Full Coverage: communications

27.07.2007 The Caribbean Internet Radio Portal (CIRP) and UNESCO in association with Youth Vibes Radio has launched its new internet radio station which is being currently tested but is already providing audio to millions of listeners around the world.

25.07.2007 The staid rituals of US presidential debates met the hurly-burly of the Internet on Monday night, in an event organised by YouTube and CNN, that saw candidates fielding questions which young Americans had uploaded to the video-sharing website.

20.07.2007 BBC World Service Trust’s new radio station in the Eurasian nation of Georgia broadcasts its programmes through loudspeakers at the city centre. The local ethnic residents are learning how to produce their own programmes and gain computer literacy.

19.07.2007 The Shanghai Information Bureau of China has shut down a literary forum run by poet Lu Yang. Such sites are ‘suspect’ on the grounds that they analyse Chinese society in veiled and ambiguous terms.

18.07.2007 Centre for Civil Society in association with Youth Parliament is organising Jeevika South Asian Livelihood Documentry Film Festival on July 20-23, 2007 in New Delhi.

16.07.2007 Brazilian NGO, Projeto Bagagem aims at improving the livelihoods of low-income Brazilian communities by developing and implementing local development alternatives based on community tourism. The organization has recently launched its website in English.

13.07.2007 Policy-Makers and the Role of Communication for Development 2005-06 is a follow-up to a study conducted in 1994 for the World Bank. The purpose is to assess changes in the perception of policy- and decision-makers in multi- and bilateral aid agencies, governments, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and further addresses the changes in human and material resources committed to this sector.

12.07.2007 Sarbuland Khan, the executive coordinator of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) in an interview to IPS, states that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) offers the best hope of empowering the poor and involving civil society in the development process. He hits out at governments that do not share information on water, health, food and sanitation.

07.07.2007 Kolme Etelä-Thaimaan yhteisöä on saamassa langattoman telelääketieteen laitteistoja tukemaan tiedonvälitystä. Julkinen-yksityinen kumppanuuden avulla tuotetut palvelut yhdistävät syrjäisiä terveydenhuoltokeskuksia sairaaloiden kanssa, mikä mahdollistaa reaaliaikaisen informaation hyödyntämisen.

06.07.2007 Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media (GFEM) is an association of grantmakers committed to media arts and public interest media funding, is holding a day-long conference on Sunday, September 16, 2007 in San Francisco. The conference will showcase the ways of how funding organizations and strategic grantmaking can influence the current media.

03.07.2007 An Indian organisation, Centre for Media Studies (CMS), is organizing a symposium on Communication for Social Development in collaboration with SN School of Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Communication on November 1-3, 2007 at the University of Hyderabad, India.