Red Tape Mutes Community Radio in India
Security concerns appear to have stymied the growth of community radio (CR) in India, a vast and diverse country of 1.2 billion people, the bulk of them living in remote, rural areas. “There are too...
View ArticleCommunity Radio Tunes Into Ad Revenues in India
Community Radio (CR) broadcasting in India, long bound by red tape, has received a fillip with the government announcing a hike in advertising tariffs and the auction of licenses. “The increase in...
View ArticleInternet Radio Powers on After Arab Spring
When an Egyptian court fined former president Hosni Mubarak and two aides a total of 90 million dollars for cutting mobile and Internet services during protests that led to his ouster, it indicated the...
View ArticleNew Media Law, New Voices in Argentina
“We don’t need other people to speak for us any more. We have our own voice now,” Armando Kispe of Queta, a Kolla indigenous community, said enthusiastically at the Pachakuti radio station high on the...
View ArticleReaching Bolivia’s Native People on the Airwaves
Every morning from 6:00 to 8:00 AM, native people in this sprawling working-class suburb of La Paz, Bolivia listen to the programme broadcast by former education minister Donato Ayma in the Aymara...
View ArticleChallenges Dog Community Radio, Finally on Air in El Salvador
For the first time in El Salvador, a community radio is broadcasting under its own licence. The struggle continues, however, for legislative change that will give these kinds of broadcasters more...
View ArticleDigging Deep for New Conflict
If Herod the Great was a controversial figure of his time, 2,000 years on the controversy isn’t about his legacy; it’s about who holds the rights to excavate and preserve his artefacts. A new...
View ArticleEthiopia Leads the Bamboo Revolution
A combination of an abundance of bamboo and eager foreign investment is making Ethiopia a frontier for the bamboo industrial revolution in Africa, according to this country’s government. “Ethiopia has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Migrants Tune in to Community Support
A community radio station in Thailand is helping migrant workers access crucial information about their rights. Credit: Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau/IPSAt the age of 23, Gao travelled to Thailand to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Missing Melody in the Tune of Sustainable Development’
Laila Mutebi, 26, is the voice of Evening Voyage, on Uganda’s 101.7 Mama FM. It claims to be Africa’s first women’s radio station. Credit: Amy Fallon/IPSIt is 10.26 am in Kampala and a Ugandan woman is...
View ArticleINDONESIA: Community Radio Helps Revive Forests
By Kanis DursinJAKARTA, Feb 21 2012 (IPS) Irman Meilandi unhesitatingly attributes the return of birds, wildlife and the forests around his hilly village of Mandalamekar in West Java province to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FM Radio Spells Change, Success for Mideast Women
By Jillian Kestler-D'AmoursRAMALLAH, Feb 22 2012 (IPS) Nisreen Awwad moves closer to the microphone as she signs off to her listeners, the words “Nisaa FM: music, change, success” displayed prominently...
View ArticleCommunity Radios in Colombia Tune In for Peace
By Helda MartínezBOGOTÁ, Feb 23 2012 (IPS) Cleaning up a stream that used to be a garbage dump and restocking it with fish, or helping demobilised far-right paramilitaries reintegrate into society by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Airwaves Cut Distances in Rural Peru
By Milagros SalazarLIMA, Feb 29 2012 (IPS) The Onda Rural communication for development initiative in Peru has come up with a range of strategies to get information out to remote villages, to help them...
View ArticleClik here to view.
URUGUAY: Community Radios Have Innovative Law, But Are Off the Air
By Inés AcostaMONTEVIDEO, Feb 29 2012 (IPS) Uruguay took a giant step towards more democratic media when it passed a law on community radio broadcasting in 2007. But although regulations for the law...
View ArticleClik here to view.
JAMAICA: New Technologies Extend Life and “Mobility” of Radio
The last broadcast antenna installed in Kingston in the 1990s by Power 106 FM, a subsidiary of the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper. Credit: Zadie Neufville/IPSBy Zadie NeufvilleKINGSTON, Mar 3 2012 (IPS) In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Campus Radio Turns Grassroots Voice
By Kara SantosMANILA, Mar 11 2012 (IPS) Since it first hit the airwaves more than 50 years ago, the University of the Philippines (UP)’s campus radio has evolved into a community broadcaster, serving...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Sound of Peace in Kenya’s Kibera Slum
Nancy Mweu, of Pamoja Radio, says she has been able to change the lives of women through her radio programme. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPSBy Isaiah EsipisuNAIROBI, Mar 12 2012 (IPS) In a Kibera-bound...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lessons in Democracy on South Sudan’s Airwaves
By Charlton DokiJUBA, Mar 14 2012 (IPS) It is late afternoon and a group of men and women begin to converge under the shade of a huge mango tree in Yambio town, the capital of South Sudan’s western...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Measuring How Climate Change Affects Africa’s Food Security
A young girl digs a 'zai pit' in order to improve the productivity of her family farm in Kitui County, eastern Kenya. Credit: Xavi Fernández de Castro/IPSBy Xavi Fernández de CastroNAIROBI, Oct 15 2014...
View Article
