Dear friends: The Indian government is opening up campus radio (which it calls 'community radio' though it's not quite the same thing).
The crying need at the moment is for greater awareness to be built up about how to go about setting up micro-powered radio stations. It appears that most people simply don't have the know-how -- and naturally, how would they? Radio has been such a closed medium all these years. There are legitimate questions about costs, technology and techniques. Organisations like Arun Mehta and Vickram Crishna's <www.radiophony.com> have the technology. There surely must be others too. But this probably won't reach the people who need it unless there is some mechanism to deliver it. Do you know of any international organisations -- UNDP, Unesco or other suitable supporters -- who could help build structures that would make the dissemination of training possible? Let's not give the government a chance to say that they offered but very few came forward. PS: In Goa itself, some educational institutions I broached the issue with are eager to go in for this. But getting started in a situation where so little information/training is available is a tough task indeed. Maybe even a training session could be thought off for a start, open to all interested in applying for an educational broadcast license. -- Frederick Noronha : http://www.bytesforall.org : When we speak of free Freelance Journalist : Goa India 403511 : software we refer to Ph 0091.832.409490 : Cell 0 9822 122436 : freedom, not price. ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
