Michael Roberts of Bellanet and Partha Pratim Sarkar of Bytes For All wrote a paper about the potential of podcasting for development in 2005. The authors note that podcasts are not only for listening to on MP3 players or computers, but can also be used as a way of networking programming to be broadcast on local and community radio stations.
They also note that:
Over the next several years, mobile companies such as Nokia and Motorola will be rolling out millions of digital audio enabled phones allowing owners to listen to a whole variety of content. In addition, emerging standards such as WiMax5 will continue to facilitate increasing use of broadband Internet that could provide greater access to broadband over the next several years.
This has yet to happen, but with mobile phones becoming as common as radio receivers (one writer estimates that there were 2.7 billion mobile phones in use at the beginning of 2007, and somewhere between 3.2 and 3.8 billion radios receivers, with phones catching up quickly) it is conceivable that the phone will replace the radio as the main device for receiving audio.
Download the concept paper - Podcasting: Knowledge sharing for development through dialogue
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