[WSIS CS-Plenary] Community Radio: An Effective Tool for Development

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Theme of the conference :
Community Radio:  An Effective Tool for Development
Sub themes: Participatory role of communities through community radio in the following sectors 

1. Agriculture and rural,  2. Medical and health,  3. Judicial and legal,  4.Education and Information 

Community Radio is a new concept in India but this form of participatory communication has proved to be very successful as a tool for social development at the grassroots level in many countries like Australia, Latin America, Africa and closer to our borders in Sri Lanka. Community Radio utilizes the desire of every individual to communicate. Its strength lies in its ability to involve a wide cross section of the members of the communities living within the transmission zone and through the broadcasts project the needs and aspirations of the people. Due to its close range of broadcast, community radio programmes are usually made in the local dialects, often neglected by mainstream media and commercial channels.  The main challenge of community radio lies in the understanding of community needs and ensuring inclusiveness of all sections within the communities and making the community active partner in all aspects of running the station.

More than 30 community radio stations are already functional in different parts of India and  have started regular broadcast . Permission for starting community radio  has already been granted to another 91 organizations. As the idea of using community radio starts getting popular it is also time to understand how this powerful tool  for social development should be used, its potential optimally utilized and how it can be transformed into a tool for the overall development in the communities. With this in view, the Indira Gandhi National Open University invite papers from all practitioners and academicians aware of the function and potential of community radio to suggest how this communication tool should be tailored to be more focused in Indian contexts of social development.

The participants are requested to send the following details along with their 'Final  Papers' limit to  2000 words.


  a.. Bio data 
  b.. Details of their association/organization with community radio 
  c.. The medium preferred  would English/Hindi

  Please send your papers through email. Along with CD copy  and a hard copy to the given address:
  Hisamuddin  Faruqui, EMPC-IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi- 110068; mbandana @gmail.com;hisam.faruqui at gmail.com

  The last date for submission of final papers :  16th August, 2008
  Important to note: 
  d.. this the first and final call for papers, 
  e.. the organizing committee has the  discretion to select or reject any paper, 
  f.. IGNOU will have all rights to the received papers to print or publish for educational purposes. 
  g.. the  presentation of papers in the conference  will be subject to limit,  if submitted papers are more in numbers. 

Bazlu
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AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC)
&
Member, Strategy Council
UN-Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID)
 
House: 13/1, Road:2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 
Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh
 
Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501
01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105
 
E-mail: ceo at bnnrc.net, bnnrc at bd.drik.net
www.bnnrc.net
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