Number 241, Febrary 2002
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To a person in Niger, does a radio that does not require batteries mean more than a gun? The Freeplay Foundation is betting that it will.
OneWorld, www.oneworld.net, is developing its use of video on the Internet -in the belief that it represents a powerful and largely unrealised tool to raise the impact of organisations working on human rights and sustainable development.
The Global Communicators Network meeting was hosted by RDRS in January in Rangpur, Bangladesh and included a series of workshops and presentations on communication about HIV/AIDS, Trade and Economic Justice, Emergencies and Disasters.
Bangladesh
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Md Jahangir
contact: cdc@bdonline.com
Campaign for “Communication Rights in the Information Society” (CRIS)
Our vision of the “Information Society” is grounded in the Right to Communicate, as a means to enhance human rights and to strengthen the social, economic and cultural lives of people and communities.
An “ecology of communication” in order to confront the contamination of the media by globalising powers was called for by the editor of Le Monde Diplomatique Ignacio Ramonet. The French journalist was one of several panellists at the conference ‘Democratising Communications and the Media’. The conference was part of the II World Social Forum, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, between 31 January and 5 February 2002 and was one among several seminars and workshops which looked at communication issues during the forum.
Rev Randy Naylor remembers three great communicators and friends
Jan Kok had been ill for some time, fighting against the cancer consuming his body, and recently we knew that he could not live long in our world. Yet news of his death on February the 8th still arrived as that inevitable cold shock. A friend, publisher, and ecumenical leader had died, too young, at 59. Thirty of those years had been as a communication staff person with the World Council of Churches.
Sean Hawkey
The pre-industrial setting of rural Bangladesh is the location of a high-tech enterprise tipped as a model for communication and poverty reduction for the entire Third World. To see it for myself I followed barefoot guides to a few of the 9,400 villages where Grameen Telecom have set up business with mobile phones, and to question if they can really make any difference to the rural poor. As I walked along a network of muddy paths, looking around at people bent double in paddy fields, I couldn’t help thinking that mobile phones, if they’re not a ridiculous idea, must be very low down the list of priorities in poor rural villages.