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 Tanzania: Mlimani Radio 106.5 FM (Part Two)
This clip showcases presenters on Mlimani Radio, a community radio station run by the University of Dar Es Salaam's School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC). Topics discussed include the need for training and equipment, the power of radio in Africa and the usage of mobile phones to receive radio stations.
Date: 21 December 2010 - Added by: Ruud Crul
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Sth. Africa: Bush Radio, Cape Town
Bush Radio is Africa's oldest community radio station project and is based in Cape Town, South Africa. It broadcasts on 89.5 MHz FM. The idea of Bush Radio started in the 1980's when community activists and alternative media producers began to explore ways of using grassroots media for social change - and as an alternative voice to the media available under apartheid. For more information visit; http://www.bushradio.co.za/
Date: 21 December 2010 - Added by: Ruud Crul
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Tanzania: Mlimani Radio 106.5 FM (Part One)
The University of Dar Es Salaam is the oldest and biggest public university in Tanzania. One of its schools is the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) which was established by the government in 1975 - and today has more than 300 student enrolled. The school offers a Bachelor degree programs in Journalism, Mass Communication as well as Public Relations and Advertising. In this audio slideshow - student Maria Alphonce discusses the school's radio station "Mlimani Radio, 106.5 FM, which provides a valuable "hands-on" experience for media students to practice what they have learnt in the classroom. For more information visit; http://www.sjmc.udsm.ac.tz/
Date: 11 December 2010 - Added by: Ruud Crul
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Climate change and community radio in Ghana - Reflections from GCRN
Celestina Adwoa Pabby of the Ghana Community Radio Network discusses the role that community radio can play in working with researchers, policy-makers and local communities to address the impacts of climate change.
Date: 11 December 2010 - Added by: Ruud Crul
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Mosquito FM- Community radio in Zambia
(www.mosquitofm.com) Mosquito FM is a feature documentary that will explore the deadly malaria endemic ravaging the remote North Western Province of Zambia by documenting the impact of a new community radio station on the health of a village and the lives of the youth who volunteer to be members of the first team of bicycle reporters. Director: Paul McNeill
Date: 03 November 2010 - Added by: Ruud Crul
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Kenya: Pamoja 99.9 FM, Kibera
Pamoja Radio99.9 FM is a community radio station formed in 2007 to empower youth of Kibera and its surrounding area through education and information. In this clip, station founder and manager Adam Hussein, along with key staff, talk about the goals of Pamoja, the support of USAID and it's training policies. Pamoja FM offers internship opportunities to college students to enable them have hands on experience on journalistic practice. It also gives chances to the less fortunate people in the community to exercise their journalism potential. It's goals are; 1 Encouraging co-operation among the Kibera communities; 2 Mobilizing the youth to participate in the community development arena; 3 Partnering with other organisations, including foreign agencies; 4 Creating an environment suitable for creativity and innovation; 5 Encouraging professionalism, integrity, courtesy and honesty;
Date: 18 September 2010 - Added by: Ruud Crul
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Rural Energy Foundation, African villages lit up by solar power - Ashden Award winner
This video can be downloaded here: http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/REF10 Rural Energy Foundation won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2010. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com You also follow us on: Facebook http://bit.ly/9GKbIM Twitter http://twitter.com/AshdenAwards More than 70% of sub-Saharan Africa has no access to electricity. In rural areas this often exceeds 95%. REF has met this need by turning local communities on to solar. Recognising that the products are nothing without the local entrepreneurs to promote and install them, REF has trained local networks of budding entrepreneurs. As a result, in only three years 300,000 people in nine countries have gained access to solar energy. And better quality light gives opportunities for study, income-generation and leisure activities as well as vital access to radio and mobile phones.
Date: 18 September 2010 - Added by: Ruud Crul
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ICT4D Awareness Forum: Wale Wale Community Information Centre
This forum is supported by CTA and IICD to enhance the use of ICT in education in the rural northern province of Ghana.
Date: 20 August 2010 - Added by: Koda Traoré
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Giving Voice to the Voiceless - The African Farm Radio Research Initiative
Enock Kyambaddee, a supporter of AFRRI believes radio is the best tool to inform and educate millions of farmers in Africa. Enock works as a Farm Manager for Uganda Rural Development Training Center (URDT) in Kagadi Kibaale. He also volunteers as an extension support officer for AFRRI. In 2008, he attended the radio broadcaster's capacity building program. Since then he has supported the Kigadi Kibaale radio station in producing and broadcasting radio campaigns on agriculture topics that are important to local farmers. Enock says that radio "Gives voice to the voiceless"We can't agree more, and we will continue to support small-scale agriculture in Africa to make sure farmers are able to have a voice in their own development.
Date: 18 August 2010 - Added by: Ruud Crul
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AMIS: Connecting Farmers in Cameroon, Africa to Information via Mobile Phones & SMS
http://envisionGood.tv Nyiwung Valery Colong traveled from Cameroon, Africa to San Francisco, California in May 2009 to take part in TechSoupGlobal's N2Y4 Conference. His project - AMIS (Agricultural Marketing Information Services) - was a finalist in the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge. envisionGood.tv had a chance to talk with Valery at the conference and learn how mobile phones and SMS are being used in Cameroon to help farmers get the info they need to develop their businesses more efficiently. Thanks for watching. Please comment and subscribe! :-)
Date: 11 August 2010 - Added by: Ruud Crul
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