Wednesday, 22 July 2009

[creative-radio] Freedom and Responsibility in the Media (Sep 28-Oct 9 2009) Accra, Ghana

 

Freedom and Responsibility in the Media (Sep 28-Oct 9 2009) Accra, Ghana
The International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) of Internationale
Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWEnt) – Capacity Building International,
Germany, is offering a two-week training course on "Freedom and
Responsibility in the Media" to be held in Accra, Ghana, for journalists
from print media, news agencies, and online editions in member countries
of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The course is
designed to examine the interdependence between quality and ethics in
journalism and seeks to empower journalists to make ethical decisions even
under difficult circumstances.
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[creative-radio] Voices of Africa - Africa

 

Voices of Africa - Africa
Established in 2007, the Voices of Africa Project is an initiative by the
Africa Interactive Media Foundation that provides a web and mobile
phone-based outlet for African journalists to engage in discussions about
their continent and to report on events in their countries. The objective
of the project is to help talented Africans build a career in media, using
currently available technologies to stimulate citizen journalism that can
promote democracy and good governance in Africa. In each African country,
young men and women are identified and trained in the use of
high-technology mobile phones equipped with software to permit direct
uploads of photos, texts, and videos to a Skoeps server from where they
are transferred to the
Voices of Africa website for publication.
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[creative-radio] Urungano (Generation) youth radio programme - Rwanda

 

Urungano (Generation) - Rwanda
This youth radio programme, launched by Search for Common Grounds (SFCG)
in Rwanda in 2008, is designed to give young people, especially girls, a
platform to explore and discuss the challenges and conflicts they face
within their society. Produced in the national language Kinyarwandan, the
youth magazine show is hosted by a team of 4 girls under the age of 18 who
discuss issues such as rapid urbanisation, street children,
reconciliation, and underage marriage. Each week, the hosts of the show
conduct all the interviews as well as plan and lead the show.
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[creative-radio] PANOS RADIO SOUTH ASIA's Latest Panoscope Issue, 22 July 2009

 

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War on Taliban

In this edition, we continue to follow our account of the Pakistan Army's military offensive against Taliban militants in the scenic valley of Swat in the North West Frontier Province or NWFP of Pakistan. At the same time, the US drones continue prowling the sky over South Waziristan. The ongoing conflict is expected to cause more displacement on top of the 2.5 million uprooted by fighting in the country's northwest region since last year. The United Nations is drawing up plans to help, but its workers have no access to the part of NWFP, where the displaced are likely to arrive because of security concerns.
Country: Afghanistan-Pakistan
Upload Date: 22/07/2009

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Panoscope is an independent production of Panos Radio South Asia. We're committed to providing a forum for voices, views, and issues not often heard in the mainstream media. Non-profit media, development and other organizations can download Panoscope radio magazine free of cost for air or online use. Credit should be given to Panos Radio South Asia (PRSA) an undertaking of Panos South Asia. If you have suggestions for future programs please contact us at:

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Tuesday, 21 July 2009

[creative-radio] Call For Abstracts: Global Health and Innovation Summit at Yale

 

Please forward widely. Registration (Early Bird Rate) and Abstract Submission Now Open.

Global Health & Innovation Summit
The World's Leading Idea Incubator For Global Health Innovation

A Conference Presented Annually by Unite For Sight
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
Registration Now Open (Early Bird Registration Rate):http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

Call For Abstracts: Submit an abstract online at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference The first deadline for abstract submission is August 15, and the final abstract deadline is September 20.

"A Meeting of Minds," --CNN

200 Speakers in April 2010 <http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/speakers>, Including Keynote Addresses by Seth Godin, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sachs. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, WaterPartners, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation, and many others.

The Global Health & Innovation Summit convenes more than 2,200 participants from 55 countries. The Summit challenges students, public health professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative, effective solutions to achieve global goals.

Keynote Speakers

"Using The Power of Stories and Tribes to Spread Your Messages and Change The World," Seth Godin, MBA, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com

Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon

Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project

Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers

Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation

Kevin Jones, Co-Founder, Good Capital

Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something

Nicholas Lumpp, Cofounder, Somaly Mam Foundation

Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Ajay Nair, MBBS, MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund

Billy Shore, JD, Founder and CEO, Share Our Strength

Kevin Starr, MD, Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, Mulago Foundation

Gary White, Executive Director, WaterPartners

Andrew Wolk, CEO, Root Cause

Plus 200 Featured Speakers, including:

Ron Adelman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Yale University Eye Center

Jesus Aguais, Executive Director, Aid for AIDS

Astier Almedom, DPhil, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health

Agbessi Amouzou, PhD, Assistant Scientist, Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern Worldwide

Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Bob Bollinger, MD, MPH, Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health; Director, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Johns Hopkins University

Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)

Kathleen Casey, MD, FACS, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons

James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Luz Claudio, MD, Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, Chief of the Division of International Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Paul Cleary, PhD, Dean of Public Health, Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health; Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health

Gustavo V. de Moraes, MD, Research Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

Prabhjot Dhadialla, PhD, Program Director of Health Systems, Development and Research, Columbia Center For Global Health and Economic Development, Community Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village Project

Zoravar Dhaliwal, CEO, Community Lab

Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for Partnerships

Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine of The National Academies

Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

Kevin Frick, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Pape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth International

Ilene Gipson, PhD, Senior Scientist, Schepens Eye Research Institute; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

Kate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation

Laura Herman, Managing Director, Social Impact Advisors

Christopher P. Howson, PhD, Vice President for Global Programs, The March of Dimes Foundation

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidmiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health

Norman Kleiman, PhD, Director, Eye Radiation and Environmental Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders

Robert Lawrence, MD, The Center for a Livable Future Professor, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base of the Pyramid Initiative, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Pamela Lynam, MD, Country Director Kenya, JHPIEGO - Johns Hopkins University

John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

Carole Mitnick, Sc.D., Instructor, Department of Global Health and Social medicine, Harvard Medical School

Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, MPhil, CHES, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Global Health Program Director, New York Medical College School of Public Health

Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Blind Mission-USA

Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health

Rebecca Onie, JD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Project HEALTH

Santa Ono, PhD, Sr. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Academic Affairs, Emory University

David Oot, Associate Vice President for Health, Save The Children

Sung Chul Park, MD, Glaucoma Fellow, New York Medical College, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons

Steven Phillips, MD, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporation

Maryse B. Pierre-Louis, MD, MPH, MH/HSA, Lead HNP Specialist, Human Development; Coordinator, Booster Program For Malaria Control in Africa, World Bank Africa Region

Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, Rice University

Majid Sadigh, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis

Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, US Agency for International Development

David Spiegel, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Laura Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

John E. Tedstrom, PhD, President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC)

James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Sheila West, PhD, El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

Derek Yach, Vice President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo

Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Malaria Coordinator, President's Malaria Initiative

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[creative-radio] International Youth Day 12th August 2009

 

The details of the captioned programme may be viewed at the following link.

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How you can celebrate the day

Team up! It is a great opportunity to rally support and get key actors involved - Governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, businesses, and young people - to focus on what has been done to further the World Programme of Action for Youth.

Organize! Hold forums, public discussions and information campaigns in support of young people focusing on youth issues and how they can be addressed.

Celebrate! Plan and organize performances everywhere to showcase - and celebrate – the fact that youth contribute to the societies in which they live. Convene exchanges and dialogues focusing on the rich and varied skills, interests and aspirations of young people.

Take action! A major focus of the Day is practical action to further encourage the empowerment and participation of youth in the processes and decisions that affect their lives. The media have especially important role to play in support of the observance of the Day to promote public awareness of youth issues.

The United Nations Programme on Youth is encouraging youth organisations around the world to host community barter fairs for International Youth Day. Remember, with bartering there is no money involved, only pure exchange of goods and services.

Email us your plans and ideas on how you will be commemorating International Youth Day in your country: youth@un.org.

Hope to hear from you

Sushanta De
21st Jul 09

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Monday, 20 July 2009

[creative-radio] Community Radio in the UK after 5 years: 'Broadcasting success story' at risk

 

PRESS RELEASE: 20 July 2009

'Broadcasting success story' at risk

The 20th July marks the fifth anniversary of
the legislation that enabled Community Radio to
start broadcasting. Since then more than 200
community radio services have been licensed and
around 150 are on air, creating around 400 jobs,
involving over 10,000 volunteers, and serving a
potential audience of more than 10 million people.

Ofcom's latest Annual Report hailed community
radio as "one of the great UK broadcasting
success stories of the last few years", but that
success could turn to failure if much needed
Government support is not forthcoming, according
to community radio groups and their supporters.

The Community Radio Fund is described by Steve
Buckley, Director of Sheffield Live! 93.2FM as
".. woefully inadequate" and he's heading a plea
for a fair share of Government funding
arrangements for broadcasting. Buckley says the
new sector is in a precarious situation: "Six
stations have failed to launch, three have handed
back their licences. Others are at high risk.
This is not only a result of the recession but is
a direct consequence of a failure in government policy."

An open letter has been written to the Prime
Minister, Gordon Brown, signed by 82 community
radio leaders, media scholars and experts
including representatives of 60 community radio
stations, in a bid to raise awareness of the
threat to community radio. The Government's own
assessment, in 2003, was that the Community Radio
Fund would need £3-4 million per annum, but only
£500k was provided in the first year of operation
and there has been no further increase, despite
rapid growth in the number of community radio stations.

209radio in Cambridge is one of the operating
stations that have been badly affected by
restrictions on advertising income and
operational delays from Ofcom; its Station
Manager Karl Hartland says: "There's an urgent
need for the community radio sector to be given a
more sustainable economic base, especially in
light of the work we do with communities in a
climate of shrinking public spending. To put it
in context, the money available today through the
Community Radio Fund to help support the
operating costs of 150+ community radio stations
is less than the annual salary of a BBC Radio 1 breakfast DJ."

Despite the plaudits and awards for community
radio, the UK financial settlement compares
poorly with our European neighbouring countries.
France, for example, provides around Euro 25
million per annum for around 600 community
stations. Community radio groups and their
supporters are calling for the government to give
a higher priority to community radio its social
and economic benefit by substantially increasing
the government's contribution to the Community Radio Fund.

-ends-

For further information contact:

Steve Buckley (Sheffield Live! 93.2 FM)

Office: 0114 2201426 ; Mobile: 07801 945037

<mailto:sbuckley@gn.apc.org>sbuckley@gn.apc.org

Karl Hartland (209radio on 105 FM)

Mobile 07968 898254

<mailto:hartland.karl@209radio.co.uk>hartland.karl@209radio.co.uk

Notes:

1. The letter is available online at
http://www.sheffieldlive.org/lettertogordonbrown

2. The Community Radio Order 2004 came into force
on 20 July 2004. The government is currently
conducting a review of the Order, as part of the
Digital Britain consultation. A public
consultation paper on the Community Radio Order
2004 was published by the Department for Culture,
Media and Sport on 16 June 2009, with a closing date of 16 August.

3. The government has published (also on 16 June
2009, as part of the Digital Britain
consultation) a separate consultation paper on
plans to ringfence 3.5% of the television licence
fee to fund local and regional news and other
essential public service content priorities. This
separate consultation on funding closes 22 September 2009.

4. The Communications Act 2003 provides, in
Section 359, for a Community Radio Fund. In a
regulatory impact assessment paper at the time
the government estimated this would not cost more
than £3-4 million per annum. It commenced in
2005/06 at a level of £500,000 and has not been
increased since. The number of community radio
licences has grown from 14 to over 200.

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