Community Media/Events

October
Montreal, October 5, 2009. The International Board of Directors of AMARC is pleased to announce that the tenth World Assembly of Community Radio Broadcasters will be held from 8 to 13 November 2010 in Ciudad de la Plata, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. See: http://asiapacific.amarc.org/index.php?p=shownews&id=1062

July
July 3rd and 4th, 2009 - Maraa will be hosting a two day workshop titled "Conceptual Clarity on Community Radio" with COL as a supporting partner. About 20 volunteers from various non profit agencies from all over Karnataka will be participating.

May
May 8-22 May 2009 - World Summit on the Information Society, International Telecommunications Union, in Geneva, Switzerland. Brought to our attention by Al-Amin Yusuph, of UNESCO-Tanzania.

April

 * April 26-30 - AMARC (World Association of Community Broadcasters) Annual Conference in Ivory Coast, Africa. Commonwealth of Learning will be hosting two 1-day workshops at the conference, in a new initiative called LearnShare HIV AIDS Africa (comprised of community media practitioners and experts in HIV AIDS Treatment Literacy. Partners include COL, International AIDS Society and EcoNews Africa.

March

 * Campus-based educational FM: Developing effective educational programmes for FM - Planning, designing and producing courses for radio. Training workshop 1:

February

 * 16-21 Feb; Training workshop 2: March/April 2009; Location: Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST); Kakamega, Kenya; Trainer-facilitators: Mr Opiyo Makoude and Ms Joyce Njango Mwaura

2008

 * Radio Mange'lete, Kenya Workshop on Organisational Development for 99 women from 33 NGOs, November 3-5, in Kenya. Partners include Commonwealth of Learning, KCOMNET and ECONEWS. See the Pre-Workshop Summary


 * Free Wiki Skills Training workshop for Community Radio / Media Practitioners, Nov. 3-7, 2008, a 5-day online course with facilitator support (Randy Fisher).


 * Caribbean Network of Community Multimedia Centres, 2nd Regional Conference, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, November 17-21. Partners: Commonwealth of Learning & UNESCO. See Workshop Overview.


 * PCF-5 conference in London, UK


 * Jeffrey Town workshop, July 17-19, 2008, with Skype Chat / Q&A from KRUU-FM


 * OER - Learning materials posted from a Community Radio - Governance workshop posted in the Resources section of the WikiEducator Community Node. Donated by Ian Pringle.


 * OER -Lessons Learned from Course Development, from the Commonwealth of Learning.


 * Technical and Content Training Workshop on Community Radio - Nomad & Maara, Maharastra, India (Center for Education and Documentation (Bangalore)