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ICT Empowerment Charter Indaba

ICT Empowerment Charter Indaba. Presentation by National Community Radio Forum. (NCRF) . 14 May 2004 . ICT Charter Presentation by NCRF. Background - NCRF vision 2005 ICT tools for community development particular for community radio .

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ICT Empowerment Charter Indaba

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  1. ICT Empowerment Charter Indaba Presentation by National Community Radio Forum. (NCRF) 14 May 2004

  2. ICT Charter Presentation by NCRF. • Background - NCRF vision 2005 • ICT tools for community development particular for community radio. • than 80% of stations have a satellite receiver facility, a computer for office use, • ICT for edit and broadcasting services • connectivity for the community radio station to talk to each other • special services on signal distribution and telephony • Capacity building • e-readiness for the community media • indicators to measure the use of ICT at all levels

  3. Commercial Feeds organized by the NCRF Sentech Infrastructure Contribution from non-SACRIN stations in same province 2 Local Broadcast ((( ))) 7 1 5 Local Sources Local Sources 3 4 Codec Codec Out Mixer In Out Mixer In Codec 6 SACRIN Stations NCRF Studio, Mobile Studio or Affiliated Commercial Setup

  4. Challenges facing community radio in South Africa • The use of our SACRIN (South African Community Radio Information Network), the satellite project used by community radio stations to broadcast. • Telephony • Signal Distribution • ICT skills • E readiness • Inter connectivity and interoperability • Financing and Income generating model

  5. Challenges facing community radio in the new ICT dispensation. • sustainable usage of ICT tools by stations to enhance • information-gathering, • programme production, • programme-sharing amongst all. • Engage in positive debate on affordable, • cost-effective methods to ensure proper terrestrial coverage for community radio especially on rural areas. • The ability to use cell phone,PDA’s for broadcast as a affordable prices. • community radio workers to be able to use computers and ICT to share content real-timefor efficient news and clips delivery.

  6. Challenges facing community radio in the new ICT dispensation.(conti’d) • Comes to terms with the reality that, talk is enough and we need to focus on implementation to close the digital divide. • Whose choice is it? The debate on the open source Vs proprietary software is still on – Is “Open choice” the choice for community ICT media? • Support the easy affordable softwares aimed at community media project for development and promoting our languages for easy understanding. (tenslations software) • audience research software to be usable to inform radio audience research • That will also included subsidized or specialised high-speed internet connectivity for the rural communities for ICT community development.

  7. ICT Charter – Briging the Divide • Will the ICT Charter be able to define clearly “digital divide”? • Will the charter be able to debate from the community ICT development perspective? • Creating ICT programme as educational programme educating communities to brige the divide • Expected indicators from this charter • increase of human resource skill base on the ground • low cost connectivity • freedom of movement in the spectrum • community participation in at all levels • 50 % of CSI into Community Media Inverstment (e.g MDDA ,income generating programmes )

  8. ICT Empowerment Charter • The NCRF welcome’s • BEE • ICT empowerment Charter • BEE ICT empowerment charter • on condition that it will increase the use of ICT ,ownership and control ,community participation,promotion of under service areas www.ncrf.org.za

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