[cr-india] 'Community radio allows common people to be heard by the powerful'

[Alokesh]

INTERVIEW

'Community radio allows common people to be heard by the powerful'
- Jocelyn Josiah

This is a hot seat," sighs Jocelyn Josiah, as we settle down for the 
interview. The lady is neck deep in her work as Advisor to Unesco, for 
Communication and Information, Asia. Under Josiah's purview are India, 
Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Her main work relates to freedom of expression and rights, but that takes 
Jocelyn to her most passionate area of specialisation: community radio, 
which she says has completely transformed communities, empowered them and 
made callous, unresponsive politicians and officials respond and often act 
for developmental work.
Josiah, who comes from the Caribbean Isles and has worked on this project 
across the world, speaks of the Unesco mandate, the powers of community 
radio, costs and ethics and the great liberating, empowering force of the 
community radio to indiantelevision.com's Sujit Chakraborty.

Excerpts:

Full interview with Jocelyn Josiah available at :
http://www.radioandmusic.com/headlines/y2k7/june/28june/jocelyn_josiah_interview.php


Regards,
Alokesh Gupta