5077 The Drum Beat, Issue 549, Radio, July 5 2010

This issue includes:

* Securing ACCESS to radio technology.
* Welcome to a new CI ASSOCIATE.
* CAPACITY-building for radio production.
* MORE options for finding CI radio-related content.
* Ideas for DIVERSE airwaves.
* VOTE in our ICT4D poll!
* IMPACT of radio as a change strategy.

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From The Communication Initiative Network – where communication and media are central to social and economic development.

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This issue of The Drum Beat shares just a small selection of summaries contributed by Communication Initiative network members illustrating the way radio is being used in communities around the world to foster social change.

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GARNERING ACCESS

1.      Hydro-Power Helps Radio Reach Remotest Papua
by Tessa Piper
…describes a 2007 article on the creation and launch of a community radio station, Radio Pikonane, in a remote village of Papua, Indonesia, where there was no electricity. «We now have new opportunities to help ourselves…»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/273957/307

2.      RadioDNS – The Missing Link?
by Skip Pizzi
…describes a recent proposal by United Kingdom (UK) broadcasters for standardising how to access radio services’ programme-associated online resources. Covers both analog and digital radio broadcast formats…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/302389/307

3.      Improving Access to Rural Radio by ‘Hard-to-Reach’ Women Audiences
by Jennifer Sibanda
…from 2001, examines the implications of women’s access to radio…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/214786

4.      Escucha! Taking Community Radio Digital in the Americas – United States and Latin America
…providing 18 Spanish-language community radio journalists in the United States and Latin America with training and a web-based service to share and rebroadcast stories across borders…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/302869/307

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NEW CI ASSOCIATE

A warm welcome to our newest CI Associate, Naashon Zalk Media –http://www.comminit.com/en/node/319310 We are honoured by their confidence in us and support of our work.

Their support goes directly to the services we provide to The CI Network through the website, The Drum Beat, and all of our interactive platforms.

Please consider joining them through the CI Associates process – helping to preserve, sustain, and advance this growing knowledge sharing and social networking process. Many levels of participation are open!

For a full list of current CI Associates, please see http://www.comminit.com/ci_associates/members

For details and to sign up, please see http://www.comminit.com/ci_associates/register

Thank you.

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BUILDING CAPACITY

5.      Radiophonics (formerly Crossing Borders) – Nigeria and Uganda
…an online cross-cultural distance-learning radio project that reached out to young African writers working in the fields of poetry, prose, fiction, and children’s writing…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/128510/307

6.      (S)he-bytes – South Africa
…trained producers at community radio stations, as well as community-based organisations, to develop and broadcast quality content on gender issues…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/133710/307

7.      Prospects and Challenges of Institutionalised Community Radio Initiatives: An Exploration
by Suchi Gaur and Sarita Anand
…describes the functioning of community radio setups in different colleges in India. Concludes with a few suggestions: using local leadership, arranging proper orientation of CR staff, conducting research to study impact of the CR, and making top-down models of communication more participatory…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/303255

8.      Africa Good Governance Programme on the Radio Waves – Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda
…a distance learning programme transmitted via digital satellite radio technology that aimed to reach out to remote rural areas and help foster social inclusion and decentralisation in the participating countries…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/134525/3083

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For MORE on Radio, please see:

* The latest radio-related summaries – http://www.comminit.com/en/section2/36/36%2C63 – posted on The CI site.

* Soul Beat Africa’s Community Radio theme site: http://www.comminit.com/en/africa/community-radio

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DIVERSE RADIO VOICES

9.      Other Voices: The Struggle for Community Radio in India
by Vinod Pavarala and Kanchan K. Malik
…from 2007, investigates the ideologies and communication practices of various community-based organisations that have been using community radio as a means for empowerment at the grassroots…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/270918/348

10.     Communicating Rights for Children: A Study on Children’s Participation in a West African Radio Campaign
by Rosita Ericsson
…describes a West African radio programme that was designed to raise awareness of children’s rights in 9 countries. Mentions that the participants of this 2002 study were convinced that children acting in the radio spots attracted listeners’ attention, spreading the core messages related to children’s rights…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/270918/348

11.     Media Poetics and Cattle Ranching: Making Community Radio Relevant to Language and Power
by Clemencia Rodriguez
…explores the ways in which community radio is being used to challenge cultural assumptions in Colombia’s «cowboy country» – with a focus on Radio Andaqui in Belén de los Andaquíes…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/296395/306

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Please VOTE in our ICT4D Poll, which asks: Should ICT be used to enhance the development of empathy in young children? If yes, how? If no, why not?

* YES. It can show them stories of the lives of other children through video and blogs.
* YES. It can provide «hero» stories of those working for change, particularly in the lives of children.
* YES. It can connect them with other children through adult-arranged social networking, live chats, or «email penpals».
* NO. Young children should not be encouraged to understand others through ICT because it is not developmentally appropriate for them as a tool.
* NO. Young children should not be encouraged by adults to understand others until they present questions of their own based on face-to-face contact with others.
* OTHER. Explain in the comments box.

VOTE AND COMMENT at http://www.comminit.com/en/node/309183/307

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If you have COMMENTS on this new format of The Drum Beat, please send them todrumbeat@comminit.com

We’d love your feedback!

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EVIDENCE OF IMPACT

12.     Contribution of Radio Broadcasting to the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Southern Madagascar
by Leo Metcalf, Nicola Harford, and Mary Myers
…explores the impact of using radio and radio listening groups on audience knowledge and attitudes relating to the Millennium Development Goals…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/72020/376

13.     Radio: Connecting Papua
The Impacts of Radio Pikon Ane on Communities in Kurima, Yahukimo, Papua by Eriyanto and Esti Wahyni
…looks at the impact of a radio station in the Central Highlands of Papua, Radio Pikon Ane, which «offers access to and a media for information, never before available in such a geographically isolated area with such poor communication infrastructure…»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/318385

14.     Using Radio for Budget Advocacy: Stories from Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Georgia, Indonesia, Kenya, and Uganda
…describes civil society organisation efforts to use radio as part of larger budget advocacy and budget literacy efforts by civil society groups. States that radio has been effective in disseminating budget information, raising awareness on budget issues, and delivering specific advocacy messages to particular populations where lack of literacy and of television transmission are issues…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/277484/3083

15.     Communicating with Radio: What Do We Know? Findings from a Review of Selected Rural Radio Effectiveness Evaluations
…explores links between radio-based communication strategies and rural development outcomes, particularly with regard to smallholder farming and food security outcomes in Africa…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/272475/306

16.     Listener as Producer: Minga Peru’s Intercultural Radio Educative Project in the Peruvian Amazon
by Arvind Singhal, Eliana Elías Valdeavellano, and Lucía Durá
…describes the work of Minga Perú in producing and broadcasting participatory health education programming in the Peruvian Amazon region and indicates initial impact findings…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/290626/347

17.     Community Radio and Social Change: An Impact Evaluation in Bali, Indonesia
…details an impact evaluation of a 3-year project centred on a community-oriented radio station in Bali, Indonesia, highlighting the integration of a community development approach between on-air and off-air programming…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/274976

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If you have COMMENTS on this new format of The Drum Beat, please send them todrumbeat@comminit.com

We’d love your feedback!

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This issue of The Drum Beat was written by Kier Olsen DeVries.

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The Drum Beat is the email and web network of The Communication Initiative Partnership – ANDI, BBC World Service Trust, Bernard van Leer Foundation, Calandria, CFSC Consortium, CIDA, DFID, FAO, Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, Ford Foundation, Healthlink Worldwide, Inter-American Development Bank, International Institute for Communication and Development, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs, MISA, PAHO, The Panos Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, SAfAIDS, Sesame Workshop, Soul City, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNICEF, USAID, WHO, W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

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