[cr-india] From AMARC meet in Bangalore... some images and short videos

[Frederick Noronha]

While passing through Bangalore on one day of the AMARC Asia-Pacific
meet, I managed to pick up some photographs and short video
interviews, that might be of interest:

Some (in formal) pics from the event:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157623510829846/

Ashish Sen... on community radio in the Asia Pacific
Ashish Sen is president for AMARC (Asia-Pacific). AMARC is the
Association of Community Radio Broadcasters.  Here he talks about
AMARC and what it means to the region, including the issues and
challenges thrown-up in the Asia-Pacific.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehAALYIhoRE

SEWA ... takes to the airwaves
Ahmedabad-headquartered The Self-Employed Women's Association of India
(SEWA) is a trade union for poor, self-employed women workers in
India. SEWA was founded in 1972 by the noted Gandhian and civil rights
leader Dr Ela Bhatt. SEWA's main office is located in Ahmedabad,
Gujarat, and it works in several states of India. SEWA had a
membership of 966,139 in the year 2008 (Source: Wikipedia). SEWA's
Namrata Bali talks about why radio and the media is important for an
organisation like this. Contacts sewaacdy at youtele.com,
mahilasewatrust at vsnl.net http://www.sewaacademy.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNDUuPxWoeI

    From deep down south, an alternative broadcast venture in Madurai
    Just as I was on my way to Madurai, I ran into E. James
    Rajasekaran (MA, MPhil) of the PARD. The People's Association
    for Rural Development, as chance would have it, is a
    Madurai-based organisation that recently got a license to
    broadcast through its own community radio station. Contacts
    pardmadurai at hotmail dot com or phone 9543903735 (mobile).
    Office is at 10/8 Annai Abirami Street, Sirhi Vinayagar Koil
    Street, Thasildhar Nagar, Madurai 625020. Some insights and
    views from the deep south of India.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ifrW19yc8

Radio training for women... something that's their due
Bianca Miglioretto, of Isis International, is a passionate advocate
for the cause of women getting more tech training in community radio
stations, in Asia, as in the rest of the globe. She's a great trainer
(I've been for one of her sessions... from
zero-to-a-radio-jingle-in-three-hours-fl at) and very articulate about
why change is needed on the access-to-technology-for-women front.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMSXNLYKnfc

Radio alternatives... in Bihar, Kashmir and elsewhere
Anthropologist, journalist andnow project officer. That's
Kazimuddin (Kazu) Ahmed, who speaks of the plans of the Panos
Institute (D222 First Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi
110024) in the field of radio alternatives in India. Kazu can
be contacted at kazu at panossouthasia dot org and the
website of their organisation is at
http://www.panossouthasia.org (Incidentally, Kazu wrote a
chapter for a book I recently co-edited, on environmental
journalism in India, called The Green Pen, Sage, Jan 2010,
but we never met till this encounter!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9pm7ssI7A

Alternatives in the media, alternatives to the media
Dr Pradip Ninan Thomas is one of the early Indian scholars who has
persistently looked at media alternatives, both within India and beyond. He
is presently associate professor of the School of Journalism & Communication
at the University of Queensland at Brisbane. He talks of his work and his
plans, and how the media debate of today links up with the Sean Macbride and
NIIO debates of the 1970s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSYFSgqoto

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Frederick Noronha
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