While passing through Bangalore on one day of the AMARC Asia-Pacific meet, I managed to pick up some photographs and short video interviews, that might be of interest:
Some (in formal) pics from the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157623510829846/ Ashish Sen... on community radio in the Asia Pacific Ashish Sen is president for AMARC (Asia-Pacific). AMARC is the Association of Community Radio Broadcasters. Here he talks about AMARC and what it means to the region, including the issues and challenges thrown-up in the Asia-Pacific. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehAALYIhoRE SEWA ... takes to the airwaves Ahmedabad-headquartered The Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) is a trade union for poor, self-employed women workers in India. SEWA was founded in 1972 by the noted Gandhian and civil rights leader Dr Ela Bhatt. SEWA's main office is located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and it works in several states of India. SEWA had a membership of 966,139 in the year 2008 (Source: Wikipedia). SEWA's Namrata Bali talks about why radio and the media is important for an organisation like this. Contacts sewaacdy at youtele.com, mahilasewatrust at vsnl.net http://www.sewaacademy.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNDUuPxWoeI From deep down south, an alternative broadcast venture in Madurai Just as I was on my way to Madurai, I ran into E. James Rajasekaran (MA, MPhil) of the PARD. The People's Association for Rural Development, as chance would have it, is a Madurai-based organisation that recently got a license to broadcast through its own community radio station. Contacts pardmadurai at hotmail dot com or phone 9543903735 (mobile). Office is at 10/8 Annai Abirami Street, Sirhi Vinayagar Koil Street, Thasildhar Nagar, Madurai 625020. Some insights and views from the deep south of India. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ifrW19yc8 Radio training for women... something that's their due Bianca Miglioretto, of Isis International, is a passionate advocate for the cause of women getting more tech training in community radio stations, in Asia, as in the rest of the globe. She's a great trainer (I've been for one of her sessions... from zero-to-a-radio-jingle-in-three-hours-fl at) and very articulate about why change is needed on the access-to-technology-for-women front. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMSXNLYKnfc Radio alternatives... in Bihar, Kashmir and elsewhere Anthropologist, journalist andnow project officer. That's Kazimuddin (Kazu) Ahmed, who speaks of the plans of the Panos Institute (D222 First Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024) in the field of radio alternatives in India. Kazu can be contacted at kazu at panossouthasia dot org and the website of their organisation is at http://www.panossouthasia.org (Incidentally, Kazu wrote a chapter for a book I recently co-edited, on environmental journalism in India, called The Green Pen, Sage, Jan 2010, but we never met till this encounter!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9pm7ssI7A Alternatives in the media, alternatives to the media Dr Pradip Ninan Thomas is one of the early Indian scholars who has persistently looked at media alternatives, both within India and beyond. He is presently associate professor of the School of Journalism & Communication at the University of Queensland at Brisbane. He talks of his work and his plans, and how the media debate of today links up with the Sean Macbride and NIIO debates of the 1970s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSYFSgqoto -- Frederick Noronha Columnist :: journalism :: editing :: alt.publishing :: photography :: blogging P +91-832-2409490 M +91-9822122436 A:784 Saligao 403511 Goa India Please add a 'signature' below your email. Makes it easy when someone wants to contact you! Join the Community Radio Forum. For membership details, please go to www.crforum.in
