Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law and Regulation has just been published by the World Bank. It doesn’t specifically address radio 2.0 issues, but without the policies, laws and regulations that permit independent broadcasting, there wouldn’t be much future for radio 2.0 or any other kind of radio… Read on for a brief description and links.
Archive for the 'online resources' Category
“Community Radio: A user’s guide to the technology” is a guide to technical parameters of community radio in India. Produced by UNESCO for potential community radio operators, this technical manual takes into account the intention of the Government of India to establish 4000 community radio stations by 2008.
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UNESCO’s New Delhi office has just published a booklet “Forging Innovations: Community Multimedia Centres in Nepal”. The publication includes a collection of case studies on the Community Multimedia Centres (CMC) in Nepal and is intended to showcase the interesting and diverse growth of this initiative in spite of conflict and the lack of community radio regulation in Nepal.
From its base at Radio Regen in the UK, the Community Radio Toolkit is a website (and more) that features resources for community radio stations. Currently the site is featuring a Spotlight on making the most of your station’s website with lots of information for how to build a webite, make it more interactive, use social networking sites, and even how to make money with a CR station website. An online discussion forum is currently talking about content management systems (CMS) for community radio.
In response to a request for information about projects with radio and ICTs, Yves Degoyan sent the information below about the Global Independent Streaming Support (GISS) project. GISS provides infrastructure and software for independent multimedia (including 10 or 15 radio stations, although at least some of these are internet-only radio).
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