ICT Empowerment Charter Indaba

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ICT Empowerment Charter Indaba

• Presentation by National Community Radio Forum.
• (NCRF)

14 May 2004
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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

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Commercial Feeds organized by the NCRF
Sentech Infrastructure
Contribution from non-SACRIN stations in same
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SACRIN Stations
NCRF Studio, Mobile Studio or Affiliated
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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

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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,PDAs for broadcast
  as a affordable prices.
• community radio workers to be able to use
  computers and ICT to share content real-time for
  efficient news and clips delivery.

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Challenges facing community radio in the new ICT
dispensation.(contid)

• 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. 

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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 )

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ICT Empowerment Charter

• The NCRF welcomes
• 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

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