[creative-radio] UNESCO-IPDC Prize for Rural Communication to Nepal and Kenya initiatives

 

Source:
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/intergovernmental-programmes/ipdc/about-ipdc/intergovernmental-council/28th-session-of-ipdc-council/unesco-ipdc-prize-for-rural-communication/

The Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists and the Kenyan Arid Lands
Information Network are the co-winners of the 2012 edition of the
UNESCO-IPDC Prize for Rural Communication, which recognizes meritorious
and innovative efforts to improve communication for rural communities in
developing countries.

The two laureates will share the US$ 20,000 Prize, which recognizes
meritorious and innovative effort to improve communication for rural
communities in developing countries. It is awarded every two years
following a recommendation to the UNESCO Director-General by the IPDC
Bureau, which acts as jury for the Prize.

*The Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ)
*NEFEJ is an NGO established in 1986 for the promotion of environmental
journalism in Nepal. Throughout its 25-year long journey, NEFEJ has been
actively engaged in raising public awareness about sustainable
development through the use of various forms of media, in particular
community radio. In 1997 NEFEJ created the first community radio in
Nepal, Radio Sagarmatha, marking a breakthrough in NEFEJ's struggle to
promote community radio in the country. Its efforts included providing
assistance to other community radio stations which were later
established in the country. With this aim, it launched the Community
Radio Support Centre (CRSC).

> Read interview with Raghu Mainali, Director of NEFEJ
at
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/IPDC/Interview%20NEFEJ.pdf
or
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/kathmandu/about-this-office/single-view/news/unesco_ipdc_prize_for_rural_communication_to_nepal/

> NEFEJ website: http://www.nefej.org/

*The Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN)
*ALIN is an NGO with a mission to improve the livelihoods of arid lands
communities in East Africa by facilitating access to information and
knowledge exchange between communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
This is done through community-based Maarifa centres (knowledge
community centres) via a range of channels that include: Web portals,
mobile phone platforms, workshops, exchange visits and regular
publications. Its activities focus on small-scale sustainable
agriculture, climate change adaptation, natural resource management and
other community livelihood issues.

> Read interview with James Nguo, Regional Director of ALIN:
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/IPDC/Interview%20ALIN.pdf
> ALIN website: http://www.alin.or.ke/

Audio interview with James Nguo from ALIN in mp3 at:
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/audio/interview_james_nguo_ALIN_shortversion.mp3

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[creative-radio] HOW TO BE A CITIZEN JOURNALIST Protester and documentarian has all the details

http://www.capilanocourier.com/2012/03/how-to-be-citizen-journalist-protester.html
[excerpt]

TORONTO (CUP) – Derek Soberal stands along a police barrier with a crowd in
Nathan Phillips Square as a part of a January protest against Toronto
budget cuts. Holding a small camera, he films the scene as tension grows
between the protesters and police.

The situation erupts as a protester attempts to break through the line. In
the ensuing chaos, a police officer knocks Soberal's camera down and
punches him in the face before stomping on the camera. However, when
Soberal crosses the police barrier in an attempt to retrieve his camera, he
is arrested and charged with unlawful assembly, mischief, and two counts of
obstructing a police officer.

A photo in the Toronto Sun shows Soberal in handcuffs, bruised and bloody.
He quotes Martin Luther King, Jr. in rationalizing why he went over the
police barrier to retrieve his camera, containing potential evidence of the
alleged assault: "I submit that an individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of
imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its
injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

BABY STEPS

Soberal has gone from being unable to recite his phone number without
stuttering to being a prominent voice of the Toronto protest scene,
featured on the CBC's Lang and O'Leary Exchange and credited in a G20
edition of The Fifth Estate. He also created an activist-based YouTube
channel, TheSecretStore, with over 5,000 subscribers and 3.5 million upload
views, as well as the 35,000-member Occupy Canada Facebook page.

But January's budget protest was not Soberal's first run-in with Toronto
police. His life as an activist and citizen journalist started with the
2010 G20 protests and Ryerson's now-defunct CKLN radio station's Word of
Mouth Wednesday program.

"Basically, I got involved because of the G20 summit," says Soberal. "That
was my first protest … and I exercised my rights at that time. I got
invited onto the show by [host] Daniel Libby to talk about the experience."

He would become a regular on Libby's show, eventually earning the title of
CKLN programmer.

"Derek is attracted to media attention," says Libby. "He's not afraid to
talk to reporters when they're around."

His ability to speak on the radio and communicate with the media is a
hard-earned skill – from the time he was a toddler until his teens, Soberal
underwent speech therapy. Today, he speaks with near-perfect clarity,
pausing occasionally if his stutter starts to creep back in.

He says this ability to speak publicly is inspired by Libby: "[Libby] was
confident on the radio, and my voice was cracking the first time," Soberal
says. "I learned from him."
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