On the Peace and Justice Trail: A West African CR Diary – Part 2
Prof. Vinod Pavarala, the UNESCO Chair on Community Media, visited Sierra Leone and Cameroon last...
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The poor and marginalized find themselves without a voice in that monolithic public sphere
Interview of Prof. Vinod Pavarala by Alexander Vojvoda, Civil Peace Service (CPS) peace worker in Buea, Cameroon. Click here to view the document. …
Read MoreCR in India: Whose vision? Whose voice?
The late Zane Ibrahim, community radio pioneer in South Africa, had famously said, “Community radio is 90% about community and 10% about radio.” Something to that effect, anyway. After the recently concluded National Sammelan of...
Read MoreCR-CIT Peer Reviewers empanelled
The first workshop for training peer reviewers for CR-CIT (Community Radio Continuous Improvement Toolkit), supported by CEMCA and organized by the UNESCO Chair on Community Media, was held in Hyderabad between October 8-10,...
Read MoreFree radios in Germany lend a radical edge
Last October I was, by chance, at a dinner reception in Brno, Czech Republic with Ralf Wendt and Michael Nicolai of Radio Corax, a free radio station in Halle, Germany. We were there for a CMFE (Community Media Forum of Europe)...
Read MorePanel discusses CR concerns on World Radio Day
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) in partnership with UNESCO, New Delhi observed the World Radio Day on February 13, 2014 at the India International Centre, New Delhi. On this occasion, a panel...
Read More‘Ban on radio news against law’
COURTESY: Himanshi Dhawan, The Times of India, December 15, 2013 NEW DELHI: Independent radio experts and stakeholders in the community radio sector on Saturday slammed government ban on radio news as part of a colonial, archaic...
Read MoreChair to speak on ‘Liberating Radio News From Government’
Prof. Vinod Pavarala will participate as a speaker at a deliberation on ‘Liberating Radio News from Government’, organised by the Foundation for Media Professionals, on December 14, 2013 at India International...
Read MoreEuropean meet discusses role of community television
Community media activists, academics and policy makers from 26 European countries met in Brno at the CMFE Annual Conference to discuss the role of community radio and community television as agents for change in democracies. The...
Read MoreTime to join hands and strengthen CR sector in South Asia
Community Radio has been making waves in South Asia during the past couple of months. Both the NGO, Common Cause’s recent public interest litigation (PIL) and the SAARC-AMARC South Asia consultations in September have...
Read MoreUNESCO Chair speaks at The Great Debate, United Kingdom
Professor Vinod Pavarala and Tony Durcan took part in The Great Debate: “Media, Culture, Voice: Tackling Inequality and Marginalization”, held at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK on 15th July 2013. The speakers touched upon...
Read MoreCommunities are entitled to news; Ban on news in community broadcasting must go
Eighteen years after the Supreme Court of India (SC) delivered a historic judgement (1995) declaring that “airwaves are public property” and that they must be “used for public good,” the Court is once again on the threshold of a...
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