When democracy returned to Indonesia in 1998, hundreds of independent radio stations were able to broadcast news for the first time. The problem? The only trained radio journalists in a country of 200 million were those who had worked for the official government news service. Prior to 1998 radio stations could not produce their own news, but had to carry the official newscast. Radio 68H was set up as a network that filled a need for news but also worked with radio stations to develop news production capacity. This is a chapter from The One to Watch.
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Nancy Bennet’s chapter in The One to Watch is about a farmers’ information network project that was assisted by the Developing Countries Farm Radio Network.
Twenty years ago, in 1988, a group of tech savvy Salvadorans and Canadians undertook a project combining radio broadcasting and new ICTs to help bring about social and political change in Central America.
The introductory chapter to The One to Watch provides an overview of how radio and the internet are being used together. The text first examines characteristics of the two information and communication technologies – radio and the internet. Then it looks at the imbalanced global expansion of the lnternet and some of the limitations that this imposes when applying North American or European models for its use in the less-industrialised regions, especially in rural areas. Finally, it turns to some of the characteristics that have enabled radio’s success in the same regions.
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