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Freedom Fone Advocacy and User Guide

freedomfone (2012), 134 pp.

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The Message Matrix: A Participatory Programme Design Tool

Charles Simbi

In: Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America

Ian Pringle, Ekta Mittal, Mónica Valdés (eds.)

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), pp. 99-111

"The message matrix facilitates local stakeholder groups and community members to take an active, empowered role in content development for an educational communication programme. The method enables active participation of target audiences and stakeholder groups in the identification, analysis and r ... more

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Who is the Community in Community Radio?

Savita Bailur

Economic & Political Weekly, volume 47, issue 17 (2012), pp. 92-99

"Despite the enthusiasm for community-owned radio, a movement which has been steadily gaining pace since the implementation of new legislation of 2006, we are yet to find an understanding of who the community is in community radio. Through an extended case study, this analysis shows how “community ... more

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Getting it Right: A Journalists’ Guide to Conducting Community Radio Debate

Hakeem Abdul Buza

Kampala: Panos Eastern Africa (2012), viii, 39 pp.

"Panos is working with 20 radio stations across Uganda to give voice to the voiceless through facilitating debate. It isagainst this background that Panos Eastern Africa (PEA) has developed this Guide to help our partner radio stations and journalists improve the quality of their debate and hope it ... more

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Collaborative Efforts: An Exploratory Study of Citizen Media in China

Lei Guo

Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 135-155

"In the field of citizen media research, considerably less attention has been paid to countries other than the US and those in Western Europe. This article is a case study that focuses on citizen media in Beijing – specifically, the Dazhalan [participatory video] project. Combining in-depth interv ... more

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Freedomfone

freedomfone (2011), 117 pp.

"Freedom Fone allows anyone with a phone to access or contribute information on a specific issue 24 hours a day and seven days a week. It takes advantage of audio and text to address language and literacy barriers when reaching out to marginalised audiences that don't have access to other media. No ... more

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Pera Natin ‘To! Citizen Action for Good Governance

Red Batario (ed.)

Quezon City: Philippine Public Transparency Reporting Project (PPTRP) (2011), 154 pp.

"The starting point of PPTRP has been that real and lasting transparency and accountability are best built from the ground up piece by piece and by ordinary people taking their responsibilities as citizens seriously. It is one of the reasons we subtitled the project and website “Pera Natin ‘to!� ... �� (It’s Our Money!). We wanted to help build public ownership in the issue. Our concern was – and remains still today – that changes introduced at the top by one administration – can so easily be taken away by another unless that change is deeply rooted in the ground and in its people. So we believed- and still believe – that real sustainable change in governance comes only from active and continual participation of citizens. It needs action and engagement at both the national and local level. It needs groups, sectors and communities finding new ways of coming and working together to develop new ideas and build new constituencies and avenues for change. It needs to involve and energise all those hundreds of thousands of honest and professional civil servants across the country who for way too long have quietly despaired going to work each day given the failure of leadership in their own departments and agencies. All this required and still requires a combined response that uses new thinking and approaches. It required first and foremost the start of a public literacy campaign around public finances since citizens cannot ever hope to adequately monitor or engage in things that they don’t understand. So it was that we built our project equally around information, education, training, capacity building, networking, advocacy and campaigns. So it was that we worked with people’s organizations, civil society groups, media and ordinary members of the public at one and the same time. We figured that everybody had a role to play in building and securing transparency and accountability – and so everybody should get involved. We started work on a website full of the basics – (www.transparencyreporting.net) accessible and easy to understand information about all aspects of public finance. We assumed little – partly because we knew little ourselves and were learning on the job as we went. We wrote, commissioned and edited material designed to give readers a sense of understanding about how public finances, systems and cycles worked and what kind of issues and problems there were. We tried to identify how and where money was raised and how it was allocated and spent and why and by whom. Invariably it comes down to money. If you can follow the money, you can find the problems and perhaps even help suggest some solutions. We developed training modules too – modules aimed equally at journalists and activists and ordinary members of the public. And we toured around the Philippines going north and as far south as Tawi-Tawi where we were told few groups ever venture. We encouraged people to report allegations of corruption – but equally we sought out instances of where government was working well and deserved highlighting. It is easy to be negative – but far better to be critically constructive. We received many more allegations than we could investigate – in large part because sources were scared even to follow up and meet with us in confidence. Protection for whistle-blowers remains very much a pressing issue today that needs sorting ... While all projects must by necessity always remain above the political fray, we were naturally delighted that as things turned out, the new incoming administration made improving transparency and accountability a primary goal. When an initiative finds itself working in support of government policy, it is always easier. So we were delighted to see the issue of political abuse of public projects taken up as were the appointment of some leading proponents of open government to key positions in the administration. We were very fortunate also for the chance to work closely with officials in several key departments and on various initiatives linked to the national budget. [...] Perhaps one key achievement we might be remembered for, alongside the website which will remain as hopefully a useful resource for those wanting to learn more about public sector finances -- is having set up four local citizen watchdog groups that demonstrate how easy and important it is for ordinary people to get involved and play their part. We hope more groups can follow their lead. People power needs to be much more than a slogan and become a way of life." (Introduction, page 16-19) more

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Die Zukunft der Bürgerbeteiligung: Herausforderungen -Trends - Projekte

Marion Stock (Red.)

Bonn: Stiftung Mitarbeit (2011), 292 pp.

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Generating Genuine Demand for Accountability Through Communication: A Trainer's Guide

Anne-Katrin Arnold, Helen Garcia

Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2011), viii, 62 pp.

"This guide is designed for development practitioners in donor organizations, governments, and civil society, who are setting up capacity-building programs for promoting sustainable accountability and governance reform. A conceptual framework for communication and accountability provides trainers wi ... more

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Accountability Through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action

Sina Odugbemi, Taeku Lee (eds.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xxv, 507 pp.

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Community Media Citizen’s Debate: Handbook for the Community Media Sector and Civil Society Institutions

Münster: European Youth4Media Network (2011), 51 pp.

"Our association is already five years old. During those five years we’ve managed to achieve a lot. Above all, we’ve built a structure which allows us to develop futher. In addition, we’ve managed to transfer our mission and common goals onto concrete actions and programs. For five years we’ ... more

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Thai Public Broadcasting Service: Towards Building a Civic-Minded Society

Palphol Rodloytuk

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC); Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (2011), 190 pp.

"This book documents the researcher's effort to gain insights on how Thailand's public broadcaster Thai Public Broadcasting Service strategised its civil-society strengthening mechanisms, including creating a television programme called 'TV Jor Nuer', that is produced by and for the citizen journali ... more

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Driving Change Through Rural Radio Debate in Uganda

Kampala: Panos Eastern Africa (2011), 100 pp.

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All Together Now: Oral Testimony, Theatre, Media, Debate. How One Community’s Concerns Reached a National Audience

Siobhan Warrington, Sahar Ali, Olivia Bennett

London: Panos London (2011), 16 pp.

"This case study demonstrates Panos’s integrated approach to communication for development: combining first person testimony, relationship-building, inclusive dialogue and working with the mainstream media so that the voices of people most affected by development issues contribute to national-leve ... more

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Community MHz: Assessing Community Radio Performance in Nepal. A Pilot Assessment of 15 Stations

Raghu Mainali (coord.)

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2011), 124 pp.

"This document reports on the pilot assessment of 15 community radio stations – or of radios that claim to be community radios – based on the Community Radio Performance Assessment System (CR-PAS) developed by the Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC) / Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists ( ... more

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Community Media and the Rearticulation of State-Civil Society Relations in Venezuela

Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Gisela C. Gil-Egui

Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 4, issue 3 (2011), pp. 250-274

"This article critically examines the role of community media movements in articulating state-Civil society relations in the establishment of a popular radical democracy in Venezuela. We employ institutional analysis and a frame-alignment approach to understand how community and alternative media (C ... more

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Cambodian Communication Review 2011

Phnom Penh: Royal University of Phnom Penh, Department of Media & Communication, Cambodia Communication Institut (2011), 66 pp.

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Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Partizipation im indischen Community Radio

Julia Fröhlich

Köln: Universität Köln, Magisterarbeit (2011), 94 pp.

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Chinas digitale Revolution: Politische Kommunikation in der virtuellen Welt

Regina Edelbauer

KAS Auslandsinformationen, issue 6 (2010), pp. 89-102

"Das chinesische Festland zählte im Sommer 2009 338 Millionen Internetanwender. Dies bezieht sich auf diejenigen „User", die über sechs Jahre alt sind und sich in den letzten sechs Monaten im Internet einloggten. Das übertrifft die 312 Millionen „Worldwideweb"-Nutzer der Europäischen Union u ... more

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Voces y sonoridades de un proceso ciudadano: Sistematización de una experiencia social
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María Orlanda Aristizábal, Eduardo Gutiérrez et al.

Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura (2010), 254 pp.

"El programa ‘Radios Ciudadanas’ es liderado por la Dirección de Comunicaciones del Ministerio de Cultura y su objetivo es impulsar la democracia, la participación ciudadana y la diversidad cultural, por medio de la creación y consolidación de franjas de análisis y opinión, en las radios c ... more

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Voces y sonoridades de un proceso ciudadano: Sistematización de una experiencia social
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