Let’s Celebrate Communities Power ‘Radio’

Organisers: Jadeite Solutions & DEF’s CDREP 2.0
Date: 23rd October 2021 – 13th November 2021 (Each Saturday)

Let’s Celebrate Communities Power ‘Radio’
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Background

Community Radios (CRs), the low-tech information dissemination tool, act as the voice of rural and marginalised communities. In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, community radio stations ‘CRs’ have become the most popular and effective medium for information dissemination to a larger audience, specifically in marginalised and rural regions.

In an effort to recognise the value of CR stations during this pandemic, Jadeite Solutions and Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) under CDREP 2.0 programme in collaboration with CR stations are organising series of online event from 23rd October 2021 – 13th November 2021 to address the issues of information access and communicative equity, creation of a level playing field in the infrastructural domain, provision of public funding for community media, and forging enabling policy formulations to support these measures.

Objectives

  • Launch of the Booklet – Community Radio in India: Unsung heroes in the time of COVID-19
  • Bringing the voices of CR stations sharing their experiences and challenges during the pandemic
  • Strategies to reaching out wider audience and dealing with the second wave of COVID
  • Exploring the solutions to sustain the CR stations in time of crisis

About the book

This booklet comprises the experiences of community radio stations from India who have stepped forward to help local communities living farthest regions in loneliness, build awareness, demolish fake news and bringing awareness about social distancing during the ongoing pandemic in form of case stories. This publication attempts to understand the commonalities; differences & uniqueness of the programmes broadcasted by CR stations. This publication is dedicated to all CR stations and to the countless unknown faces behind the CR stations who have worked tirelessly in order to bring relevant information timely to the people who are deprived of information in local language and dialect.

Click here to read the book

Author: Ritu Srivastava, Chair, IEEE Working Group IGSA and Director, Jadeite Solutions

Day 1: 23rd October 2021

Session 1: Releasing the booklet, Community Radio in India: Unsung heroes in the time of COVID-19

Time: 4.00 pm to 4.45 pm (45 minutes)

Panelists: 

  1. Prof. Vinod Pavarala, UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad
  2. Mr. Osama Manzar, Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
  3. Mr. Mohd. Niyaz, Founder & Station Head, Radio Bulbul
  4. Ms. Gayathri Usman, Station Head, Kadal Osai
  5. Ms. Ritu Srivastava, Author & Director, Jadeite Solutions

Moderator: Madanmohan Rao, Research Director, YourStory Media; BIG APC’s Innovation Officer 

15 Minutes Break

Session 2: Voices of CR stations in North India: Experiences & Challenges

Time: 5.00 pm to 5.45 pm (45 minutes)

  1. Ms. Nitika Kakkar, Senior Program Manager, SMART
  2. Ms. Barsha Chabaria, Station Head, Salaam Namaste
  3. Mr. Rakesh Kumar Pandey, CEO, Shramik Bharti, Waqt ki Awaaz Radio
  4. Ms. Pooja O. Murada, Head, Alfaz-e-Mewat FM 

Moderator: Ms. Sania Farooqui, Journalist & Host: The Sania Farooqui Show 

Summarising the Day (15 minutes) 

Zoom Link : Click here

Day 2: 30th October 2021

Session 1: Voices of CR Stations in Western India: Experiences & Challenges

Time: 4.00 pm to 4.45 pm (45 minutes) 

Panelists: 

  1. Mr. Sachin, RJ, Mann Deshi Tarang Vahini
  2. Sis. Krishna, Production Head, Radio Madhuban 90.4 FM
  3. Ms. Neeta Tai Joshi, Station Head, Yeralavani

Moderator: Ravi Guria, Media Consultant and Filmmaker

Session 2: Voices of CR Stations in Eastern India: Experiences & Challenges

Time: 5.00 pm to 5.45 pm (45 minutes)

  1. Mr. Mohd Niyaz, Founder & Station Head, Radio Bulbul
  2. Dr. Shisir Kumar Das, Director, Radio Surabhi
  3. Mr. Bhaskar Bhuyan, Coordinator, Radio Brahmaputra
  4. Father Paul, Station Head, Radio Salesian 

Summarising the Day (15 minutes)

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Day 3: 6th November 2021

Session 1: Voices of CR Stations in Southern India: Experiences & Challenges

Time: 4.00 pm to 4.45 pm (45 minutes)

Panelists:

  1. Mr. Mukesh Mohankumar, Station Head, Radio Rathinavani
  2. Mr. Father Bijo, Station Head, Radio Mattoli
  3. Ms. Gayathri Usman, Station Head, Kadal Osai
  4. Father Peter, Station Head, Radio Benziger

Moderator: Ms. Venu Arora, Co-Founder, IdeoSync

Session 2: Sustaining the CR in times of COVID

Time: 5.00 pm to 5.45 pm (45 minutes)

Panellists:

  1. Mr. N.A Shah Ansari, Founder, Radio Namaskar
  2. Ms. Ekta Mittal, Media Practitioner and Researcher, Maraa
  3. Ms. Venu Arora, Co-Founder, IdeoSync
  4. Ms. Pooja O. Murada, Head, Alfaz-e-Mewat FM

Moderator: Dr. Sarbani Banerjee Belur, Asia Regional Coordinator, Association for Progressive Communications (APC) 

Summarising the Day (15 minutes)

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Day 4: 13th November 2021

Session 1: Frugal innovations for sustaining CR stations

Time: 4.00 pm to 4.45 pm (45 minutes)

Panelists:

  1. Ms. Jane Coffin, Senior Vice President, Internet Growth, ISOC
  2. Mr. Osama Manzar, Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
  3. Mr. Sarbani Banerjee Belur, Asia Regional Coordinator, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
  4. Ms. Ritu Srivastava, Author & Director, Jadeite Solutions

Moderator: Mr. Ravi Guria, Media Consultant and Filmmaker

Session 2: Policy shift to recognize CR stations as the last-mile information providers

Time: 5.00 pm to 5.45 pm (45 minutes)

  1. Prof. Vinod Pavarala, UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad
  2. Mr. Osama Manzar, Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
  3. Ms. Archana Kapoor, Founder, Radio Mewat
  4. Ms. Ritu Srivastava, Author & Director, Jadeite Solutions

Moderator: Dr. Syed S. Kazi, Deputy Director, DEF 

Closing the event (15 minutes)

Zoom Link : Click here

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