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WSSD 2002 Radio Voix Sans Frontiers (VSF) Project

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The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) community radio broadcast effort is a project of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (known by its French acronym AMARC), as part of its ongoing Radio Voix Sans Frontieres (VSF), or "Radio Voices Without Frontiers" initiative. The WSSD VSF project is bringing together 30 community radio producers from around Africa (including Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Mali, Togo, the Gambia and South Africa), and others from North and Latin America and Europe, in Johannesburg to produce 10 days of live radio programming from August 26 to September 4, 2002.
Communication Strategies

There will be 5 hours of live programming each day - 1 hour in French, 2 hours in English, 1 hour in Portuguese, and 1 hour in Spanish. The feeds will provide in-depth community radio coverage of sustainable development issues, and will be distributed live via satellite and Internet platforms to community radio listeners around Africa and the world. Two hundred AMARC Africa stations will re-broadcast the feeds via the WorldSpace digital satellite audio platform. Thirty-two NCRF Member stations in South Africa belonging to the South African Community Radio Information Network (SACRIN) satellite service will carry the daily radio feeds via a Sentech digital satellite audio channel. Internationally, stations and listeners may listen to the audio on the Internet via the AMARC VSF site.


A Latin American community radio satellite audio network based in Quito, Ecuador, called ALER, will take Portuguese- and Spanish-language audio files from the VSF site for satellite distribution to dozens of community radio stations in Central and South America.


For the WSSD broadcast, programmes will be produced and broadcast from the NCRF studios in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, and from remote studios at the sites of the Civil Society Global People's Forum, the official UN Summit, and the Ubuntu Village.

Development Issues

Environment.

Key Points

AMARC Africa hopes that sustainable development will be fostered by a consensus being reached among governments, civil society, NGOs, and grassroots organisations. Community radio enables communities to be a part of this process.

Partners

National Community Radio Forum (NCRF), The Waag Society, the Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE), IndyMedia, Diversity Radio, the Friends of the Earth's Radio Earth Summit project, Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ), Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), AIESEC, Heinrich Boll Stiftung South Africa (HBSSA), CUSO Canada, Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NIZA), Jowsco, Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT), GCIS, Department of Communications (DoC), Civil Society Secretariat, ABC Ulwazi, africapulse.org, Women'snet, the South African NGO Coalition (SANGOCO), the Democracy Radio Project at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Mediaworks, and the Worker's World Radio project.

Sources

AMARC Media Release August 19, 2002 "Grassroots Radios Gear Up for AMARC 'Voix Sans Frontieres' (VSF) Global Broadcasts from Johannesburg Earth Summit".