Workshop on ‘Voices from the Ground @ Community Radio’
NCUI Campus, August Kranti Marg, New Delhi [October 18, 2008] Dear All, Among 13 tracks and workshops happening at Manthan Award South Asia 2008 during October 16-18, 2008, Digital empowerment Foundation is organising half a day workshop on Community Radio where the focus is: - To listen and understand the realities of grassroots issues through the practitioners - To discuss case studies - To exchange notes with communities and service providers - To discuss licensing and community radio content issues through experts - To chart out agenda for action for the rest of the year where we could jointly take onus - To showcase content, technology, and aspects related to recording, editing, producing programs, equipments, and low cost studio - Live demo The other focus areas would be: 1. Scaling up information and communication capacities at Grassroots through community broadcasting; 2. Capacity building and skill up-gradation ; 3. Improve living conditions through relevant content in local languages; 4. Providing a pubic interface 5. Broadening the media choices of listeners and media consumers 6. Independent nature of CR and responsibility to serve the community 7. Socio-cultural-economic impact in poverty reduction, in addressing development objectives and in democracy building 8. A medium to facilitate oral communication traditions with development issues And so on… The full agenda is available at: http://manthanaward.org/live_communities.asp Date of workshop: October 18th: 9.30 am to 01.30 pm Please register yourself here: http://manthanaward.org/Delegates.asp Please ensure your presence… Warmest regards Osama Manzar 9810042862 011-26532786
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