[cr-india] Radio New ICTs and Interactivity - Secreto a Voces: Radio, NTICs e interactividad

[George Lessard]

The One to Watch
Radio New ICTs and Interactivity
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En español - Secreto a Voces: Radio, NTICs e interactividad
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Why the one to watch?

Sometimes looked down upon as the "poor relation" of television, and
certainly considered old-fashioned compared to the Internet, radio today
has become the one to watch... Still the most portable communication
medium, the most widespread and the most economical, radio is now proving
itself versatile enough to go hand-in-hand with the Web.

Carleen Gardner, Assistant Director-General for Information, FAO

The Internet and other new ICTs are changing radio in the developing
world. But far from making it less relevant, they are opening up hitherto
unimagined possibilities:

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      Broadcasters who used to have to travel for hours or even days to
find a public library to research a programme, now have instant
access to the Internet;
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      National, regional and global radio news agencies are making world
news and alternative perspectives available to even the most remote
communities;
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      The radio/telecommunications combination is helping to keep
communities together, despite the distances imposed by migration.

The cases presented in this book are among the first examples of the
convergence of radio and new ICTs for development, and the book
underscores the significant potential of the combination. In this
convergence, radio promises to take on even greater significance and
value. For this reason, we believe that radio is the one to watch.

Review comments from Spore, No. 109, published by Technical Centre for
Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Feb. 2004.

    The next generation of rural radio is already with us. Once prized for
their ‘proximity’ to local news as well as local listeners,
progressive rural stations have added on several news layers of
quality, thanks to the Internet. Research by local stations can now
easily have a global spread, and programmes can be shared all over the
world, as happens between diaspora migrant communities and their home
villages.

    Current practices in programme exchange and delivery, and future
prospects, are discussed by 22 leading practitioners in rural radio
from English-, French- and Portuguese speaking Africa and from Latin
America. Their honest consideration of the problems of connectivity on
the ‘unpaved information highway’ is what keeps the book’s feet on the
ground, and rural radio’s message in the air. But it sows seeds of
dreams too: how about – just to stimulate more ideas, send them to
Mailbox – organising shared programmes on radio stations in
cotton-producing Mali and in subsidised cotton-farming Mississippee in
the United States of America? Think global, broadcast local.

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