreneur profiles directly to the site so you can lend to
them. When you do, not only do you get a unique experience connecting to a
specific entrepreneur on the other side of the planet, but our
microfinance partners can do more of what they do, more efficiently.

Kiva provides a data-rich, transparent lending platform. We are constantly
working to make the system more transparent to show how money flows
throughout the entire cycle, and what effect it has on the people and
institutions lending it, borrowing it, and managing it along the way. To
do this, we are using the power of the internet to facilitate one-to-one
connections that were previously prohibitively expensive. Child
sponsorship has always been a high overhead business. Kiva creates a
similar interpersonal connection at much lower costs due to the instant,
inexpensive nature of internet delivery. The individuals featured on our
website are real people who need a loan and are waiting for
socially-minded individuals like you to lend them money.

How Kiva Works

Choose an Entrepreneur, Lend, Get Repaid


1) Lenders like you browse profiles of entrepreneurs in need, and choose
someone to lend to. When they lend, using PayPal or their credit cards,
Kiva collects the funds and then passes them along to one of our
microfinance partners worldwide.

2) Kiva's microfinance partners distribute the loan funds to the selected
entrepreneur. Often, our partners also provide training and other
assistance to maximize the entrepreneur's chances of success.

3) Over time, the entrepreneur repays their loan. Repayment and other
updates are posted on Kiva and emailed to lenders who wish to receive
them.

4) When lenders get their money back, they can re-lend to someone else in
need, donate their funds to Kiva (to cover operational expenses), or
withdraw their funds.

Corporate Partners
http://www.kiva.org/about/supporters/
Institutional Supporters
http://www.kiva.org/about/institutional/


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Saturday 27 December 2008

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2529

There are 3 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. U.S: Vote Now To Make Low Power Radio A Priority For The New Admini
From: George Lessard

2. Afghanistan's media battleground
From: George Lessard

3. A new threat to CBC, Conservative plans to slash a devastating $200
From: George Lessard


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1. U.S: Vote Now To Make Low Power Radio A Priority For The New Admini
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Fri Dec 26, 2008 10:03 am ((PST))

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: [MRN] Vote Now To Make Low Power Radio A Priority For The New
Administration!
From: "pete tridish" <petri@prometheusradio.org>
Date: Thu, December 25, 2008 17:56
To: "Micro Radio List" <microradio@lists.riseup.net>
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Prometheus is going all out to make sure that the new administration
finishes up the unfinished business with LPFM in the early months of
the new government. There are a few awesome mechanisms right now to
get the word out about our support for low power radio in the new
administration and Congress.

Our coalition has met with the transition team for the new FCC and
they have encouraged us to submit ideas through these websites and
make sure supporters make themselves heard as first priorities are
established.

So here is a really good site where you can vote for good ideas like
LPFM, and there will be more to come in the coming days!

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/allow_low_power_radio_stations_in_americas_cities

Vote Now!
pete tridish


pete tridish
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glassware, useful in observing resistant strains in aetherial media.

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2. Afghanistan's media battleground
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Fri Dec 26, 2008 10:55 pm ((PST))

Afghanistan's media battleground

---- by Rahilla Zafar, Kabul ----

[excerpt]

Six years ago television was banned in Afghanistan and its single national
radio station was Taliban-run.

William Reeve was a BBC Afghanistan correspondent for two years in the
early 1990s during the time of the warlords and for two years in 1998-1999
during the Taliban regime.

He remembers the days when the main sources of reliable information for
Afghans, before and during the time of the Taliban, were the daily BBC
broadcasts in Dari and Pashto. In a country that has suffered through
decades of war, reliable news was needed to ensure safety.

"Surveys have shown that when big stories were being played out in
Afghanistan, as many as 70 per cent of the Afghan population would hear
what was happening in their country from BBC broadcasts in their own
languages. Their lives would often depend on this. So they tended to glue
themselves to the evening BBC broadcasts all around the country," Reeve
recalls.

Today the country's independent media are considered to be a major success
story – but like most developments in this war-battered nation it finds
itself increasingly under threat.

While the establishment of an independent media has played a pivotal role
in uniting an ethnically-divided country, the re-emergence of warlords and
a reluctant government puts such gains in jeopardy.

Since 2002, hundreds of media outlets opened with the help of an
international donor community that recognised a free press as a necessary
ingredient of nation-building in a country where 90 per cent of its people
live in rural areas.

"There were so many media trainers here in 2002 that I wondered who was
going to feed the people," says Dominic Medley who served as country
director for Internews in 2002, an organisation that has helped to set up
35 regional radio stations.

And despite a promising start, sustaining independent media stations has
become a challenge in Afghanistan. Obstacles include the rise of
warlord-backed media outlets; a growing lack of security for journalists;
and the reluctance of Afghan officials to embrace an independent media.

With so many actors involved from international military forces, foreign
governments, as well as Afghan political leaders and warlords, the media
have evolved at a fast pace that far exceeds what the actual market size
of 22 million dollars could support.

more at

http://knowledge.insead.edu/Afghanmediabattleground081226.cfm#

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3. A new threat to CBC, Conservative plans to slash a devastating $200
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:56 pm ((PST))

Trouble reading this email? View it online at:
http://www.friends.ca/files/html/FCB-video-08dec26.html

Dear Friend,

FRIENDS has learned from a reliable confidential source of Conservative
plans to slash a devastating $200 million from the CBC's Parliamentary
grant. We have prepared a special video message for you on this potential
new threat to our national public broadcaster.

Click here to view the message now.

Regards,

Ian Morrison

Ian Morrison, Spokesperson
FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting

PS: A $200 million cut to CBC's parliamentary grant would require
amputating a number of broadcasting services on which Canadians depend.
For example, in order to save $200 million it would be necessary to scrap
most local programming on CBC Radio One and CBC Television throughout
Canada, effectively turning CBC into a Toronto Broadcasting Corporation,
as well as killing CBC Radio Two and CBC.ca, along with all their French
language equivalent services.

PPS: If you have a few moments for additional context and background, I
invite you to listen to a recent interview I did on CIUT-FM about the
impact of a $200 million cut to CBC's parliamentary grant.

http://www.friends.ca/fight4radio2

FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting is an independent watchdog for Canadian
programming and is not affiliated with any broadcaster or political party.

Trouble reading this email? View it online at:
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Thursday 25 December 2008

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2528

There is 1 message in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. MENA Fw: Meedan Newsletter
From: tamara aqrabawe


Message
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1. MENA Fw: Meedan Newsletter
Posted by: "tamara aqrabawe" aqrabawe@yahoo.com.au aqrabawe
Date: Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:31 am ((PST))


Winter 2008 Newsletter
Featuring Recent Press Coverage, Update on the Public Launch, Team Updates, The Latest Conversations on Meedan

äÔÑÉ ÃÎÈÇÑ ÔÊÇÁ 2008
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Welcome to the Meedan Newsletter - your chance to come right on in and see the Meedan workshop from the inside. 

Meedan is nonprofit community of Arabic and English speakers. We feature a variety of local and global events, which you can comment on. We translate every comment submitted and any news article or blog post that you submit.

I hope you glean from it something of the energy and enthusiasm that permeates the work of our technologists, designers, translators, and partners every day. With your ongoing feedback and support we can continue to make sound steps towards our ultimate goal of a vibrant online platform for Arabic- and English-language conversation and knowledge exchange on the web.

Season's greetings, Eid Mubarak, Salam, Peace, and Happy New Year from all of us at Meedan. Thanks for reading, we hope to see you online. 


- Ed Bice, Meedan CEO


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Recent Press Coverage   ÂÎÑ ÊÛØíÉ ÕÍÝíÉ 

We were delighted to see Meedan covered in a full-page spread in last week's "Year in Ideas" issue of the New York Times Magazine. You can read the full article online at the NYT website.

(Read it in Arabic here.)
 
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Talk of Meedan -  ÍÏíË ãíÏÇä


Bush, Al-Zaidi and a pair of shoes
 
Voices on the web
 
Zaidi has expressed the pent-up pain and humiliation which Iraqis feel as a result of the violations committed by the occupation forces throughout five years. - Al-Azab Al-Tayyib Al-Tahir, Iraq News Agency

Al-Zaidi may have been beaten for his outburst at George Bush, but Iraqi journalists are entitled to righteous indignation. - Jonathan Steele, The Guardian

The Iraqi journalist should have asked tough or embarrassing questions to US President Bush while he was standing near Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. However, the journalist opted for shoes instead of questions. - Tariq Al-Hamid, Asharq Alawsat
 
Voices on Meedan
 
I think that the journalist wanted to tell Bush how each Iraqi feels, and it was the only way, of course its not the right way but I'm sure that he couldn't find another one. - Hiba, Syria
 
I know that Muntadhar Al Zaidi has become a "folk hero", but for me he's just a very courageous man but not a hero. - Siham, Morocco
 
I think what he did was a symbolic action to express what his people really felt about the unwanted US invasion. - Wesam, Egypt
 
It seems like part of the usual media circus, a pretty ineffective act, even politically, and it doesn't speak very well to the horror that we have created in Iraq. - Andy, USA
 
With somebody like Bush, the shoe throwing is a tickle. Because when Bush wanted to express himself to the Iraqis, he threw rockets and shells. - George, Palestine
 
As we say on the basketball court in my neighborhood: No harm no foul! I think it's a purely symbolic act until the shoe hits the face. - Chris, USA
 
Al Zaidy was not attempting to hurt Bush he was expressing the pain and the situation of losing hope that Bush caused in Iraq. - Fairuz, Syria
 

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Community Update   ÂÎÑ ãÓÊÌÏÇÊ ÇáãÌãÚ

If there's one reason it's been an exciting month to be involved with Meedan, it's because our community and content efforts have really stepped up a gear. 

Working from London, Meedan's Community and Content manager, George Weyman, has been building a distributed team of content producers and translators from across the Middle East and beyond, including Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Dubai, Morocco, Belgium and the United States.  

George has established a system for identifying reports, blogs and opinion pieces to feature on the Meedan beta using Meedan's database of Arabic media sources along with social search tools.  In the past month, George has also brought Asharq Alawsat's Iraqi editor Shadha Al-Jubori onto the team to advise on writing style and implemented a system for managing and tracking professional translator activity on the site.

Outreach continues apace, with specific focus on Meedan's volunteer translation community.  Meedan now has a Meedan translators group on Facebook, with further outreach planned on other social networking sites.  Meedan is also in discussions, through the Thomson Reuters Foundation, with the UNDP- backed Iraqi news agency Aswat al Iraq (Voices of Iraq) to provide translation of features.  There are also discussions afoot to provide volunteer translation for partners' newsletters and reports, including Global Policy Forum and AUC journal Arab Media & Society.

If you'd be interested in volunteering to contribute to the site as a translator or content producer, or if you know of a nonprofit that could benefit from Meedan services in the future, or know of MENA-based journalists and translators who would be interested in getting involved, please contact Gweyman@meedan.net .


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æ ãÚ ÊÑßíÒ ãÍÏÏ Úáì ãÌãæÚÉ ÇáÃÝÑÇÏ ÇáãßæäÉ ãä ãÊÑÌãíä ãÊØæÚíä ááÚãá Ýí ãíÏÇä ÝÅä ãíÏÇä ÊãÊáß ÇáÂä ÝÑíÞÇ ááÊÑÌãÉ Úáì ãæÞÚ ÝÇíÓ Èæß, ãÚ ãÎØØ ÃÈÚÏ áíÔãá ÝíãÇ ÈÚÏ ãæÇÞÚ áÔÈßÇÊ ÇÌÊãÇÚíÉ ÃÎÑì. åäÇáß ãäÇÞÔÇÊ ÍÇáíÉ ÊÏæÑ Èíä ãíÏÇä æ æßÇáÉ ÇáÃäÈÇÁ ÇáÚÑÇÞíÉ ÇáãÏÚæãÉ ãä ÞÈá ÈÑäÇãÌ ÇáÃãã ÇáãÊÍÏÉ ááÅäãÇÁ æÐáß áÊÒæíÏ æÊØæíÑ ÇáãæÞÚ ÈÎÏãÇÊ ÃÎÑì ááÊÑÌãÉ. åÐå ÇáäÞÇÔÇÊ æÇáãÝÇæÖÇÊ ÊÊã ÚÈÑ ãÄÓÓÉ ÊæãÓæä ÑæíÊÑÒ. åäÇß ÃíÖÇ äÞÇÔÇÊ ÌÇÑíÉ ãä ÃÌá ÇáÍÕæá Úáì ãÊØæÚíä áÊÑÌãÉ ÊÞÇÑíÑ æ äÔÑÇÊ ÅÎÈÇÑíÉ ÊÎÕ ÇáÔÑßÇÁ ÈãÇ ÝíåÇ ãäÊÏì ÇáÓíÇÓÉ ÇáÚÇáãíÉ æ ãÌáÉ Ãí íæ Óí
ÇáÅÚáÇã æÇáãÌÊãÚ ÇáÚÑÈí.   
 
ÅÐÇ ßäÊ ÓÊåÊã ÈÇáÊØæÚ ááãÓÇåãÉ Ýí ÇáãæÞÚ ÓæÇÁ ßãÊÑÌã Ãæ ãäÊÌ ááãÍÊæì, Ãæ Åä ßäÊ ÊÚÑÝ Ãí ãä ÇáãäÙãÇÊ  ÇááÇÑÈÍíÉ ÇáÊí ãä Çáããßä Ãä ÊÓÊÝíÏ ãä ÎÏãÇÊ ãíÏÇä Ýí ÇáãÓÊÞÈá, Ãæ Åä ßäÊ ÊÚÑÝ ÃíÖÇ áÕÍÝííä æãÊÑÌãíä ããä íÚíÔæä Ýí ãäØÞÉ ÇáÔÑÞ ÇáÃæÓØ æ ãä Çáããßä Ãä íßæäæÇ ãåÊãíä ÈÃä íßæäæÇ ÌÒÁÇ ãä ãíÏÇä, ÇáÑÌÇÁ ÇáÇÊÕÇá È  Gweyman@meedan.net


Public Launch Update   ÂÎÑ ÇáãÓÊÌÏÇÊ Íæá ÅØáÇÞ ÇáãæÞÚ

Meedan's long-awaited public 'soft' launch is now slated for early 2009 after a month of intensive activity both by Meedan technologists and developers at IBM.

Meedan's UI designer Chris Blow has led the visual effort, product managing the implementation of an enhanced user interface with IBMers Darren Shaw and Juan Allos. Chris's designs bring added user value to the Meedan platform, reinforcing the core user functionality of geo-tagged media sharing and cross-language conversation through a cleaner, simpler UI.

Complementing Chris's vision for a new look Meedan has been the work of CTO Anselm Hook.  Anselm's success in incorporating open layers to the Meedan platform has paved the way for a unique visualization of world events, media and related conversations plotted on a spinning globe.

Meedan's internationally-acclaimed technologist Anas Tawileh has been producing a documentary architecture of all the systems that comprise the Meedan enterprise.  The modular architecture Anas is proposing with hybrid translation at its core will provide Meedan with a firm foundation from which to launch future projects with partners, as well as across the wider web, towards the goal of enhancing interaction across the Arabic-English language divide online.

The team now plans to sprint towards public launch early in 2009. You can help get the Meedan platform on the web by coming on to beta test the site.  For more information contact joinbeta@meedan.net.

Åä ÇáÇäØáÇÞ ÇáÚÇã " ÇááØíÝ" ÇáãäÊÙÑ ãäÐ æÞÊ Øæíá áãíÏÇä ãÊæÞÚ ÇáÂä Ýí ÈÏÇíÉ 2009 ÈÚÏ ÔåÑ ãä ÇáäÔÇØ ÇáãßËÝ Èíä ÊÞäíí æ ãØæÑí ãíÏÇä Ýí ÔÑßÉ Ãí Èí Çã. 
 
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íÎØØ ÇáÝÑíÞ ÇáÂä ááÇäØáÇÞ ÇáÚÇã " ÇááØíÝ " Ýí ÈÏÇíÉ ÚÇã 2009. íãßäß Ãä ÊÓÇÚÏ ÈÇáÍÕæá Úáì æÇÌåÉ ãíÏÇä Úáì ÇáæíÈ ÈÍÖæÑß ááÇÎÊÈÇÑ ÇáÊÌÑíÈí ááãæÞÚ. æ ááãÒíÏ ãä ÇáãÚáæãÇÊ íãßäß ãÑÇÓáÊäÇ ÚÈÑ ÇáÈÑíÏ ÇáÇáßÊÑæäí:
joinbeta@meedan.net


Team News  ÃÎÈÇÑ ÇáÝÑíÞ

Ed Bice, CEO, is making the public launch his only new year's resolution.
Anselm Hook, CTO, is expanding the colo to handle the new translation servers.
Anas Tawileh, VP Engineering, is discovering old haunts across the Middle East.
Chris Blow, UI designer, is drinking too much coffee, again.
Yvonne Burgess, COO, is refreshed and energized after the team retreat.
George Weyman, Community Manager, is reveling in the joys of the Alexa toolbar.
Joseph Jones, Publishing Intern, is looking into a summer intensive at MIIS.

Translators: Mariam and Asma El in Belgium and Morocco, Marwa Al-A'sar in Egypt, Marilyn Chbeir in Lebanon, Boushra Bathish, Fariza Saadeh and Hiba Traifeh in Syria, Marianne Makram in Dubai

Content Producers: Fadi Abu Sada and George Rishmawi in Palestine, Mariam and Asma El in Belgium and Morocco, Richard Cozzens in Syria, Evan Hill, Susan MacDougal, Gregg Carlstrom and Josh Adland in the USA, Magdy Samaan and Mohamed Abdelbaky in Egypt

Steering Committee: Capping an excellent month of progress, Meedan welcomed three new members to the Meedan Steering Committee. Dr Saidam Sabri, Dr. Osama El Ansari, and Dr. Muna Abu Sulayman join MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan Fanton and IBM Foundation President Stanley Litow on this committee.

Dr Saidam Sabri became the minister of telecoms and IT for the Palestinian Authority in 2005 serving in the ninth Palestinian cabinet, liberalizing the telecom market and launching the Electronic Palestine Initiative. In May 2006, he established the first innovation group in Palestine under the umbrella of Birzeit University known as the Birzeit Innovation Group (BIG). He also founded the Palestinian e-Republic and co-founded the Palestinian Society for Re-cycling and Environmental Development.

Dr Osama El Ansari is  the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Network of Syrian Scientists, Technologists and Innovators Abroad (NOSSTIA). He was formerly a member of the Board of the Association of International Bond Dealers, Vice Chairman of the International Securities Market Association and an advisor to the Muscat Stock Exchange. He is also Professor of Finance at the Higher Institute of Business Administration in Damascus, an EU-funded project

Muna Abu Sulayman serves as Executive Director of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, the philanthropic arm of HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal's Kingdom Holding Company. As a co-host of one of MBC TV's most popular social programs, Kalam Nawaem, she is a prominent media personality in the Middle East and abroad. In 2005, she became the first woman in Saudi Arabia to be appointed by the United Nations Development Program as a Goodwill Ambassador.


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Funding and Partnerships

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Meedan funding continues to explore multiple avenues for funding.  Having secured a significant grant for general project support from MacArthur Foundation in August,  Meedan has made a number of proposals to Middle East foundations that promote valuable work in the fields of global dialogue, reconciliation and technology. The Doris Duke Foundation and IBM Foundation are both continuing their generous support for Meedan in 2009, with IBM agreeing to provide access to translation software for Meedan through 2012.    

Discussions are also ongoing with the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme and Co-exist Foundation to employ Meedan translation tools to the task of translating theological texts from Christianity, Islam and Judaism onto the web. Finally, there are conversations slated with the BBC World Service Trust to open up Meedan's social networking tools to younger Arabic speakers on the web.

If you know of funders who might be interested in supporting Meedan's efforts, or if you yourself would like to donate to a specific component of the project (translation, partner programs, mobile applications such as the iPhone) or the project in general, please contact operations@meedan.net.

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áÇ ÊÒÇá ÇáäÞÇÔÇÊ ÌÇÑíÉ ãÚ ÈÑäÇãÌ ßÇãÈÑÏÌ ÇäÊÑ ÝÇíË æãÄÓÓÉ ßæ-ÇßÒÊ ãä ÃÌá ÊæÙíÝ ÃÏæÇÊ ãíÏÇä Ýí ÊÑÌãÉ ÇáäÕæÕ ÇááÇåæÊíÉ ãä ÇáãÓíÍíÉ, ÇáÅÓáÇãíÉ æ ÇáíåæÏíÉ Úáì  ÇáæíÈ. æ Ýí ÇáäåÇíÉ,  åäÇß ãÍÇÏËÇÊ ÞæÈáÊ ÈËÞÉ åíÆÉ ÇáÅÐÇÚÉ ÇáÈÑíØÇäíÉ ÇáÚÇáãíÉ - Èí Èí Óí -  ãä ÃÌá ÝÊÍ ÃÏæÇÊ ÑÈØ ÔÈßÇÊ ãíÏÇä ÇáÇÌÊãÇÚíÉ ááãÊÍÏËíä ÇáÕÛÇÑ ÈÇááÛÉ ÇáÚÑÈíÉ Úáì ÇáæíÈ.

ÅÐÇ ßäÊ ÊÚÑÝ ããæáíä ãä Çáããßä Ãä íåÊãæÇ ÈÏÚã ÌåæÏ ãíÏÇä, Ãæ ÅÐÇ ßäÊ ÊÑíÏ ÃäÊ Ãä ÊÊÈÑÚ ÈÔíÁ ãÚíä ááãÔÑæÚ (ãËáÇ: ÊÑÌãÉ, ÈÑÇãÌ ãÔÇÑßÉ, Ãí Ýæä ) Ãæ ááãÔÑæÚ ÈÔßá ÚÇã, íÑÌì ÇáÇÊÕÇá È  operations@meedan.net


 
              


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