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new strength to community radio. Not only will community radios get empoweredto reach new latitudes, but also Internet users will learn from a participatoryexperience, which is expected to contribute much to social change. This will allowa nexus between digital and traditional media, as well as establish a linkagebetween the radio station and Internet.Some of the envisaged benefits that ICTs could bring to community radio in theEastern and Southern Africa region include: excellent new technologies forrecording, mixing, editing and transmission. The digital audio recorder and theaudio computer editing on computers, as well as the sending of soundprogrammes electronically as attachments, will be part of the new way forward.Another benefit will be that of creating awareness of research findings in diverseareas of interest to the community. Others are mobilizing community for bestpractices, simplifying research findings, translating into user languages, andproviding radio with additional tools to serve the information needs of thecommunity.Community radio’s potential for enabling local people to relay local content inlocally-used languages can be linked to the provision of computer training,access to Internet and other digital resources.The use of the Internet will enhance communities’ knowledge base, which can beincorporated into the radio programmes hence enriching them with diverseinformation.It is anticipated that in this process of appropriating new technologies, the localusers will have the capacity to invent their own words and to rename thehardware. In other words, ICTs will give a new dimension to the bottom-up flow ofinformation. The community radio stations will have access to much moreinformation than those based on transmission only.Community radio is leading to real change in people’s lives. Experiences from theregion demonstrate that it is playing a significant role in facilitating communityand national ownership of development agendas. Firstly it registers the extentand experiences of a community (be they of poverty or marginalization) in acommunity’s own words. Through community media’s familiarity with the localarticulation of rights and demands, it also enforces accountability amongstakeholders.ConclusionExperiences from East and Southern Africa demonstrate community radios asexcellent tools for facilitating participation, empowerment, stabilization andpositive development through widening of horizon of listeners.The radio stations have provided choices to the listening community who havebecome subjects of their own development. However the community stationsAMARC Community Radio Social Impact Assessment 2007 Page 76 of 128
need to constantly be guided by asking whether the stations are serving thepurpose of giving the voice, are they demand-driven and whether programmingaddress community issues.Community radio can generate the changes necessary in development. After all itis not exactly money that creates development. People do!AMARC Community Radio Social Impact Assessment 2007 Page 77 of 128
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COMMUNITY RADIOSOCIAL IMPACTASSESSM
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Chapter 10: Community Media by and
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ForewordThe World Association of Co
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monitoring and research process was
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organizations interviewed tell only
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The Roundtables, the electronic For
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capabilities for monitoring, impact
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Each of these components of the ext
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Description of the ActivitiesThe th
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PART II. Global Challenges to Commu
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if we want to achieve poverty reduc
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Page 45 and 46: Measuring ImpactChapter 7: The Impa
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