Local & community broadcasting and new ICTs
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 rural community awareness of ICTs that this convergence has allowed.”
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This chapter from The One To Watch by Jean-Pierre Ilboudo and Riccardo del Castello looks at the FAO’s experience with rural radio and ICTs.
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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