Wednesday 30 November 2011

[creative-radio] Over Baghdad (Maktoob) | Sundus Abdul Hadi & Stefan Christoff.

 


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* Over Baghdad (Maktoob)
http://howlarts.net/post/13190341140/over-baghdad-maktoob

Howl! arts collective presents a collaboration between artist Sundus Abdul Hadi
and musician Stefan Christoff for 'Over Baghdad (Maktoob)', part of the Flight
Series'.

This collaboration builds on past musical / visual collaborations between the
artists, view 'Uprising' released by Art Threat earlier this year, a piece
honoring the uprising in Egypt, also Christoff contributed piano to Abdul
Hadi's multimedia series WARCHESTRA for the piece 'Keys of Return'.

For this most recent collaboration you can hear an open piano track, music to
accompany the open skies of struggle and dreams illustrated in the 'Flight
Series' exhibition.

Please post / share this link widely and download the music via the soundcloud
icon above, thanks for tuning-in. For all in Montreal Sundus Abdul Hadi will be
a featured artist at the upcoming exhibition, Arab Winter opening to the public
in the form of a multimedia art installation on December 2nd, 2011, at the
Under Pressure Fresh Paint Gallery in Montreal.

* info on 'Arab Winter' exhibition: http://thearabwinter.tumblr.com/

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Tuesday 29 November 2011

[creative-radio] UK: Ofcom publishes Community Radio Report 2010-11

 

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Source:
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/radio/community/annual-reports/10-11/

Full report at:
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/broadcast/radio-ops/CR-AR-10-11.pdf

*Executive summary*

1.1 Community radio stations are not-for-profit radio services designed
to operate on a small scale and to deliver community benefits, known as
'social gain'. The legislation enabling community radio services to be
licensed was introduced in 2004 and amended in January 2010. The first
community radio station launched in November 2005. This is Ofcom's
fourth annual report on the community radio sector.

1.2 Ofcom has to date licensed 231 stations over three rounds of
licensing. 196 of these are broadcasting and a further 23 have either
decided not to launch or have handed their licence back, largely due to
funding problems. The remainder are preparing to start broadcasting. The
second round of licensing concluded in August 2010 and a third round of
community radio licensing commenced in April 2011.

1.3 Community radio serves a diverse range of communities. The majority
of stations serve a general audience in either an urban/suburban area
(16%) or a town/rural area (43%). Many services, however, serve smaller
communities of interest. This includes, for example, those aimed at
minority ethnic groups (13%), a youth audience (11%) and those with a
religious focus (6%). Of the licences awarded, 187 are in England, 14 in
Northern Ireland, 20 in Scotland and 10 in Wales.

1.4 The legislation governing community radio sets out the
characteristics of community radio services and defines social gain.
Each station has a set of 'key commitments', which forms part of its
licence and sets out how it will meet these characteristics and deliver
social gain. The key commitments includes how a station will make itself
accountable to its target community and ensure access, its programming
aims and its commitments with regard to training and other social gain
objectives.

1.5 The legislation also requires that Ofcom sets licence conditions
limiting the amount of income that individual stations can generate from
on-air advertising and sponsorship. For the majority of stations this
limit is 50%. However, two stations have lower limits (25% and 10%) and
a further 18 stations cannot take income from on-air advertising and
sponsorship at all. These additional restrictions have been put in place
to protect existing small commercial services whose coverage areas
overlap with the community services.

1.6 Each station that has been broadcasting for more than a year is
required to complete an annual report. The reports detail how each
station has performed against its key commitments and identifies its
sources of income and expenditure. The financial aspect of the reporting
enables Ofcom to check whether the station has stayed within the
legislative restrictions on funding.

1.7 For the period April 2010 to March 2011 Ofcom received key
commitments annual reports from 163 stations and financial annual
reports from 161 stations. One station was excused from providing a
financial report and one station did not provide its financial report in
time to be included in this report. Another station did not submit
either its key commitments or financial reports.

1.8 Annual reports were not required from stations that launched during
this period or subsequently and are therefore not included in this report.

1.9 In 2010/11 the average (mean) station's income was around £63,000.
The median figure, the mid-point in the distribution of stations'
income, was considerably lower at £42,000. This is because a small
number of stations are earning significantly more than the majority.

1.10 The total reported income of the four highest earning stations,
each reporting over £250,000 income for the relevant period and earning
a total of just over £1.5m, equates roughly to the total income of the
74 lowest income stations. If we exclude the four highest earning
stations' income then the average income drops to £54,500. The median
figure remains relatively similar at £41,000.

1.11 Stations targeting a community of interest (rather than a
geographic community) reported a higher income than the sector average.
Stations serving a general audience in an urban area reported a higher
average income than town/rural stations (£89,500 as opposed to £45,000).

1.12 The average (mean) sector income is down by around 19% on the
previous year's reported figure. In the 2009/10 period income had
dropped by around 6% compared to the period prior to this. The median
income for the current reporting period has dropped by 7% compared to
the 2009/10 period.

1.13 Trend analysis undertaken on the stations which have reported in
each of the last two years (i.e. 2009/10 and 2010/11) indicates that the
average (mean) income for these stations has dropped by only 0.05%
(£70,500 in 2010/11 compared to £74,500 in 2009/10 for the same group of
stations). This may indicate that the financial situation for those
stations that have submitted annual reports for the last two financial
periods has remained relatively stable.

1.14 When compared to previous years, the proportion of income from
specified sources appears relatively similar. The most significant type
of income for the sector is grant funding, which accounts for 37% of the
total. Income from on-air advertising or sponsorship accounted for
around 21% of total income across the sector. 23% of stations submitting
financial returns did not take income from advertising and sponsorship
in this reporting period. Of these 37 stations, 25 chose not to take
this type of income as a matter of choice or policy. The remaining 12
stations were prohibited under their licence from doing so.

1.15 Public sources of funding accounted for 25% of the total sector
income. Local authorities accounted for around 13% of the sector's total
income. 8% of income came from other public bodies such as the Arts
Council, health providers, educational establishments and various
national lottery award schemes.

1.16 The Community Radio Fund, which is administered by Ofcom on behalf
of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, accounted for £321,500
(around 3% of the sector's total reported income). The Community Radio
Fund continues to be the largest single source of income for the sector.

1.17 Community radio stations, on average, are spending slightly more
than their income. Stations cost, on average, around £64,500 to run.
This has declined by 13% compared to the previous reporting period. The
median expenditure for this reporting period has dropped to £40,000
compared to £52,000 the 2009/10 period.

1.18 Trend analysis undertaken on the stations which have reported in
each of the last two years (i.e. 2009/10 and 2010/11) indicates that the
average (mean) expenditure for these stations has dropped by only 0.03%
(£72,000 in 2010/11 compared to £74,500 in 2009/10 for the same group of
stations). This analysis gives some insight into how those stations
reporting for two full financial periods have fared year-on-year.

1.19 The highest cost for community radio stations remains staff
expenditure, which accounted for around 50% of stations' costs. Premises
and technical costs, as in previous years, accounted for the next most
significant outlay.

1.20 Around 44% of stations that returned a financial annual report were
in deficit. Of these 71 stations in deficit, 24% (39 stations) reported
this to be in excess of £10,000 (the highest was £90,000). At the other
end of the scale, one station had a surplus of £75,000. In most cases,
large deficits are being funded by parent organisations; any surpluses
are typically invested in the operation of the service.

1.21 Community radio stations broadcast live for around 82 hours per
week on average, and, in general, broadcast a further 12 hours per week
of original pre-recorded material. On average around 32% of daytime
output is speech which can feature a wide range of local organisations
and community initiatives.

1.22 Some stations focus on particular genres of music, while those
serving a geographic audience generally broadcast more mainstream music
during daytime programming, moving to specialist output in the evening.

1.23 The average station reports the involvement of around 78 volunteers
annually, although there is a wide variation. Together these volunteers
give on average of around 295 hours a week of their time in total. Time
given by volunteers can vary considerably from an hour or two to over
1,000 hours per week.

1.24 At a cost of just over £10 million pounds, based on the reports
received from stations in this reporting period, community radio in the
UK delivered:
A total of more than 12,500 volunteering opportunities
Over 45,000 volunteer hours each week
Over 15,000 hours of original radio output each week
Output broadcast in a wide range of community languages

1.25 There are now over 190 stations broadcasting and Ofcom estimates
that volunteers contribute close to 250,000 hours a month to community
radio.

1.26 Given that the community radio sector is now relatively mature,
Ofcom does not intend to publish an annual report of this type for
2011/12. However, all relevant stations will still be required to submit
an annual report as part of their demonstration of compliance with
licence and other statutory requirements.

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Sunday 27 November 2011

[creative-radio] Nigerian Embassy deportation hearing in Köln – Less than 10 refugees participated

 


Nigerian Embassy deportation hearing in Köln – Less than 10 refugees
participated

About 20 Activists assembled on Tuesday 22.11.11 at 8am to protest the
Nigerian Embassy deportation hearing taking place at the Central
Foreigners Office, Am Blaubach 13, Köln.

The Central Foreigners Office (Z.A.B) Köln is one amongst notable
institutions that facilitate the traumatisation of refugees through abuses
in the likes of country embassy identification of the Victims for
deportation.

This protest is in line with "The VOICE Refugee Forum" commitment to
expose the deportations and the corrupt collaboration of refugee countries
with the German deportation authorities where the Nigerian embassy is
playing the leading role.

With active support from Activists of "Autonomy Zentrum" and other persons
and groups in Köln, an intention to begin with a community breakfast was
interrupted as the Police in suspicion approached the gathering to
question our agenda.
The police tried their usual threat of penalty and telephone parade but
the Activists expressed their determination of of no fear as they
themselves were informed of the legal basis of such actions.

In a bid to avoid unnecessary distraction as the Police would like it, the
activists unanimously agreed on a spontaneous registration but the
responsible Officials still went further to petition the availability of
Banner at the Venue.

Amongst 22 refugees invited for that day, less than 10 refugees within
Bayern and Rheinland Pfalz appeared for the exercise.

Participating refugees were informed on the basis of the invitation to the
hearing and advised on possibilities to save themselves from deportation.

We hereby call on Refugees and Activists to support the planned protest
action at the Nigerian Embassy premises for its leading role in country
embassy deportation collaboration.

The Nigerian Embassy is known for its monthly mobile deportation hearing
in different German Cities and we are committed to protest their presence
at any possible hearing.

The preparatory meeting for the Berlin Action is expected to take place in
Stuttgart on a date that is yet to be decided.

Refugee support groups should endeavour to mobilise refugees in their
region for this action as the fight against one deportation affects all.

The Colonial Collaboration of the Nigerian Embassy with the German State!
http://thevoiceforum.org/search/node/nigeria+deportation+embassy

The Voice Baden Württemberg
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70199 Heslach-Stuttgart
Tel.: 017627873832
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Tuesday 22 November 2011

[creative-radio] Buy Nothing Day, 11/25/2011, 12:00 am



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Time:   All Day
Repeats:   This event repeats every year.
Notes:   For 24 hours on Buy Nothing Day, November 25, we remember that no one was born to shop,
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and the rest that enough is enough? Why not run with some ideas dreamt
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Saturday 19 November 2011

[creative-radio] Community Radios: For a Citizen Information », International Meeting from 5 to 8 December, Marrakech

 

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From: Secretariat AMARC <secretariat@si.amarc.org>
Date: 18 November 2011 09:39
Subject: [Asiapacific-general] « Community Radios: For a Citizen
Information », International Meeting from 5 to 8 December, Marrakech
To: Marcelo Solervicens <secretariat@si.amarc.org>

*With apologies for any cross posting*

PRESS RELEASE****** **

*International Meeting*

*« Community Radios: For a Citizen Information »*

*5, 6, 7 and 8 December, Marrakech*

The civil society Portal Maghreb‐Machrek *e-joussour*, a Forum des
Alternatives Maroc (*FMAS) *program*,* organizes in collaboration with the
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (*AMARC)* and the support
of International Media Support *(IMS)*, the International meeting *«
Community Radios: For a Citizen Information *» on* *5, 6, 7 and 8 December,
in Marrakech.****

This meeting is in line with the project "Community media, for a citizen
information", initiated by** e-joussour/FMAS and co-sponsored by the
European Union. **
****

The objective of these four days of seminar, supervised by international
experts, is double: ****

- On one side, to establish an advocacy strategy in the light of the
precisions that will bring the international experts;****
- On the other side, to provide a technical support for the setting up,
the management and the animation of the community radios by Moroccan civil
society actors. ****** **

Also, it will be the occasion to: ****

- Present the synthesis of the six regional meetings of « Dialogue for
the setting up of community media in Morocco » that was organized to the
benefice of the civil society in all regions of Morocco; ****
- Present the result of the study « Diagnostic of the legislative
framework regulating the Moroccan media landscape », the memorandum, the
bill and the specifications booklet model for the setting up of community
radios, realized by the international expert Said Essoulami ;****
- Expose the concept of webradio « Joussour » which intends to be
participative, the mouthpiece of the Moroccan civil society, and that will
support the advocacy campaign. ****** **

The closing of this meeting will be the occasion of the official launching
of « Joussour » webradio, the diffusion of the study as well as the
launching of the advocacy campaign for the adoption of a legislative
framework insuring the existence of community radios in Morocco.

****

*For more information : *****

Imane Bounjara // Project Officer ****

06 62 06 97 09 // mediacommunautaire@e-joussour.net****

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Thursday 17 November 2011

[creative-radio] Buy Nothing Day, 11/25/2011, 12:00 am



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Title:   Buy Nothing Day
 
Date:   Friday November 25, 2011
Time:   All Day
Repeats:   This event repeats every year.
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and the rest that enough is enough? Why not run with some ideas dreamt
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Wednesday 16 November 2011

[creative-radio] CMFE 2011 Conference: follow the event online

 

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Dear All,
the 1st CMFE Conference and General Assembly will take place in Nicosia
from today and until 19 November, marking the first major event
organized directly by CMFE with the the support of the 'Europe for
Citizens' programme, co-organised and hosted by the Cyprus Community
Media Centre (CCMC), with the organizational support of the World
Association of Community Radio broadcasters (AMARC) and International
Media Support (IMS) for the /Community Media and the Arab Spring panel.

/The event is now glad to welcome new supporters for the initiative:
apart from European Union under the 'Europe for Citizens Programme
2011', European Commission Representation in Cyprus and the United
Nations Development Programme, Action for Cooperation and Trust in
Cyprus (UNDP-ACT), we have the pleasure to add the Goethe Institute in
Nicosia, Cyprus, the World Association of Community Radio broadcasters
(AMARC) and International Media Support (IMS) who will respectively
provide another venue for the conference in the Buffer zone and
financial support for the /Community Media and the Arab Spring panel./

It has been a year of tremendous growth for CMFE, that now counts a
total of *90* members from *23 *European countries: *39* Individual
Members and *51* Organizational Members, of which *25* are (National)
Federations. Among its affiliate members it counts also individuals and
organisations from Africa, Asia and North America.

The Nicosia conference will be one of the key community media events of
this year in Europe, expected to bring together over *100 *conference
participants from all over Europe and include members from North America
and a special plenary on Community Media and Arab Spring, organized by
World Association of Community Radio broadcasters (AMARC) in
collaboration with CMFE, and support of IMS and the Europe for Citizens
Programme (EACEA) that will bring together key activists from the Middle
East and North Africa.

Five plenary session will include *24* contributions, where parallel
sessions and workshops are expected to deliver a further *43*
contributions. Representatives from the media regulatory authorities
from Albania, the Czech Republic, Cyprus and United Kingdom will be
participating to the conference, as well as key representatives from
civil society in Cyprus, UNDP, UNAMA, AMARC Europe and AMARC International.

In this occasion CMFE will be convening its 2011 ordinary General
Assembly on *17 November 2011 *at *10.00am* at the Home for Cooperation
Conference Room, Home for Cooperation, located at the Ledra Palace
Grounds in the UN Buffer Zone of Nicosia, Cyprus.

*Updated documents*

**> Abstracts book */*(pdf, 920 kb)*/
<http://www.cmfe.eu/images/events/2011/cmfe-conference/abstracts-16_nov_2011.pdf>*

**

**> Conference Programme /(pdf, 320 kb)/*
<http://www.cmfe.eu/images/events/2011/cmfe-conference/programme-16_nov_2011.pdf>*

*
Live from the conference
*For those not able to attend the conference, we are glad to inform that
the plenary sessions will be streamed live.

> Live streaming of plenary sessions <http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cmfe>

> Conference blog <http://cypruscommunitymediacentre.wordpress.com/>

> Live conference updates <http://cmfe2011.posterous.com/>

It will be also possible to comment on Facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/cmfe.eu> and Twitter
<http://twitter.com/#%21/cmfe_eu>, where live updates will be posted.

Looking forward to hear from you, especially if you were not able to
come this year.

Best Regards,

Salvatore Scifo
on behalf of the 2011 CMFE Conference Committee

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[creative-radio] IF COMMUNITY MEDIA IS THE ANSWER, WHAT IS THE QUESTION?

International Community Media Conference - University of Ibadan, Nigeria -

IF COMMUNITY MEDIA IS THE ANSWER, WHAT IS THE QUESTION?

The Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, >
Nigeria; the Institute for Media and Society (IMS), Lagos, Nigeria; the
African Languages Technology Initiative (ALT-I), Ibadan, Nigeria; and the
Nigerian Community Radio Coalition jointly invite you to an international
conference to commemorate the 75th Birthday Anniversary of Prof Alfred
Opubor, first Nigerian professor of Mass Communication.

THEME: IF COMMUNITY MEDIA IS THE ANSWER, WHAT IS THE QUESTION?² Those were
the words of the first Nigerian Professor of Mass Communication,

Professor Alfred Opubor, and the title of one of his most discussed
articles Though that question was raised in 2000 in a book published by
UNESCO, the issues that gave rise to it are still as urgent and improperly
understood as they were then. The recent political events in the MENA
(Middle East and North Africa) region, the recent historic
civilian-to-civilian transition in Zambia, the seemingly unending failure
of the big media to significantly bring about participation and access; the
recourse to neoliberal policies by African Œdemocracies¹ and the impact of
that on the big media; are some of the issues that necessitate a thorough
re-examination of that decade-old witticism. If community media is the
answer, what indeed is the question? And how is it being answered? Are
there more questions than there were? What are they?

SUB-THEMES: Paper abstracts and proposals for project demonstrations are
welcome on the following subthemes:

> · Community Media and new media technologies
> · Community media, policy and regulation
> · Community media, social media and social protest
> · Community media and empowerment/development: actual stories and
potentials
> · Community media and the management of conflict
> · Community media, community/civic engagement and democracy
> · Research approaches in (and to) community media
> · Community media and gender
> · Community media and popular culture
> · Community media and diasporas

DATE: 27-29 March, 2012

> VENUE: Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

> TIMELINES:

> Deadline for submission of abstracts = Nov 30, 2011

> Notification of writers of successful abstracts = Dec 20, 2011

> Deadline for submission of full paper = Feb 20, 2012

FEES: heavily subsidised to cover conference materials, lunches and teas.

Academics: N5,000

International participants: $50

Graduate Students: N1,500

Undergraduate Students: Free

Abstracts or proposals for project demonstration should not exceed 300
words. Abstracts should be sent to both: opuborconference@yahoo.com and

comlangarts@gmail.com

For more information on venues, hotel accommodation, presenters and lead
speakers, timetables etc, visit: http://alfredopubor.org

You can access the book in which Prof Opubor¹s Chapter (If community media
is the answer...) was published here:
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/publications/community_media/index.html

Ayobami Ojebode, Ph.D

Chairman, Local Organising Committee.

International Institute for ICT Journalism

www.penplusbytes.org

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[MSS in Government & Politics, Legislative Development Fellow- USA]

Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication
[NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council]

Lifetime Member : Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC)
Member : American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
Member : Bangladesh Amateur Radio League (BRAL)
Member : World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
(AMARC)
Member : Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
Member : Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education

House : 13/1, Road: 2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 Bangladesh
Phone : 88-02-9130750, +88-02-9138501, Cell: +88 01711881647
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[creative-radio] Radio job opening here in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nan Rubin <nanrubin@aol.com>
Date: 13 November 2011 10:58
Subject: [Stubblefield] job opening here in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
To: WBAIProducers@yahoogroups.com, grc@peak.org,
stubblefield@prometheusradio.org

Hello,

I'm back with another job opening here in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

I work with a USAID implementing partner on an agricultural stabilization
project in southern Afghanistan. We are in negotiations with the U.S.
military to transfer ownership of an army-run FM radio station to the
Afghan government, specifically the Directorate of Agriculture, Irrigation
and Livestock (DAIL). I'm looking for someone who can come over for 4-6
months and help us transfer assets from the army to DAIL, train Afghan
staff, come up with a preliminary Pashto program schedule and get this
thing back up and running. In addition, the army is handing over a number
of radios in a box (RIABs) and we want to put these out in district DAIL
offices and train these guys as well.

I will soon be posting the formal Scope of Work, but that's it in a
nutshell. You would live in a secure compound in downtown Kandahar, with
some travel to military bases as needed. Looking for someone with
experience commensurate to the task, especially those who've done this sort
of thing abroad. Pay based on experience, with plenty of premiums given
the kinetic environment.

Now let me be frank in saying that Kandahar has gotten very frisky of
late. Coordinated attacks are becoming more frequent and more violent.
Our compound was hit by a suicide bomber just last week. No one was hurt,
thanks to the ineptness of the attackers. But be advised that the job
carries inherent risks.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/285466/suicide-bombers-hit-us-charity-in-kandahar/

So if you have the experience and are not deterred by the above, do send me
your CV. This position will be filled around the first of the year.

All best,
Will Everett
Communications Manager
International Relief and Development
Kandahar, Afghanistan
weverett@irdglobal.org

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