[From MC Rasmin, head of Sri Lankan Community Radio Forum] Dear friends in abroad, ****
** ** As you know that SL is still struggling in finding an attractive and alternative model to trigger the active community radio movement in SL. I think it’s more than enough that most of us glorify the Sri Lankan *myth of Community radio*. **** ** ** In the first World Radio Day conference, assisted by the ICT agency of Sri Lanka, our newly elected members of Sri Lankan CR forum agreed to create an online community radio model – a national one, in which most of the core principles of CR could be applied and a wider platform can be created for the betterment of the voiceless community. **** ** ** In this case, we are planning for an online community radio – at a national level, this can only be a model for us to trigger the dialogue on CR and produce some quality media outputs that can cater the disadvantaged. I am as head of the forum, seeking your consultation, advice, suggestions, knowledge inputs and guidance on following. **** ** ** We needs to learn a successful experience in connecting mobile phone directly to the online radio:**** - Can it be a bilingual or trilingual media platform? I prefer to make it in Sinhala, Tamil, and English. - Any simple or successful experience in reaching the civil society via mobile phones? We too have some successful initiatives funded by ICTA. - Does anyone have a best way of using online platform for dialogue with civil society? It can be forum, blog, social media or anything. - Any experience in recording automatically the phone calls, Skype calls etc so that civil society can participate in programme making? We have initiative in SL called *techkatha*. I am keen on more cases. - I am planning to have at least 30 regional journalists/*Nenasala*operators (Rural access centre) who can communicate and contribute us in sharing public concerns with us. - Since this is going to be a muti-lingual platform, any user-friendly way of engaging podcasting in a manner that we can categorise podcasting according to the language? - Any experience in transmitting the webcasting through a FM radio channel? - What could be the best server? - What could be the best streamer? - What could be the software’s that could be used for this purpose? - If anything you think that I could consider..? ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** I hope we can get some expertise from ICTA, which is an apex body of SL government to implement ITC initiatives. But it’s momentary for us to approach them with some homework.** I would greatly appreciate in reviewing a mail, link, case, contact and call from you. **** ** ** Regards,**** Rasmin**** ** ** M C Rasmin**** Director Sri Lanka Development Journalist Forum (SDJF) 8/5, Liyanage Mawatha, nawala, Ragagiriya Mobile – +94 773 66 75 30, Office - +941 12 87 70 07 Web – www.ldjf.org , Mail - [email protected] Skype – mcrasmin**** **
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