Sunday, October 14, 2007
Emerging journalism
Journalism training is booming in the developing world. David Okwemba of Kenya's The Nation newspaper also helps train journalists. For community-generated podcasts (esp. in Kambu for the radio station) we have envisioned community members conducting interviews and making stories.
Economist story here.
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 10/14/2007 08:36:00 PM 0 comments
Monday, September 24, 2007
New MP3/4 players, Podcasts & Practical Action
Liz reported on an interesting talk at DSA presenting work Practical Action are doing with cheap MP3 players in an Animal Health Programme. They are using Pencil Technologies low-cost MP3 player and bluetooth social software. Practical Action have previously done interesting work with podcasts to support rural communities in Peru.
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Posted by x at 9/24/2007 01:20:00 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Radio scripts
Developing Countries Farm Radio Network includes scripts and other resources for rural radio. We have proposed having students/communities create these, and podcast them or broadcast using a low-power FM transmitter.
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 5/02/2007 10:13:00 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Asterisk VOIP gateway
Asterisk is an open source telephony system. It can be installed on any server, take incoming calls and do various things with them, such as route them internationally via VOIP, record audio, perform messaging functions, and interface with web servers.
Here is an asterisk to skype gateway. This means that phone calls made to the asterisk server can be routed internationally via skype. Conversely, contact with the server via skype could be routed to local phones.
Here is a method of podcasting vis Asterisk. Audio podcasts can be recorded by making a phone call, or by uploading files. They can be listened to by making a phone call, or by accessing audio files on the server.
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 5/01/2007 12:20:00 PM 0 comments