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on the development of institutional communication than on democratization of local life, which
has been relegated to second place.
The lack of autonomy of the stations and the conformism of the program schedules still weigh
too heavily in the balance, in the face of an excessively dispersed and poorly integrated civil
society, for radio to represent a serious counterweight and give impetus to a real dynamic of
proximity to its audience. Without consistent advertising resources, without measurements of
audience fidelity, exposed to foreign competition, local Algerian radio stations are timidly attempting
modest international cooperation.
It is clear that despite major efforts to catch up with a 15 year technological and professional
lag, local Algerian radio broadcasting, which has the merit of covering many places that were
previously cut off and, even more importantly, of filling the gap left by other media such as the
national and local written press as well as the State agency, could do a better job if it respected
the terms of reference of the information society, especially those terms of reference which
refer both to openness and training, on the one hand, and to parity and cooperation, on the
other.
To manage this, local Algerian radio will first have to imagine for itself a new simple and innovative
status, in order to interest all the actors of local life in a medium open to playing a
useful social and cultural role. A point of view shared by everyone, or almost everyone. A
status for local radio that must open the way to other reforms which will ensure civil society’s
full involvement in formulating communication strategies focused on a proximity medium close
to its audience. The future landscape of local radio stations, needs to be better equipped and
in a better position to be able to face the sets of conditions imposed by globalization of the
information society.
The progress made by computer science and the new information and communications technologies
over the last years has offered new possibilities which will make visible women’s
contribution to the evolution of society and to the improvement of their status within it, women
being a priority concern of our association. This openness toward the New Information and
Communication Technologies has allowed women to become organized and to communicate
amongst themselves nationally, regionally and internationally.
The “Women in Communication” Association, for its part, is in the process of creating a website
that will host its Web radio, with a view to responding to the situation as quickly as possible.