Indira Gandhi National Open University
CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY RADIO
Indira Gandhi National Open University is happy to invite papers for the conference to be organized on 'community radio' in the month of September , 2008. The following are the details:
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.
(1) The participants are requested to send the following details along with their papers in not more then 2000 words.
(2) Bio data
(3) Details of their association/organization with community radio
(4) The medium preferred would English/Hindi
Please send your papers through email. Along with CD copy and a hard copy to the given address:
Hisam Faruqui
EMPC-IGNOU
Maidan Garhi,
New Delhi- 110068
Mob: 098685 51473
For More Details Please Visit: www.ignou.ac.in
CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY RADIO
Indira Gandhi National Open University is happy to invite papers for the conference to be organized on 'community radio' in the month of September , 2008. The following are the details:
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.
(1) The participants are requested to send the following details along with their papers in not more then 2000 words.
(2) Bio data
(3) Details of their association/organization with community radio
(4) The medium preferred would English/Hindi
Please send your papers through email. Along with CD copy and a hard copy to the given address:
Hisam Faruqui
EMPC-IGNOU
Maidan Garhi,
New Delhi- 110068
Mob: 098685 51473
For More Details Please Visit: www.ignou.ac.in
