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Frontline SMS

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on 15 Nov. 2007
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I am convinced that Frontline SMS or something similar should be part of an essential toolkit for radio stations within the footprint of a telephone signal.

Frontline SMS is a text messaging system “conceived, designed and written firmly with the needs of the non-profit sector in mind”. Basically it is an SMS management and broadcast system that runs on a computer connected to a phone with a data cable. All you need to do is insert a SIM card and you broadcast SMS messages to your listeners and classify and process messages received from them.

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Convergence for development

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on 05 Nov. 2007
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APC logoA paper by Carlos Rivadeneyra “Convergencia para el desarrollo: Radiodifusión comunitaria como estrategia para la inclusión digital” (in English “Convergence for development: Community radio as a digital inclusion strategy) has been recently released by APC. The paper is available in Spanish only.

The distinction between “new” and “old” technology is no longer significant in the current state of technology convergence. People from community radios and telecentres are working together for more democratic and participatory access to communication, specifically in and poor urban areas. This paper by Carlos Rivadeneyra provides conceptual tools to re-think, from this perspective, what we understand by information society.

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The Russian Rural Information Network

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on 03 Nov. 2007
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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.

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Creating & Sustaining ICT Projects in Mozambique

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on 03 Nov. 2007
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Birgitte Jallov was the Chief Technical Adviser for the UNESCO/UNDP Media Development Project in Mozambique. In this chapter from The One to Watch she writes about the difficulties of establishing community radio, with or without ICTs, “in one of the poorest countries in the world at the very early stages of democratisation”.

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The Kothmale Model: Using radio to make the Internet visible

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on 03 Nov. 2007
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Ian Pringle and MJR David wrote about Kothmale Community Radio and “Radio Browsing” in their chapter in The One to Watch. According to the authors: “The elements that make Kothmale stand out in the field of ICT projects are the ‘marriage’ of internet with local community radio and the innovation in raising community awareness of ICTs that this convergence has allowed.”
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