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>Subject: The Drum Beat - 5 - The Commun
>Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 14:55:57 -0800
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>The Drum Beat - 5 - Communication and Change News and Issues
>October 25th, 1998
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>The email and web network from THE COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE partnership -
>The Rockefeller Foundation, UNICEF, USAID, WHO, BBC World Service, CIDA,
>Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Soul City, The Panos
>Institute, UNFPA. Information, ideas, linkages and dialogue on
>communication, development and change.
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>Web Site: http://www.comminit.com
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>PROGRAMMES
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>1. Econews Africa's Community Media Programme promotes community-based
>media in Kenya and East and Southern African. One activity is The Kenya
>Community Media Network, a national network of individuals and
>organizations involved in participatory, community-based media for
>development and democratization. The network comprises professional media
>workers, community-based and non-governmental organizations dealing with
>information, communications, development, civic education and human rights.
>It's starting premise is that the greatest impediments to the involvement
>of community groups in relevant policy-making fora is a regulatory
>environment unconducive to freedom of expression, freedom of information
>and community-based organizing. Contact Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki
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>2. Grameen Communications (GC) promotes development through information
>access, use and exchange. Two new programmes are planned. "Village Internet
>Program" will seek poverty alleviation by reducing migration from villages
>to cities through creating IT related job opportunities for the rural poor.
>The Village Email Program [joint collaboration of Grameen Communications
>and Volunteers in Technical Assistance] will provide early warning of
>disasters to villagers. Contact Nazneen Sultana [log in to unmask]
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>3. Straight Talk in Uganda is a communication initiative to improve mental,
>social and physical development of adolescents and young adults. Two
>monthly newspapers are produced: Straight Talk [for 15-24 years] ] and
>Young Talk [10-15 years]. They are "adolescent-driven", offering
>age-appropriate information on reproductive health, life skills and child
>rights. Wide distribution is through Uganda's main newspaper, 100 NGOs and
>the postal service to 10,000 primary and secondary schools and tertiary
>institutions. There are plans to start radio programmes. Contact Anne Akia,
>Catharine Watson [log in to unmask] Visit their new web site at
>http://www.swiftuganda.com/~strtalk
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>4. Radio Zibonele is a community station in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South
>Africa. That township had serious violence between two Taxi associations. A
>number of commuters have been killed or injured. As a contribution to
>resolving this situation, Radio Zibonele invited parties to the violence to
>explain why they were "at war" and facilitated the community speaking with
>the Taxi associations. The crisis seems to have been settled. Zibonele is
>now working to ensure peace is maintained, Contact Vusi Tshose, Station
>Manager care of [log in to unmask]
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>5. A Video Training and Production Project designed to enhance the access
>of Southern video producers to mainstream television was launched in July,
>l998 in Maputo, Mozambique. The organizers are WETV - Global Access
>Television, with support from UNDP, Austria and Radio Nederland Training
>Centre. Sixteen producers made short videos on sustainable development.
>The best have been asked to prepare programs which will air on WETV's 38
>affiliate broadcasters in 4 continents. Contact Charles Morrow
>[log in to unmask]
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>MATERIALS
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>6. 'Communicating To Improve Health' summarizes presentations and
>recommendations from a conference hosted by The Robert Wood Johnson
>Foundation. A diverse group of communications professionals discussed the
>state of the art in health communications: what works, what do we still
>need to learn, what roles for philanthropy? Report is on www.rwjf.org
> Contact Frank Karel [log in to unmask]
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>7. The book 'Communication for Development' by Colin Fraser and Sonia
>Restrepo-Estrada draws attention to the fundamental importance of
>communication for development and change. Roy Colle's review [Journal of
>Development Communication] says " 'This book has numerous characteristics
>that make it extraordinary "must" reading for policy makers, ministry
>personnel, donors, project coordinators, academics, and students. Anyone
>who wonders what "communication for development" is, or..the potential role
>and impact of communication in development, or what its value is in
>economic terms, can find convincing answers..." Publishers: London: I.B.
>Tauris Fax: +44 171 831 9061 - US/Canada, St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth
>Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Contact [log in to unmask]
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>PEOPLE
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>8. Amartya Sen, who was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, had
>this to say: "[on] the role that democratic processes - plural politics,
>the freedom of the press, opportunities for public criticism - play in
>preventing disastrous deprivations of the kind that you see in famines and
>other catastrophes.....I believe that those roles are very important in
>preventing [such] desperate deprivations..." He wrote on this subject. For
>this interview and other coverage see The Times of India
> http://www.indiatimes.com/amartyasen/ Do you agree or disagree? Comment on
>the Forum section of the C.I. site - http://www.comminit.com/bin/forum.cgi
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>9. Dana Faulkner is to be the Project Director of the CHANGE programme -
>[see previous Drum Beats]. She will provide the overall strategic direction
>and be the liaison point for the relationship with USAID. Contact
>[log in to unmask]
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>10. OneWorld Online is looking for an African Regional Coordinator. The
>person in this position will work with local NGOs to build their capacity
>to use the Internet, help them network together and ensure that African
>material is strongly featured on the OneWorld supersite. Contact
>[log in to unmask]
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>11. Leo Kenny is taking up a post in UNICEF's Regional office in Geneva
>with responsibility for a broad focus on HIV/AIDS related issues, including
>adolescent health, in Central and Eastern Europe. Tasks include a regional
>journalist training consortium, National Media Awards and the supply of
>relevant media programming. Contact [log in to unmask]
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>FEATURED ON THE COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE WEB SITE - http://www.comminit.com
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>12. INTERVIEW - with Jennifer Sibanda, Executive Director, Federation of
>African Media Women-SADC. Jennifer reflects on support for disadvantaged
>and marginalised women accessing media channels and media trends in
>Southern Africa. http://www.comminit.com/interview.html
>Do you agree with Jennifer's views? Comment on the Forum
>http://www.comminit.com/bin/forum.cgi
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>13. PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMERCIAL MEDIA - Analysis of the implications for
>development of the increasing commercialisation of media in developing
>countries. Presentation of a strategic direction in a series of
> partnership activities that are not dependent on paying for air time or
>funding http://www.comminit.com/peerrev.html
>Please review and comment through the Forum
>http://www.comminit.com/bin/forum.cgi
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>WEB SITES
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>14. The Media Institute of Southern Africa promotes Media Diversity,
>Pluralism, Self Sufficiency and Independence. The site focuses on
>contemporary media issues in Southern Africa.
>http://www.misanet.org/index.html Contact John Barker
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>15. The Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programmes web
>site has recently included "Tools for Life" - a 'versatile health
>communication kit designed for front line community health workers and
>health educators in Anglophone and Francophone Africa'. Review at
>http://www.jhuccp.org/tools/ Contact Casey O'Brien [log in to unmask]
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>GATHERINGS
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>16. Africa Alive [AA] will hold a stakeholders meeting in Harare, November
>16-19. AA is a regional Adolescent Reproductive Health and AIDS prevention
>communication initiative to enable young people in making positive
>reproductive health choices. The meeting will refine the project's
>structure and strategy. 40 people representing governments and NGOs will
>attend. Facilitation will be by JHU/PCS. Contact Antje Becker
>[log in to unmask]
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>17. WHO and UNESCO meeting of communication field staff on "Applications of
>IEC to Reproductive Health" will be held in Geneva - 26-30 October. Topics
>include "The Enabling Environment for Sexual and Reproductive Health" and
>"Innovative Communication Strategies for SRH and Rights" Contact Marilyn
>Rice [log in to unmask]
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>18. UNAIDS' regional workshop on the development of a framework for
>communications programming for HIV/AIDS in Latin America and Caribbean will
>be held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, November 4-6, 1998. Contact Bunmi Makinwa
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>19. The Development Communication Roundtable meeting will be held November
>10-12 in Bahia de Salvador, Brazil. Hosted by UNICEF, topics for this
>global meeting include: Facts for Life; Capacity Building and Training
>Opportunities; and Edutainment Guidelines. Contact Morten Giersing
> mgiersing@unicef,org
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>20. The First International Conference on rural telecommunications,
>November 30 - December 2, Washington D.C. will be hosted by the National
>Telephone Cooperative Association (NTCA) and the World Bank. From the
>brochure: "Finding ways to serve rural residents is one of the most
>critical concerns in international communications technology development".
>Contact [log in to unmask] or visit the Conference web site on
>http://www.ntca.org/events/intl/regform.html
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>developments, new positions and people, web sites, materials and
>gatherings/meetings to this growing network [1600plus] of people involved
>in communication and change. Please send information to [log in to unmask]
> Many thanks and best wishes. Warren Feek
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