Community Radio - User Guide:About
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Acknowledgments
This manual is the outcome of a number of years of practical field work, and the inputs of a vast number of communication and audio/video professionals that its has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last several years. Their advice, tips and generosity in sharing their own experiences and learning has been central to the compilation of the information contained in these pages.
This manual has also been through an extensive process of review on the Solution Exchange and CR India e-discussion lists. Mr.Arvind Kumar, Director (Broadcasting Policy & Legislation), Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India, participated in this discussion by placing the use of this manual in the current context. The members of both lists have been more than generous with their time, and in sharing their vast experience and understanding of community radio technology and audio equipment for the betterment of this manual. Their combined knowledge is a wonderfully rich resource which I have made extensive use of in this volume.
In particular – and without in any way reducing the value of the contributions by the other members of both lists – I would like to extend my gratitude and thanks to the following community members who volunteered their time and energy :
Ashish Bhatnagar, Prasar Bharati (Akashvani and Doordarshan), New Delhi
Ramnath Bhatt, VOICES, Bangalore
Benjamin Grubb, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Douglas Bell, Education Development Center, Bangalore
Aaditeshwar Seth, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jayalakshmi Chittoor, Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS), New Delhi
Michelle Chawla, Nomad India Network, Dahanu (Maharashtra)
Frederick Noronha, BytesForAll, Panaji (Goa)
My thanks also to Shri D.Singaravelu, Dy.Advisor (Wireless), WPC, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, for his key inputs on the technical aspects of the guidelines governing CR policy in India; and to
Choy Arnaldo, who has provided several photographs in this manual illustrating CR experiences from around the world.
A special word of thanks to UNESCO, for understanding and responding to the need for this manual; and specifically to Seema Nair at UNESCO, and Sajan Venniyoor and Gitanjali Sah at Solution Exchange who jointly constituted the editorial team for this manual. I thank them all for their enthusiasm and hard work in rearranging, clipping and pruning this manual into its final shape.
Last – but not least – my thanks and appreciation to my colleagues at Ideosync Media Combine, who helped organize a vast number of resources into something that I could use to write this manual; and to the members of Hevalvaani and Mandaakini Ki Awaaz CR groups in Uttarakhand, who provided valuable feedback on the kind of information that would make this manual usable and accessible to its users.
NRK
New Delhi
November 2007
