[cr-india] OFFTOPIC: Independent media - links needed: Dublin Community Television

[Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो]

A note from Sean O Siochru, focussing on the community media in north
western Europe. FN


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sean O Siochru <sean at nexus.ie>
Date: 2009/7/11
Subject: Independent media - links needed: Dublin Community Television
To: Frederick Noronha <fred at bytesforall.org>, OURMEDIA-L at lists.ou.edu


Hi Fred and everyone

I am proud to say that Dublin Community Television, following more
than a decade in planning, lobbying and building, is today celebrating
the first birthday of its official launch last July.  With seven
full-time staff, lots of short-term people and volunteers, we now
produce up to 40 hours a month of community programmes (as well as
broadcasting selections from around the world), much of it in our new
state-of-the-low-end-art studio.  This volume of own-produced stuff
puts us second only to RTE - the public service broadcaster here!

You can find out more about DCTV at www.dctv.ie and we go out on cable
all over Ireland (Republic only!).   But you can also stream our
own-produced programmes from Vimeo (the cheapest way we could find to
stream high quality), and all can be torrent-downloaded (all creative
commons. of course).  See:
http://vimeo.com/user950597/videos/sort:date  for about 55 programmes,
including local and international campaigns; drama made by school
children, our own news programme called The Sound; and lots lots more.

You can even see me producing/presenting a few! e.g.
http://vimeo.com/4899546  a panel discussion about a radical magazine
in Ireland of the 1970s called 'Ripening of Time' that many of us read
and wrote for.

We believe that right now there is a huge obligation on all of us to
develop and get alternative ideas out, to confront the current
financial/economic crisis with ideas that have the potential to
generate systemic change, not simply a return to the status quo of
consumerism and ever spiralling 'growth'.  So we are really trying to
build a platform, as well as people skilled and confident to do this,
in television and video.

In solidarity with all of you...  lets keep building these bridges
sand by all means view, download and screen any of our stuff you like!

Sean
Chair DCTV.

At 12:00 23/06/2009, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक
नोरो wrote:
>
> A debate from the APC list. Please see if you could offer any useful
> links. Thanks! FN
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] <fred at bytesforall.org>
> Date: 2009/6/23
> Subject: Re: [APC Forum] independent media - links needed
> To: "A general information sharing space for the APC Community."
> <apc.forum at lists.apc.org>
> Cc: Hutokshi Doctor <hutokshi at pn3.vsnl.net.in>
>
> Dear Danijela,
>
> Please take a look at http://www.infochangeindia.org, which is a
> prominent, efficiently-run Indian space for alternative news. It
> updates every month, and has interesting content.
>
> It would be nice for APC to help build a directory (maybe online) of
> alternative news spaces. Why not also ask OURMEDIA, the network of
> academics and activists working on the alternative media, if people
> there have suitable links too? Best, FN
>
> 2009/6/23 Danijela Babic <dbabic at zamir.net>:
> > Dear all,
> > We are looking for ifno about trusted independent (digital) media
> > initiatives worldwide. (the web sites should have English section.)
> > If you know any reliable media initiative in your part of the world,
> > please be so kind to send us link.
> > best
> > Danijela
> > ZaMirNET
>
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Seán Ó Siochrú
Chairperson, Dublin Community Television (DCTV)
101-103 James Street, Dublin 8
tel:  01 6724001;  direct 01 2821003; mobile: 087 20 48 150
email: sean at nexus.ie
Website: http://www.dctv.ie



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