"El manual de estilo facilita el cumplimiento de los Objetivos, Misión y Visión de la Emisora, teniendo en cuenta los principios y políticas sobre los que se sustenta el hacer de la Emisora Comunitaria Vokaribe Radio. Éste busca dinamizar y guiar las prácticas que componen la apuesta global de
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avanzar en el ejercicio del derecho a la comunicación, a la información y libertad de expresión, como base de la democratización de la comunicación. El manual de estilo de Vokaribe Radio ubica estas guias prácticas a nivel de la localidad y se concreta a través del accionar de la Emisora Comunitaria, lo cual significa ofrecerle a los diversos públicos, colectivos y grupos organizados, comunidades y personas, los mecanismos de participación que les posibiliten expresarse a través de los espacios existentes en Vokaribe Radio." (Página 2)
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"This study examines the challenges of good governance for community radio stations. It does this by exploring how volunteers, managers and members of the Boards of Directors at four community radio stations in Ireland view governance issues. The article finds that there are three key requirements f
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or effective governance in the context of non-profit community radio stations. First, participants described the importance of the Board’s leadership role in acquiring expertise in specific, necessary areas, such as finance, human resources and compliance. The Board was also seen to require a capacity to generate positive relationships between the station and its constituent communities. Second, participants outlined a number of practices that proved useful in achieving positive internal relationships between the Board, the volunteers and management. Third, participants described how a collectively shared ethos of community radio was useful in overcoming potential divisions by generating a shared sense of the organization for its members. The findings highlight the need for further research and analysis of the organizational uniqueness and consequent governance requirements of community media." (Abstract)
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"The quest for competitiveness and popularity of a campus radio station needs to be balanced with the epistemological frames of community radio, which include participation, community ownership, and opposition to hegemonic discourse in the mainstream media as well as independence from political and
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market influences. I contribute to these reflections by highlighting how within this frame ATL FM is facing dilemmas and challenges that have not occupied community media theorists so far. Through content analysis and in-depth interviews, I investigate whether a community radio can serve and encourage the participation of the local community when professional rather than community members exclusively manage it. I propose a conscious incorporation of stakeholders in the community radio business model as a possible solution to this dilemma." (Abstract)
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"The findings show that community radio stations in Anglophone West African countries are owned and controlled by the community; the community radio in Anglophone West African countries is regulated along the broad guidelines that guide broadcasting in those countries; and community radio is used fo
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r various purposes with the central focus on development. The study recommends that Governments should encourage the operation of community radio by granting license to willing communities; avoid undue interference in the operation of the community radio; and big organizations and non-governmental organizations should support community radio financially and logistically and the Nigerian government should commence the licensing of community radio in the country." (Abstract)
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"Revenant sur une longue expérience personnelle en Afrique et en Asie, Birgitte Jallov met en avant les éléments fondamentaux nécessaires à la consolidation [des radios communautaires] dans la durée. Elle dissèque les facteurs qui garantissent la durabilité sociale, organisationnelle et fina
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ncière de ce type de projet et insiste sur la nécessité absolue de leur appropriation au niveau local." (Introduction, page 8)
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"La presente tesis presenta un panorama de la problemática particular de los medios audiovisuales sin fines de lucro y de la radiodifusión comunitaria en particular. Desde la perspectiva de la Economía Política de la Comunicación (EPC) analiza aspectos vinculados a la industria de la radiodifus
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ión sonora y su regulación, el mercado publicitario y las audiencias. Aborda, además, aspectos específicos de la Ley de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual que tienen impacto en el sector sin fines de lucro. Se exponen allí las principales tensiones, divergencias y acuerdos sobre las problemáticas del acceso a las licencias, la sostenibilidad, el trabajo y las incumbencias profesionales históricas de la radio. Por último, propone un análisis más profundo sobre los modos organizativos, administrativos, económicos y de resolución del trabajo sobre 10 emisoras del Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires." (Resumen)
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"Das von uns unter anderem vorgestellte Qualitätsmodell QMB (Qualitätsmanagement in Bürgermedien) beinhaltet beispielsweise die Aufforderung zu definieren, welche Vision den Sender oder das Radio leitet. Wie stellt man sich in der Redaktion „gelungenes Radio“ vor? Eine spannende Frage, die vi
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ele interessante Antworten bringt. Diese Auseinandersetzung mit Qualität endet nicht, Qualität ist nie fertig, denn Qualität verändert sich. Die Verständigung muss also immer wieder stattfinden. Wie haben sich die Rahmenbedingungen (zum Beispiel die Anforderungen und Bedürfnisse der Hörer) verändert? Was bedeutet das für die Definition von gelungenem Radio? Im Praxisbericht zum Modell QMFBplus weist die Autorin Colleen Sanders, darauf hin, dass es zu den vordringlichsten Aufgaben gehört, diesen Verständigungsprozess sinnvoll in den Alltag zu integrieren." (Seite 12)
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Provides indicators of performance along 9 parameters: 1. Content Generation and Programming; 2. Policies and Guidelines; 3. Volunteers; 4. Technology: Access and Management; 5. On-Air Standards of Broadcasting; 6. Governance; 7. Feedback and Grievances; 8. Content Sharing and Networking; 9. Revenue
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Generation and Financial Accountability. Themes such as participation, inclusion, gender, and capacity-building cut across the 9 parameters.
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"Objetivos de este manual: Facilitar herramientas prácticas que aporten a mejorar la gestión y la sostenibilidad de proyectos de comunicación popular a través de medios (especialmente radio, pero también gráfica y TV); Aportar y poner en debate ideas, nociones, conceptos y miradas diversas sob
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re la gestión y sostenibilidad de medios comunitarios en la actualidad y en distintas etapas históricas; Poner en contexto la situación de los medios comunitarios en el escenario más general del sistema de medios argentino, en relación con otras formas de propiedad y de gestión: medios públicos estatales (escolares, universitarios, municipales, provinciales, nacionales), medios públicos no estatales (iglesia católica y pueblos originarios) y privado-empresariales." (Página 4)
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"This publication is a diagnostic tool for a "health check" or assessment of the sustainability of community radio stations. The check includes five areas: mission and governance of a community radio station; management and staffing; infrastructure and finances; programming; and community involvemen
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t. Core aspects of these five areas are succinctly described in the first part of "The healthy community radio station". The second part provides checklists of ten factual questions (which require a simple yes/no answer) and two qualitative questions for each of the five sectors, and proposes combining the "checklist scores" and "judgement scores" to get an overall picture of the "health" of a given radio station. Also included are guidelines for focus group discussions. This publication is highly recommended, both because of its convincing concept of five "pillars" of community radio sustainability and its practical approach." (CAMECO Update November 2013)
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"To be successful and sustainable, community broadcasters need all or at least some of the following: a favourable regulatory framework; comprehensive and meaningful participation mechanisms for the communities they serve; effective management and governance structures. From 18-19 March 2013 communi
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ty broadcasters in Namibia and members of their communities discussed aspects of community participation, governance and station management. The meeting was jointly organised by the media project of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), fesmedia Africa, the Deutsche Welle Akademie and UNESCO. The following is a compilation of the key issues identified in group work and in the input by resource people from South Africa and Kenya." (Introduction)
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"Das von uns unter anderem vorgestellte Qualitätsmodell QMB (Qualitätsmanagement in Bürgermedien) beinhaltet beispielsweise die Aufforderung zu definieren, welche Vision den Sender oder das Radio leitet. Wie stellt man sich in der Redaktion „gelungenes Radio“ vor? Eine spannende Frage, die vi
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ele interessante Antworten bringt. Diese Auseinandersetzung mit Qualität endet nicht, Qualität ist nie fertig, denn Qualität verändert sich. Die Verständigung muss also immer wieder stattfinden. Wie haben sich die Rahmenbedingungen (zum Beispiel die Anforderungen und Bedürfnisse der Hörer) verändert? Was bedeutet das für die Definition von gelungenem Radio? Im Praxisbericht zum Modell QMFBplus weist die Autorin Colleen Sanders, darauf hin, dass es zu den vordringlichsten Aufgaben gehört, diesen Verständigungsprozess sinnvoll in den Alltag zu integrieren." (Seite 14)
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"The Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC) at the Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) assessed the performance of 15 community radios based on the Community Radio Performance Assessment System (CR-PAS) in 2012. The assessment was a first full-fledged test after a successful piloted the
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system in 2011. The radio stations were provided with organization development (OD) support to address to the findings of the pilot assessment. The OD support provided the stations with advice and mentoring on improving their structures, systems and processes to meet the requirement of community radios [...] None of the 15 stations scored enough to be included in ‘model community radio’ category, three qualified as ‘performing’, four as progressing, two as evolving, and six as ‘endeavoring’. If the previous assessment is taken as the baseline then the overall performance of the stations increased - from 44 to 48 - in six months and after the OD input. There has been an upward movement of the stations in terms of categories, as shown by reduction of number of stations in the endeavoring category and increase in the performing category. This suggests that frequent assessments such as this can encourage the stations to improve performance." (Executive summary)
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"Community radio is considered as an intervention strategy of choice for deepening participation and community ownership. Donors have funded a proliferation of community radio projects in the Global South, prompted by stories attesting to the power of radio as a tool for social change. The evidence
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suggests that beyond empowering communities, community radio can catalyse behaviour change and impact positively on wider development outcomes. In practice, the record has been mixed, with sustainability a critical challenge. A recent evaluation found that radio stations created through top-down initiatives tend not to survive when external funding dries up. Where such stations do survive, their purpose often becomes different from what was originally intended. Only in a handful of cases have previously aid-dependent radio stations become sustainable. Informed by insights from practitioners, and evaluation reports and scholarly literature, this article draws some emerging lessons." (Abstract)
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"This Module IV focuses on the particular characteristics of community radio stations and how these different features influence the way one determines programming. The first section examines ownership questions and the different forms of collaboration between the radio station and the community. Th
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e second section of the module provides insight into the preparation of a programming schedule and its importance. In addition, the module contains a sample programming plan, which can be adapted as necessary to help the senior management better structure their programmes, coordinate with the station’s producers and journalists, and manage the expectations of their audience." (Introduction)
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