Manual for Community Radio Managers

[Seuwandi Yapa]

"Community Radio stations" seems to be emerging as a sub culture in our telecentre network. Lot of countries have encouraged and promoted 'Community Radio Stations'. In searching the web, I found a manual developed for the community radio managers, published by UNESCO office in New Delhi. I thought sharing this piece of information would be useful to all of you, specially those who are interested in launching a community radio station.

UNESCO News Archives 2009 has reported that, UNESCO Office in New Delhi has published Digital archiving of audio content using WINISIS and Greenstone software: a manual for community radio managers. This self-instructional handbook is aimed at helping managers of community and FM radio stations, public service broadcasting agencies and any other organizations that deal with audio files create prototype archives of digital audio documents.
Free and open source software (FOSS) helps digital inclusion of citizens in developing countries through easy-to-get and socially useful applications. UNESCO’s information processing tools assist many grassroots institutions in disseminating information to local communities. Digital archive of a community radio station can be a knowledge repository containing collective wisdom of indigenous people, as well as of regional communities and institutions.

This new publication is a reliable manual for digital archiving of multimedia contents, with special focus on community radio contents. Its users will find it helpful in their every-day work. The publication has its genesis in the recommendations and proceedings of two events, supported by UNESCO: National Consultation on Community Radio for Practising and Potential Community Radio Operators in India and National Consultation to Review Community Radio in Nepal, during which community radio station managers stressed the importance of archiving digital audio contents.

In line with the needs of the community, the manual guides users in creating their own archives with stable, free software like WINISIS, GenISIS and Greenstone. The book also provides the URL addresses from where this software can be downloaded.

The manual can be downloaded here.

[Seuwandi Yapa]

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[Nelan Dayarathna]

This is so useful with me. Thanks

[Seuwandi Yapa]

Its a pleasure.. :) regards,

[ROBINSON WIKANA MUKANGAYI]

Thanks for this quite useful resource. It is full of wits.