Dear GKD Members, Community Radios in Uganda witnessed progress at building impact at the grassroots on Friday 8th June 05 last week, when they dominated the UNICEF's International children's Broadcasting Day awards. The competition which assessed the best dramatic program and participatory programming, was carried out on 12th December 2004 under the auspices of UNICEF and attracted the participation of a number of both commercial and community radios.
The one day's 4-hour program was entirely a children's show, built on specific thematic issues, under the directorship of the radio managers. After all the results were analyzed, Nabweru Community Radio had lifted the first position trophy for Dramatic program and second position trophy for Participatory Programming with a cash prize of one million three hundred and forty thousand shillings (1,340,000/= equivalent to $ 755). On the other hand Apac Community Radio took the alternate position trophies for the competition with the same cash prize, leaving nothing for the commercial radios which participated. The Manager of Nabweru believes this was a milestone for community radio, more especially as the issues of sustainability and relevancy of ICTs in community development dominate current chat rooms of development agencies. The questions that remain for us to ponder, is whether such competitions can be copied? How? How often? At what levels? In your opinion do you think it is worthwhile for ICT4D? We will be glad to share your opinion on the List. Thanks, Sarah For -- Secretariat UgaBYTES Initiative Plot 30 Kampala Road 5th Floor - GreenLand Tower opposite Bank of Uganda P.O.Box 6081 Kampala-Uganda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check our website: http://www.ugabytes.org ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
