Top Story - Community Radio

Welcome to the Community Radio Theme site which provides a specific focus on information related to Community Radio on the Soul Beat Africa site.

Radio and Mobile Phones:

Mobile Tech in Community Radio - Still Ad Hoc and One-Off: A State-of-Mobile Report
...is a report on the integration of mobile technology in community radio. It summarises existing projects and success stories, as well as some of the challenges...

HealthText: SMS and Community Radio Activate Health Information Flow in a Kenyan Slum - Kenya
...a pilot project in the Korogocho slum area of Nairobi, Kenya, designed to respond to public health needs and improve disease outbreak preparedness. The project uses sms technology and community mapping to link health workers to a local community radio station...

Applied Research on the Use and Potential for Mobile-friendly Content of Community Media
...a project by the the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) which seeks to analyse the potential for mobile-friendly audio or visual content generated by community media in developing country contexts...

Please send information on your community radio projects to soulbeat@comminit.com