"The World Bank should take a more active role in policy and regulatory activities targeting the broadcasting sector because: broadcasting can have a significant part to play in the fight to reduce global poverty; convergence of information and communications technologies (ICT) is allowing broadcast
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services to be provided over telecommunications networks and internet services to use broadcast systems; the broadcast component of the convergent ICT sector is a significant economic sector; reform of the broadcast sector can have a significant development impact; few other international development players are active in the broadcast reform arena; traditional reticence to address a sector that raises political sensitivities appears overblown. The Bank Group’s potential activities in the sector might include: basic reform, involving the opening up of the broadcast sector to private and community involvement, and deconcentrating private media ownership; convergence regulation, involving the harmonization and integration of regulations covering broadcast and telecommunications infrastructure; support for community radio stations to improve access for the poor to the tools of information and communications technologies; pilot projects involving digital television to assess the potential of broadcasting as a tool to widen access to the internet." (Executive summary, page ix)
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"This working paper tells the story of the growth of independent radio for small enterprises in Uganda, and Ghana. It describes how the radio program Nekolera Gyange (I Run My Own Business) was initiated, how it engages and helps small enterprise listeners, and how it achieved commercial viability.
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The paper explains how the concept has been transferred to rural Uganda and to Ghana, and the adaptations that were made along the way. In order to assist others in initiating similar programs, the paper presents lessons learned and FIT strategy for supporting the development of more commercial SE radio programs around the world.." (Page vii)
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"The most ambitious on-site training program sponsored in Africa by the Federal Republic of Germany ran from 1964 to 1970 on the premises of the Ethiopian Broadcasting Service in Addis Ababa. It offered a series of full-time radio courses, each lasting a whole year." (Page 290)
"L'auteur passe en revue l'activité de certains pays développés dans le domaine de l'assistance aux pays en voie de développement en matière de développement des moyens d'information — Création d'une commission d'assistance aux pays en voie de développement au sein du Westdeutscher Rundfun
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k — Les programmes de formation du W.D.R. — Durée de la formation — Les résultats — Le système des jumelages." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 696, topic code 222)
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"Radio in Africa — The considerable contribution of radio — The diversity of languages — The cost of radio receivers and the lack of repair facilities — Shortage of trained personnel — Difficulties of transmission — The importance of aid and cooperation with the other developing and deve
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loped nations." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 350, topic code 210.0)
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"The arrival of the NAEB (National Association of Educational Broadcasters) in the Sudan — Projects — Commercial radio reaches Khartoum." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1003, topic code 422)