---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Darpan Ved <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:22 PM
*Work Profile* > Primary Role: Project Assistant on Community Radio and Spectrum - funded by > Ford Foundation, a two year project. > Secondary Role: Project Support in other projects under both programs > > - Media for Freedom of Expression and Learning (Media Program) > - Spaces for Diverse Publics (Arts Program) > > *Work responsibilities*: > > *Relevance of the project: *The advocacy for spectrum is largely confined > to think tanks and academic spaces. However, spectrum is public property, > and also used daily by almost all sections of society in myriad ways. Thus, > this attempt is to get the common man involved in a people's reform of > spectrum issues. > * > * > *Project Details* > *Phase One*: To start off with, this two year project looks at involving > those communities who have work experience in media and communications to > some extent, vis-a-vis, community radio. To make our case and to begin > engaging with these communities, we will gain a better understanding of the > work already done in this field - locally and internationally. The first > phase will focus on comparative research, including countries like Latin > America, Australia, South Africa, U.K, South Asia and African countries etc. > > *Phase Two*: The next phase is to demonstrate possibilities of > convergence. We will visit five community radio stations across the country, > facilitate workshops with them on how to use the internet and mobile phones > in programming and to reach wider audiences.By demonstrating larger use of > the spectrum, this phase aims to broaden their perspectives on > issues/politics pertaining to spectrum use, telecom policies and access to > airwaves. > * > * > *Phase Three*: The last phase will focus on advocacy, where we will > organise and coordinate four regional workshops where we will share work > done in Phase 1 and 2, produce and share audio-visual materials on telecom > policy and spectrum. We will facilitate dialogue between different community > radio representatives to collate information about field level experiences, > spectrum related demands etc. Further, this will feed into a set of > recommendations that will be presented at a National conference where > officials from relevant Government departments (like Department of > Technology, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Wireless Protocol > Committee etc.) will be invited to participate in order to take things > forward. > > This project alone will take up maximum of 15-20 days in a month. The > remaining time will go into other areas of the work - like creative practise > in public space, organising events, film screenings, publishing on web site, > producing radio programmes, participating in discussions and team meetings. > However, concentration of work on specific areas is likely to change from > month to month. > > Apart from project related work, there will also be other opportunities > like > -Networking with different groups and individuals in the city > -Developing your own project that can feed into one of the programmes > underlined in maraa > -Collaborating with people within and outside the collective > -Interdisciplinary Learning opportunities > * > * > *Duration: *Minimum two years committment. > * > * > *Qualification*: Formal qualification is not a critical requirement. > Experience in the following sectors will be useful, but not essential: > Research/Information Communication and Technologies/Media/Telecom/Community > Radio/Communications > * > * > *Salary: *Rs.15, 000 per month to start off with. Subsequent revision > based on performance assessment and annual review (internal process). Will > be required to serve a probation period of 6 months, after which the > individual will be confirmed as an employee of maraa. > > read more about maraa's work on www.maraa.in > > If interested please write to [email protected] <[email protected]>by August 30th > about yourself (200 words) and why you are interested in working with us > (500 words) > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
