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Monday, 29 June 2009

[creative-radio] AMARC in Beijing "...community media in China is not a far-fetched idea..."

AMARC Informal Mission to China.

From June 15-20, AMARC held an informal mission to China. The delegation
was composed by Steve Buckely, President of AMARC, Mavic Cabrera-Balleza,
Representative of the Women International Network (AMARC WIN) and the
AMARC Vicepresident for Asia pacifc, Ashish Sen. They set-up a blog with
their comments and observations.
Please visit :
http://asiapacific.amarc.org/blog/

AMARC in Beijing

"...Ancient China's libertarian philosopher, Lao Tzu, once said: "a good
traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving". In that
spirit, three members of AMARC's International Board – Steve Buckley,
Mavic Cabrera Balleza and Ashish Sen – pitched up in Beijing this week,
with a few friendly contacts and more than a few burning questions.

AMARC has no members in China. Broadcasting operates under strict
state-party control and the Internet is famously guarded by the "Great
Firewall" of blocks, filters and content monitors designed to remove
material considered dangerous or subversive. At the same time
communications in China is changing at a hectic pace, with economic
liberalization, growth of the Internet and mobile phone, and increasing
confidence of Chinese voices.

What prospects then for community broadcasting in China? What might
community radio look like with Chinese characteristics? Who in China
needs, demands or might benefit from community media? And who might
champion its development in the future?

We set out to understand the context and trends in China for media
development, to dialogue with media practitioners, communication scholars
and experts, and to identify the prospects and opportunities for deepening
AMARC engagement with China.

This is our Beijing Blog...."

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Sunday, 28 June 2009

[creative-radio] Nepal: First agriculture radio to be launched in Dhading

First agriculture radio to be launched in Dhading
Republica - Kathmandu,Nepal

DHADING, June 15: The country´s first agriculture radio station is going
to be launched in Dhunibeshi of Dhading district soon.

According to Dhunibeshi Community Agricultural Communication Center, the
promoter of Agriculture Radio 105 MHz, preparations are underway to begin
test transmission by mid-July.

Training on basic journalism was also held here to produce the required
human resources for the community radio.

Published on 2009-06-15 20:26:17

<http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=6356>

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[creative-radio] Bangkok: COMMUNITY RADIO broadcasters register in droves

COMMUNITY RADIO
Local broadcasters register in droves

Plans to prosecute unregistered stations
By: KOMSAN TORTERMVASANA
Published: 16/06/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Business

More than 1,000 community radio broadcasters registered to operate in an
hour at the Impact Muang Thong Thani exhibition hall yesterday, when the
National Telecommunications Commission opened its registry for the first
time.

<http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/telecom/18559/local-broadcasters-register-in-droves>

It is expected that a thousand more community broadcasters will have
registered when the commission's deadline ends in a month.

NTC's chairman of the working panel on community radio, Col Natee
Sukolrat, said more than 2,000 community radio operators attended
yesterday's briefing on community radio regulations and licensing.

The NTC is to hold similar briefings in Chiang Mai on June 22, Khon Kaen
on June 29 and Songkhla on July 2.

The NTC requires broadcasters register to legalise their operations.

Once registered, they would be allowed to hold trial broadcasts for 300
days when the community radio station regulation becomes effective early
next month. The local stations can sell advertising during those initial
300 days.

However, he warned that any community radio stations failing to register
by the deadline could face legal action for illegal broadcasting.

To maintain a licence, broadcasters must comply with community radio
regulations and be non-profit and without advertisements.

Col Natee said he expected the existing 5,000 community radio stations
operating without a licence would dwindle to only a handful for public
service and business purposes.

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[creative-radio] Radio Programme - Building Bridges: UN Global Economic Crisis Conference

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Subject: [radio] Building Bridges: UN Global Economic Crisis Conference
From: "Ken Nash" <knash@igc.org>
Date: Sun, June 28, 2009 08:58
To: "ken nash" <knash@igc.org>
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Peoples' Voices on the International Economic CrisisBuilding Bridges: Your
Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Peoples' Voices on the International Economic Crisis

. Jana Silverman, Coordinator of Campaigns of Social Watch, an
NGO network monitoring poverty eradication & gender equality
(headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay)
. Gemma Adaba, Representative, UN, International Trade
Union Confederation (ITUC), New York
. Milena Kadieva, Legal Advisor & Project Coordinator, Bulgarian
Gender Research Foundation, Plavdiv, Bulgaria
. Beverly Keene, Latin American Coordinator, Jubilee South
Network, Buenos Aires, Argentina
. Leo Atakpu, Deputy Director, African Network on Economic
and Environmental Justice (based in Benin City, Nigeria)

Responses to the current global economic crisis have been inadequate
and fail to fully address the myriad of related global crises, such as food
security and climate change. An international coalition of 'working'
people directly impacted by these crises, and civil society organizations,
met in a public forum Saturday to deliver this message to world leaders
in advance of this week's UN Conference on the economic crisis being
organized by Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, the current President of the
UN General Assembly (and a Sandinista liberation theology priest)
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To Download or listen to this 28 minute program,
which is listed on Pacifica's Audioport - Menu Option
"Weekly Program Section" dated Saturday, June 27, 2009,
Pacifica Stations only go to
http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=26801&nav=&

all others go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/34155
or
http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesUnGlobalEconomicCrisisConference

for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org

Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI,
99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from
7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at
www.wbai.org .
Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over:

WGOT - Gainesville, Florida.
WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.
WWUH, - West Hartford, CT
WVJW- Benwood, WV
KRFP, Moscow, ID
KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
WXOJ, Northampton, MA
KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
WKNH ,Keene, NH
CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado
WRPI, Troy, New York
WNRB, Wausau, WI
KRBS, Oroville, CA
WHLD, Buffalo, NY
Free Radio Olympia, Olympia,WA
KQRP Salida, California
East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA
KSKQ, Ashland, Oregon
KWMD, Kasiloff-Anchorage, Alaska
WPRR, Grand Rapids, Michigan
WCRS, Columbus, Ohio
WSLU, St. Leo, Florida

as well as internet stations:

Radio Veronica, West Point, PA
The Journey Radio
WXXE
Seattle Radical Radio
Radio for Peace International
Radio Labourstart
AmericanFM.org
RadioDriftless.org
Grateful Dread Public Radio

Please email Building Bridges if you are broadcasting our National Edition.
We'd like to have an accurate list of which stations are airing Building
Bridges.
So please let us know! Email knash@igc.org
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[creative-radio] PUNE India: Radio programme for, of and by the visually-impaired

Radio programme for, of and by the visually-impaired
Times of India - India
We want to make visually-impaired students well-versed with every aspect of
community radio service," says Anand Deshmukh, director of Vidyawani. ...
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pune/Radio-programme-for-of-and-by-the-visually-impaired/articleshow/4710920.cms>

"...PUNE: For over an hour, visually-impaired and sighted students
interacted with each other on air over music and sports, even grammar. ...

The programme was Braille Webradio Dnyanadrushtiche Saadhak Aamhi' (In
pursuit of Knowledge) run for, of and by the visually impaired, which went
live on Vidyawani, the community radio station at the University of Pune
at 107.4 Mhz on Saturday afternoon. Students
from Jagruti School for Blind Girls, Alandi, and sighted students from
Aksharnandan participated.

Satish Navale, who conceptualised the idea of Braille radio, spearheads
the Dnyanadrushtiche Saadhak Aamhi' series. "This is the first time that a
radio programme for the visually-impaired has gone on air," he says. "The
aim of this programme is to give visually-impaired students professional
training in radio production, writing, presenting and other technical
aspects related to the field. Bringing the sighted and visually-impaired
together is a way to bridge the gap between the two and help the blind
live and develop normally within society, without feeling isolated." said
Navale, himself visually-impaired.

Navale is supported by a team of seven visually-impaired students who
learnt radio production and presentation on the job. "We have presented
this maiden episode as an experiment. We want to make visually-impaired
students well-versed with every aspect of community radio service," says
Anand Deshmukh, director of Vidyawani.

Rajani Indulkar, honorary secretary of the Poona School and Home for the
Blind Trust and Dnyaneshwar Tapkir, vice-president of the National
Federation of the Blind in Maharashtra (that runs Jagruti School) were
chief invitees at the programme.

"This is the first time I learnt just by listening. It was fun interacting
with the Jagruti students," says Parag Velankar, a Std IX Aksharnandan
student.

The programme is supported by of the Board of College and University
Development (BCUD). "We are going to establish an extensive policy for the
rehabilitation and development of the visually impaired, which involves
training and even placements," said Pandit Vidyasagar, director of BCUD.

We also get guidance from the faculty of Pali at UoP and Mahesh Deokar and
Arvind Paranjape of IUCAA. "We want to include subjects like astronomy,
maths and science in our future episodes," said Navale.

The long-term plan of all those involved in this initiative is to approach
All India Radio (AIR) to broadcast programmes of, for and by the visually
impaired. "We want to motivate and guide the physically disabled through
this radio programme. The visually impaired are the first to be invited to
participate in it," said Sanjeev Sonawane, professor and head of the
department of education and extension, under which visually impaired
students get assistance in Braille.

"Such a programme will help the visually impaired gain more knowledge just
by hearing because their auditory senses are the sharpest," said Indulkar.

The next episode of Dnyanadrushtiche Saadhak Aamhi' will be a two-hour
segment to be aired on September 5, on the occasion of Teacher's Day. "We
plan to invite visually-impaired teachers, as well as visually-impaired
students for this show," said Navale, who is also planning a special
episode to be based and recorded on the Wagah Border in mid-October. ..."

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Saturday, 27 June 2009

[creative-radio] MENA Indonesia radio becomes voice for tolerance

Indonesia radio becomes voice for tolerance

By Jerome Rivet – 1 day ago

[excerpt]

JAKARTA (AFP) — A young radio news agency in Indonesia is attracting fans
and international recognition for programming that eschews "infotainment"
and focuses on hard issues like human rights and corruption.

Founded 10 years ago after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, KBR-68H
is making the most of the liberalisation of Indonesia's media to spread
values of free speech and religious tolerance across the huge archipelago.

The country's only independent national news agency now has a network of
more than 600 local radio affiliates and an audience of more than 18
million people in almost all corners of the mainly Muslim country.

Co-founder and managing director Santoso said that in the era of Facebook
and Twitter, old-fashioned radio was still the "cheapest and most
flexible" way to reach a wide audience.

"Our goal is to expand our network to Indonesia's remote areas such as
central Papua, Sumba island or Maluku. It will encourage citizen
participation and strengthen democracy," he said.

As Indonesia is broken up into thousands of islands, the best way in KBR's
view to reach listeners is to offer ready-made programming to community
radio stations in each region.

"We send eight hours of programmes per day -- news bulletins, reports and
a lot of interactive talk shows," production director Heri Hendratmoko
said.

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