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  • Knowledge, Change And Community - by Anuradha Vittachi
    http://www.mediachannel.org/views/oped/vittachi.shtml
     Communication is power and technology is providing that power. But what is critical, says Anuradha Vittachi, co-founder of oneworld.net , is that those who are in a position to mediate communication, that is, the mass media and development agencies, must be willing to release some of the control. They must be willing to allow that communication to take whatever direction it wants.
    In this article, adapted from a speech Vittachi delivered at the United Nations on March 23, 2000, she points out that neither the media nor development experts can control what happens in the conversations that the Internet and cheap rural phones are making possible. The people with the computers and the phones choose to whom they want to speak and about what. Autonomy is power. Knowledge is power too — finding out from another group or person in the same situation how they dealt with a problem means not having to reinvent the wheel. The role of the mediators, whom Vittachi calls the "knowledge-brokers," should be to help create connections between people, to create a sense of connectedness that allows and enables people to learn from and about each other.

  • Reality Bytes - by John Plunkett
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4470382,00.html
     http://tv.oneworld.net/
     Serious "reality" addicts can look to OneWorld TV, part of the global nonprofit organisation, One World International, for inspiration in the television broadcast medium. The site features short, Video Nation-style contributions from film-makers, both amateur and professional, from around the world. Subjects range from AIDS and global warming to the conflict in the Middle East and the plight of child gold miners in Burkina Faso. OneWorld TV also allows site visitors to upload their own films to the site, either beginning new strands or adding to other people's stories. All they need is a camcorder and a story to tell. Each "mini-documentary" is linked to a variety of related clips, allowing users to follow the story and the characters they are most interested in from beginning to end. And with a potentially worldwide team of would-be film-makers to draw from, OneWorld is positioning itself as a constantly evolving window on some of the most serious issues facing the world today. "Our aim was to reinvent television for the Web," explains OneWorld International director, Peter Armstrong, who has 20 years' experience of making documentaries for the BBC. "There is no point in trying to broadcast 30-minute documentaries over the Web, and we didn't just want to drop clips into a database, which would have been really boring. Because it's interactive, people can take the story in whichever direction they want, and can even become part of the storytelling process themselves."
    OneWorld International has the support of more than 1,250 partner non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the globe. Its backers include Oxfam, Greenpeace, UNICEF, the Rockefeller Foundation, BT and the Guardian. It has 120 staff in 12 national headquarters and aims "to harness the democratic potential of the Internet to promote sustainable development and human rights."
    Notable Feature(s): The OneWorldTV site that is challenging the shape and content of television, making it an interactive form of communication, an actual discussion.

  • Voices for Change - Rural Women and Communication - Prepared by Silvia Balit
    http://www.fao.org/docrep/X2550E/X2550E00.htm
     In today's climate of political and socio-economic change, communication can play a decisive role in promoting food security and rural development. By fostering a dialogue between rural people and other sectors of society, communication processes can empower both women and men to provide information and knowledge as a basis for change and innovation. They can enable people to take decisions concerning their own livelihood and thereby increase their overall involvement in development. More specifically, gender-sensitive communication processes can give rural women a voice to advocate changes in policies, attitudes and social behaviour or customs that negatively affect them.
    Contact Information:
    Director, Information Division
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
    00100 Rome
    Italy

  • Advocacy video: Producing change - a report by Karen M. Hirsch
    http://www.benton.org/publibrary/practice/features/advocacyvideo.html
     This report from the Benton Foundation makes the case strongly for the efficacy of video in effecting real social change. "Advocacy programming is created out of the desire to improve society. It is made to provide housing for the homeless, to protect someone from AIDS, to stop a bulldozer from destroying a forest. A camera can't build a house and a videotape can't stop a chainsaw, but people using video can—and do. Moving pictures convey the reality of social issues like nothing else, and as video technology has become widely available, activists throughout the world have discovered one of their most valuable tools."
    Notable Feature(s): The report is part of a series called Strategic Communications for Nonprofits. For more information write:
    The Center for Strategic Communications
    72 Spring Street, Suite 208
    New York, NY 10012
    212.965.0180
    E-mail: cscinfo@pipeline.com
    Valuable directory of advocacy video contacts.
    Contact Information:
    Benton Foundation
    1625 K Street, NW
    Washington, DC   20006
    USA
    Telephone: 202.638.5770   Fax: 202.638.5771
    Email: benton@benton.org

  • Camcorders in Activists' Hands: Tools for Change - by Sara Stuart
    http://www.mediarights.org/news/article.php?art_id=00020
     Activists often do not have the resources or the time to produce, edit, and distribute documentaries. However, they continue to use video cameras in their struggles for change. Activists have found that video can influence behavior and keep the opposition on their toes. They want to demonstrate to their adversaries that they can reach a large audience with powerful video images. Video is a potent tool for advancing campaigns and building social movements. This article illustrates how a video camera can be a valuable, non-violent tool.
    Contact Information:
    Media Rights
    104 W. 14th St., 4th Floor
    New York, NY   10011
    Telephone: 646.230.6288  

  • Can What Counts be Counted? OR Dancing the Measures of Transformation - by Heather Wood Ion
    http://www.givingspace.org/papers/may2002/Heather1.doc
     http://www.givingspace.org/
     Heather Wood Ion presented this paper at a GivingSpace Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico in May 2002. Its relevance to foundation practice, philanthropy, and citizen sector initiative is current, practical, and important.
    Much of the confusion of using traditional accounting measures stems from the fact that they measure effectiveness: that is the accuracy or utility of the particular tool or intervention. They do not measure efficacy, the production of a desired effect, which is a measure of change. Accounting measures look at a point not at a process, and transformation is a process not a point.

    Notable Feature(s): See the Uplift Academy to know more about Giving Space programs and issues discussed in Santa Fe and elsewhere since then, for example, the Minutes of a meeting at Stanford in May 2004: Can We Help Google Create a Better World? For more information contact Tom Munnecke, founder, at tom@givingspace.org.
    Contact Information:
    Heather Wood Ion, Tales of Transformation Theme Editor
    Email: tales@givingspace.org

  • Communication for Change: an in-depth study from MediaChannel.org
    http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/development/
     As coalitions around the world demand that sustainable development take priority over globalization, MediaChannel affiliates are using broadcast media to find local solutions to economic, political and social needs. This special report includes:
    • A Rockefeller Foundation position paper on communication in development
    • A report from the Deputy Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority on the need for local programming
    • Senegal's Youth Radio
    • Airways of Peace in Cambodia
    • Feminist broadcasting in Indonesia
    • Australian Media vs. Aboriginal People
    • Broadcasting for children's rights-from UNICEF
    • List of MediaChannel affiliates communicating for change

    Notable Feature(s): Subscribe to weekly MediaChannel email updates; in-depth report on AIDS and the media.
    Contact Information:
    Danny Schechter, Executive Editor
    MediaChananel
    Email: danny@mediachannel.org
    editor@mediachannel.org

  • Crackling static - by Ian Pringle
    http://www.cmsouthasia.net/default.asp?DocID=187&channelId=58&Tablename=Document
     This article looks at community radio broadcast in South Asia. Many community radio stations have been and still are pirate and proscribed - some quietly, some not. Some are institutionally sponsored, existing within a perceived safe structure - either a state/public broadcaster or university. Others are fully sanctioned independent broadcasters. In their relationships with the law, some are ignored and others harassed. As a limited resource with vast potential, radio has always been of special interest to legal systems and governments. Most community radios exist within a national legal framework that licenses them and to varying degrees, regulates and limits what they do.
    Contact Information:
    Email: voices@vsnl.com

  • Different Voices
    http://www.twiza.demon.co.uk/differentvoices/index.htm
     Different Voices is an on-line information and media network, a not-for-profit organisation promoting media access for all, especially through use of the Internet. As a OneWorld Net partner, Different Voices is part of a worldwide community working for justice and a voice for all peoples.
    Notable Feature(s): Comprehensive Directory of media and media training contacts; access to BBC Mentor Project designed to provide greater access for students from diverse sections of the community to the BBC and to broadcasting generally.
    Contact Information:
    Different Voices
    21 Hilary Avenue
    Mitcham   CR4 2LA
    UK Fax: +44 20 8648 8344
    Email: voices@twiza.demon.co.uk

  • LIFE LESSONS: How soap operas can change the world - by Hanna Rosin
    http://www.changemakers.net/library/temp/newyorkersoapoperas.cfm
     This New Yorker article details the operations and impact of a radio project pioneered and spread around the world by Miguel Sabido, a Mexican television producer.

  • Making Waves: Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change
    http://www.rockfound.org/display.asp?context=1&Collection=1&DocID=420
     http://www.rockfound.org/Documents/421/makingwaves.pdf
     This Rockefeller report (published in March 2001) on some of the most innovative experiments in participatory communication worldwide details many examples of community radio reaching marginalized people and villages. Through 50 case studies written by Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, Making Waves examines innovative communication for social change projects from African, Latin American and Asian regions. With useful information on the background and context of issues addressed, the report provides insightful analyses on aspects of social change, the medium and methods used as well as their constraints. With data organized by year, medium and country, the report is informative to academics and practitioners alike.
    • Radio Sutatenza - Colombia
    • Miners' Radio Stations - Bolivia
    • Radio Huayacocotla - Mexico
    • Radio Quillabamba - Peru
    • CESPAC - Peru
    • PRODERITH - Mexico Teatro Kerigma - Colombia
    • Teatro La Fragua - Honduras
    • Video SEWA - India
    • Kayapo Video - Brazil
    • TV Maxambomba - Brazil
    • Radio Margaritas - Mexico
    • Aarohan Street Theatre - Nepal
    • CESPA - Mali
    • Community Audio Towers - Philippines
    • Kothmale Community Radio - Sri Lanka
    • Teatro Trono - Bolivia
    • Wan Smolbag - Vanuatu, Solomon Islands
    • La Voz de la Comunidad - Guatemala
    • Labor News Production - Korea
    • Tambuli - Philippines
    • Popular Theatre - Nigeria
    • Radio Izcanal - El Salvador
    • Soul City - South Africa
    • Action Health - Nigeria
    • EcoNews Africa - Regional, Africa
    • Nalamdana - India
    • Radio Zibonele - South Africa
    • Televisión Serrana - Cuba
    • Bush Radio - South Africa
    • Community Media Network - Kenya
    • Radio Chaguarurco - Ecuador
    • Radio Gune Yi - Senegal
    • Radio Kwizera - Tanzania
    • Púlsar - Regional, Latin America
    • Moutse Community Radio - South Africa
    • Radio Sagarmatha - Nepal
    • Chiapas Media Project - Mexico
    • Gasaleka & Mamelodi Telecentres - South Africa
    • Grameen Village Phone - Bangladesh
    • Kiritimati Radio - Republic of Kiribati
    • Maneno Mengi - Tanzania
    • Nutzij - Guatemala
    • Radio Mampita & Magneva - Madagascar
    • InfoDes - Peru
    • The Lilac Tent - Bolivia
    • Video & Community Dreams - Egypt
    • Village Knowledge Centres - India
    • Local Radio Network - Indonesia
    • Nakaseke Telecentre - Uganda

    Notable Feature(s): PDF and Word versions of the report online.
    Contact Information:
    Brian Byrd
    The Rockefeller Foundation
    420 Fifth Avenue
    New York, NY   10019
    USA
    Telephone: 212.852.8412  
    Email: bbyrd@rockfound.org

  • Message from the Village - Anuradha Vittachi, Kanchana Abhayapala Memorial Lecture, Sri Lanka, December 2002
    http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/51114/1/?PrintableVersion=enabled
     http://www.oneworld.net/
     An important address on the many ways in which media can serve to improve and protect human rights for all.
    There are so many ways now to support the people who live at the sharp end of most of these tragedies. We can use ICDs (short for devices for Information and Communication for Development) to help them secure their human rights by helping them to tell their own stories far and wide. And we must do it – because it is these, the most vulnerable people in the world, who have the world's most important stories to tell. They need to tell their stories for their sake, because it is only after their truths are told, and HEARD, that their healing can begin. And also for OUR sake. In an article about Kanchana Abhayapala in the Sunday Island, Jehan Perera said: 'Perhaps in order to become different we need to be personally affected in a manner that sears the soul.' That, really, is the ultimate purpose of our media technology. Not to transmit facts, but for us - the privileged - who have our hands on the levers of power and yet who live far away from the worst of the suffering, to be 'seared in our souls'. Then and only then will we finally feel that we are all equal, all members of one connected humankind.

    Contact Information:
    Email: justice@oneworld.net

  • Online Newspaper Shakes Up Korean Politics - by Howard F. French
    http://www.changemakers.net/library/temp/nytimes030603.cfm
     http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4591009,00.html
     This March 2003 New York Times article profiles the innovative online newspaper - OhMyNews - whose unusual concept from the beginning has been to rely mostly on contributions from ordinary readers all over the country, who send dispatches about everything from local happenings and personal musings to national politics. Only 20 percent of the paper each day is written by staff journalists. So far, a computer check shows, there have been more than 10,000 other bylines in its first three years. According to Mr. Oh, "The concept of our paper is that all citizens can participate." That concept translates to 23,000 citizen reporters ensuring that the news is broad and targeted at community interests.
    Notable Feature(s): The Korean language site for OhMyNews; send mail to OhMyNews: ohmynews@ohmynews.com; a March 2003 BBC article on Oh Yeon-ho's Web-based newspaper; another article on OhMyNews.
    Contact Information:
    Oh Yeon-ho
    OhMyNews
    Seoul
    South Korea
    Email: webmaster@ohmynews.com

  • Planet Radio: Sharing Community Programming Over the Internet - by Keane Shore
    http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num=861
     http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num=788
     An international broadcasting association is helping community radio stations in the global South use the Internet to strengthen their programming. The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) has more than 2,500 members and associates in 110 countries. AMARC created its Internet initiative, MoebiuS/Planeta Radio, to counter unequal access to telecommunications, says Lorencita Pinto, the Programme Director.
    The goal is to democratize the airwaves by helping small, often low-powered, community radio stations around the world produce and share radio programs featuring different viewpoints than those of mainstream media.
    Notable Feature(s): Spanish version of this article; numerous links to related articles.
    Contact Information:
    Lorencita Pinto, MoebiuS Programme Director
    666 Sherbrooke Ouest
    bureau 400
    Montréal, Québec   H3A 1E7
    Canada
    Telephone: 514.982.0351   Fax: 514.849.7129
    Email: lorencita.pinto@amarc.org

  • Radio Broadcasting and the Internet: Converging for Development and Democracy
    by Bruce Girard
    http://comunica.org/kl/girard.htm
     http://www.comunica.org/kl/docsnlinks.htm
     This article is part of a Voices feature based on the results of the conference Converging Responsibility: Broadcasting and the Internet in Developing Countries, Kuala Lumpur, September 1999. While the benefits offered by the Internet are many, its dependence on a telecom infrastructure means that they are only available to a few. Radio is much more pervasive, accessible and affordable. Blending the two could be an ideal way of ensuring that the benefits accruing from the Internet have wider reach.
    The medium offers tremendous potential to promote development and democracy and while many stations have squandered this potential, the contribution that has been made is significant. Relevant, interesting and interactive radio enables neglected communities to be heard and to participate in the democratic process. And having a say in decisions that shape their lives ultimately improves their living standards.
    Notable Feature(s): E-mail updates; broadcasting and other local radio links; more information from Sucharita Eashwar.
    Contact Information:
    Bruce Girard
    Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
    Delft University of Technology
    PO Box 5015,
    Delft   2600 GA
    The Netherlands
    Telephone: +(31-15) 278.85.48   Fax: +(31-15) 278 7925
    Email: bgirard@comunica.org
    info@comunica.org

  • SIPAZ: Peace Journalism in Rural Columbia - by Angela Castellanos
    http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num=1029
     http://www.sipaz.net/
     Decades of guerrilla campaigns, military counterstrikes, and the relentless war on the drug trade have taken a devastating toll on Colombian culture and society. In response to this attack on the country's social and cultural environment, a group of Colombian social organizations and community radio stations united to form SIPAZ — Sistema Nacional de Comunicación para la Paz (National Communication System for Peace). With the help of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), SIPAZ has created a communications network and system that is helping to restore the social fabric in areas of conflict, particularly in the rural regions of Colombia.
    Contact Information:
    Mauricio Beltran, Fundacion Colombia Multicolor
    Email: multicol@colnodo.apc.org

  • Why Fund Media - by Karen Hirsch
    http://www.fundfilm.org/for_grant/for_grant_article1.htm
     http://www.cof.org/
     From the Council on Foundations comes this ground-breaking report on the potential social change impact of activist video, documentary radio, and documentary outreach associated with such enterprises. There is little doubt that media—film, television, radio and the Internet—are the central communication tools of our time. An average American adult views nearly sixty films a year, listens to the radio sixty hours per month, spends roughly ten hours a week on the Web, and watches television more than four hours a day. Combined that comes to about four full months a year. Yet despite the degree to which media shapes our daily lives, culture, politics and society, most foundations do not fund it. Why? After all, the business of disseminating ideas is essential to the philanthropic community, and every foundation has communication goals. The report includes seven case studies of effective programs told from dual perspectives: foundations supporting the work and the mediamakers behind the vision.
    Contact Information:
    Council on Foundations
    1828 L Street, NW
    Washington, DC   20036
    USA
    Telephone: 202.466.6512  
    Email: webmaster@cof.org

  • Active Voice (AV)
    http://www.activevoice.net/index.html
     Active Voice is a team of strategic communication specialists who put powerful media to work for personal and institutional change in communities, workplaces, and campuses across America. Through its practical guides, hands-on workshops, stimulating events and key partnerships nationwide, Active Voice moves people from thought to action. By highlighting compelling personal stories and perspectives seldom found in mainstream media, AV offers a much-needed outlet to people across America to speak out, listen up, and take the initiative for positive change.
    The seeds of Active Voice (AV) were planted at P.O.V., PBS's ongoing series of independent "point-of-view" nonfiction films. In 1993 then P.O.V. Executive Producer Ellen Schneider developed a model for leveraging the powerful human dimension of these award-winning films. Over the next four years, with support from Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation, she joined forces with media strategists, diversity trainers and facilitators to refine a sustainable model for linking social issue documentaries with community and national organizations. This team launched the Television Race Initiative (TRI), which used programs about race, culture and identity as a framework for community problem solving around issues of domestic race relations. TRI evolved into Active Voice in 2001. A full-service organization, AV maintains close ties with P.O.V. and other PBS programs, while expanding into additional venues, such as cable, theatrical releases and non-broadcast distribution.
    Notable Feature(s): Recent AV projects include projects about immigration, criminal justice, sustainable development, health policy and other subjects; publications: video modules, Web content, film discussion guides, educational toolkits, and other resources to transform concerned citizens into active ones.
    Contact Information:
    Ellen Schneider
    2601 Mariposa Street
    3rd floor
    San Francisco, CA   94110
    U.S.A.
    Telephone: 415.553.2841   Fax: 415.553.2848
    Email: info@activevoice.net

  • AMARC
    http://www.amarc.org/amarc/ang/
     AMARC is an international non-governmental organization serving the community radio movement, with almost 3 000 members and associates in 106 countries. What is Community radion? An AMARC member answers: Community radio, rural radio, cooperative radio, participatory radio, free radio, alternative, popular, educational radio. If the radio stations, networks and production groups that make up the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters refer to themselves by a variety of names, then their practices and profiles are even ore varied. Some are musical, some militant and some mix music and militancy. They are located in isolated rural villages and in the heart of the largest cities in the world. Their signals may reach only a kilometer, cover a whole country or be carried via shortwave to other parts of the world.
    Notable Feature(s): Calendar and contact information for community radio advocates around the world.
    Contact Information:
    Email: amarc@amarc.org

  • American Radioworks (AWR)
    http://www.americanradioworks.org/
     http://www.mpr.org/
     AWR is the national documentary journalism on the radio and the Internet. ARW is public radio's largest documentary production unit; it creates documentaries, series projects, and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet. ARW is based at Minnesota Public Radio in St. Paul with staff journalists in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, C.A., and Durham, N.C. Extensive online documentaries accompany all ARW radio projects, providing background, original photography, interactive elements and streaming audio of the radio documentaries. AWR documentaries report on wide range of international and domestic issues, including international human rights, science and health, race relations, and American history and culture.
    Notable Feature(s): Documentaries index.
    Contact Information:
    Minnesota Public Radio
    45 East Seventh Street
    St. Paul, MN   55101
    USA
    Telephone: 651.290.1212  
    Email: mail@americanradioworks.org

  • American RadioWorks - the Documentary Project of Minnesota Public Radio and NPR News
    http://www.americanradioworks.org/
     AMERICAN RADIOWORKS® is the documentary project of Minnesota Public Radio and NPR NewsSM. ARW is public radio's largest documentary production unit; it creates documentaries, series projects, and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet. ARW is based at Minnesota Public Radio in St. Paul and also has staff journalists based in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, C.A., and Durham, N.C.
    ARW produces documentaries and series projects for news magazines on National Public Radio, including All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
    Extensive online documentaries accompany all ARW radio projects, providing background, original photography, interactive elements and streaming audio of the radio documentaries.
    ARW represents a sustained effort at explanatory and investigative journalism. Principal themes include:
    • Public affairs documentaries on major social and economic issues
    • Investigative reporting
    • Documentaries that explore significant social and cultural subjects through stories with strong narrative threads
    • "Living History," an ongoing effort to document the 20th century American experience through the lives of those who witnessed it.

    Notable Feature(s): Documentaries Index of works on America, health, history, justice, and the world: human rights, corporate concerns, cultural artifacts, racial division, HIV/AIDS, nonprofit organizations, prison diaries, animal welfare, and more.
    Contact Information:
    Stephen Smith, Managing Editor
    Minnesota Public Radio
    45 East 7th Street
    St. Paul, MN   55101
    USA
    Telephone: 651.290.1212   Fax: 651.290.1224
    Email: ssmith@mpr.org

  • Audience Engagement - Outreach Stategies
    http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/res_audience.html
     http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/index.html
     From the Center for Social Media, a collection of articles, books, case studies, and links for community outreach to improve the impact of documentary and other media aimed at social change.
    Contact Information:
    Center for Social Media
    School of Communication
    American University4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
    Washington, D.C.   20016-8080
    U.S.A.
    Telephone: 202.885.3107   Fax: 202.885.1309
    Email: socialmedia@american.edu

  • Center for Development Communication
    http://www.cendevcom.org/
     CDC is a consultancy group that specializes in working with development agencies to ensure that all aspects of communication are systematically addressed as part of social development programmes. This ranges from providing training in the area of communication and media skills for senior development agency representatives to undertaking consultancies provide technical assistance, proposal writing, feasibility studies, socio-economic analysis, market research, program monitoring and evaluation, impact assessments. The group can provide support in emergency situations as well. The group has expertise in reproductive health, rural development, child survival, environmental issues, and basic education.
    Notable Feature(s): CDC members have produced a certain number of articles, presentations and essays that can be either read at the site or requested by mail.
    Contact Information:
    Moncef Bouhafa
    Center for Development Communication
    P.O.Box 25228
    Washington, DC   20007
    USA
    Telephone: 301.765.0641   Fax: 301.765.2218
    Email: mbouhafa@cendevcom.org

  • Center for Sustainable Human Rights Action (CeSHRA)
    http://www.ceshra.org/ourwork.htm
     CeSHRA's mission is to promote and protect a culture of human rights observance by strengthening human rights organizations worldwide. Together with its international partners, CeSHRA believes that strong, healthy organizations are necessary for effective human rights monitoring, research, education and advocacy.
    Notable Feature(s): Publications, including handbooks for making the most of the media for human rights groups around the world; opportunities to contribute to the process of collecting information and resources for a manual on Evaluation for Human Rights Organizations.
    Contact Information:
    CeSHRA
    122 West 27th Street
    10th Floor
    New york, NY   10001
    USA
    Telephone: 212.691.8020   Fax: 253.390.0781
    Email: ceshra@ceshra.org

  • Change Management Toolbook
    http://www.change-management-toolbook.com
     This Web site offers a broad range of methods and strategies that one can apply during different stages of organizational development. In its core, the Toolbook is based on the concept of "Learning Organizations", which was mainly introduced by Peter Senge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    The Toolbook for Change Management is a collection of practical exercises that can be applied for initiating change processes in any kind of organizations - private companies, governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, self-help groups, etc. There are cultural differences of communication, and some tools that will work in one culture won't in another. It's also true that some tools work in one organization and also work in another, which is 5000 miles away - but the same tools don't work in an other organization which is just next door. It is more the organization's culture that makes it receptable for change or not.
    Contact Information:
    Holger Nauheimer
    Email: h.nauheimer@berlin.snafu.de

  • Committee to Democratize Information Technology (CDI)
    http://www.cdi.org.br
     Founded by Ashoka Fellow Rodrigo Baggio, the Committee to Democratize Information Technology (CDI) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization in Brazil that promotes educational and vocational training programs (Computer Science and Citizenship Schools). Its mission is to reintegrate the members of the poor communities, principally children and young people, and alleviate the social exclusion they are subjected to in Brazil and throughout the world. In addition to developing pioneer work in bringing information technology to the underpriviliged populations, CDI promotes citizenship, literacy, ecology, health, human rights and non-violence, through information technology.
    Contact Information:
    Rodrigo Baggio
    Comitê para Democratização da Inform&aac
    Rua Haddock Lobo #78, Estácio
    Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20260-132
    Brazil
    Telephone: (55-21) 273-6648   Fax: (55-21) 273-6647
    Email: cdi@cdi.org.br

  • Communications for a Sustainable Future (CSF)
    http://csf.colorado.edu/
     CSF was founded on the idea that computer networking could be used to enhance communications with the objective of working through disparate views and ideologies to secure a more promising future.
    Notable Feature(s): Networking and links to useful categories: international studies, ecology and the environment, and service-learning; many discussion lists.
    Contact Information:
    Email: webmaster@csf.colorado.edu

  • Communications in the public interest
    http://www.benton.org/cpphome.html
     The Benton Foundation program in Communications Policy & Practice seeks to infuse the emerging communications environment with public interest values, and demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems and strengthening social bonds.
    Notable Feature(s): Best Practices Toolkit to help nonprofits use communications technology effectively.
    Contact Information:
    BENTON FOUNDATION
    1634 Eye Street NW
    Washington, DC   20006
    USA
    Telephone: 202-638-5770   Fax: 202-638-5771
    Email: benton@benton.org

  • Democracy Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Group
    http://www.wmd.org/dict/index.html
     The Democracy ICT Group of the World Movement for Democracy is made up of individuals interested in sharing their expertise and ideas on the practical aspects of information and communication technology. The group was formed as an outcome of a working meeting on using the Internet and other media to promote democracy at the Second Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in São Paulo in November 2000.
    Notable Feature(s): The Demo-IT e-mail list is a forum in which Democracy ICT Group members can discuss their ideas or problems or share information related to technology and democracy promotion.
    Contact Information:
    DRC at National Endowment for Democracy
    1101 Fifteenth Street, NW
    Suite 802
    Washington, DC   20005
    USA
    Email: DRC@ned.org

  • Development through Radio (DTR)
    http://www.dtronline.org/index.html
     Development through Radio exists in over 12 African countries. It is a simple yet complex concept that seeks to give women's voices a platform to air their views through radio. In Sierra Leone, the Forum of Conscience has facilitated the establishment of over 30 women's DTR groups that meet weekly to discuss and address their concerns, progress and aspirations to policy makers and the wider development community. The results of these discussions are broadcast nationally on a weekly basis on both the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service and KISS FM. The result of placing communications tools in the hands of rural women is immense. The value of being heard on the airwaves can hardly be measured; it is empowering. Exercising this right is a crucial means to healing and transformation of their lives and communities. This road to healing and economic independence is what the DTR is about.
    Notable Feature(s): Case studies through personal accounts; DTR projects; collection of resources.
    Contact Information:
    Mercy Wambui
    Reuters Digital Vision Fellow, Stanford University
    CSLI, 222 Cordura Hall
    220 Panama Street
    Stanford, CA   94305-4115
    USA
    Telephone: 650.724.4077   Fax: 650.724.4076
    Email: info@dtronline
    mwambui@stanford.edu

  • Dialogue to Action Initiative
    http://thataway.org/dialogue/index.htm
     Developed in 1998, the Dialogue to Action Initiative aims to help enable more people to experience the dialogue process and to help dialogue groups integrate talk with action more effectively. The Initiative relies on the principle that dialogue does more than improve the lives of the people who engage in it. Dialogue leads people to take action in their communities. Dialogue can be - and has been - the impetus communities need to begin solving deep-seated problems and breaking down long-standing barriers.
    Notable Feature(s): How-To organize a dialogue; Links to resources collected following the 9.11 crisis.
    Contact Information:
    Sandy Heierbacher
    P.O. Box 402
    Brattleboro, VT   05302
    USA
    Telephone: 802.254.7341  
    Email: heierbacher@hotmail.com

  • Directory of organizations active in change, communications and development
    http://www.comminit.com/links.html
     Contact Information:
    Warren Feek, Director
    Telephone: (250) 658-6372   Fax: (250) 658-1728
    Email: wfeek@coastnet.com

  • Directory of organizations that foster collaboration between culture, science and technology
    http://www.isea.qc.ca/links/centers.html

  • Drum Beat
    http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat.html
     http://www.comminit.com/index.html
     The Drum Beat provides excellent, path-breaking news and contact information on communications news, initiatives, and partnerships worldwide. Drum Beat is a project of THE COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE partnership, which includes The Rockefeller Foundation, UNICEF, USAID [HIV/AIDS, CHANGE], WHO, BBC World Service, CIDA, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, The European Union, Soul City, The Panos Institute, UNAIDS.
    Notable Feature(s): All back issues are archived at the site; a comprehensive collection of planning and strategy models for effective and sustainable communications programs; papers on different change theories; chat room; links.
    Contact Information:
    Warren Feek
    Email: wfeek@coastnet.com

  • Electric Shadows
    http://www.itvs.org/electricshadows/eShadowsF.html
     http://www.itvs.org/index.htm
     The Independent Television Service (ITVS) announces the commissioning of FACE TO FACE and CIRCLE OF STORIES through the Electric Shadows initiative, a pilot project bringing independently produced, innovative, interactive projects to the Web. Unique in American public television, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) was established by Congress to fund and present programs that "involve creative risks and address the needs of underserved audiences, especially children and minorities," while granting artistic control to independent producers. ITVS presents critically acclaimed, award-winning documentaries, dramas, series and television spots.
    Technically innovative, these two new content-rich projects are in keeping with ITVS's mission to give voice to underserved communities and foster cross-cultural understanding. FACE TO FACE launches at www.itvs.org/facetoface on August 29, 2002. CIRCLE OF STORIES launches at www.pbs.org/circleofstories on October 1, 2002. Electric Shadows' first call for applications was themed "Cultural Storytelling," referring to the stories, and means of conveying stories, that are specific to a particular group, defined in terms of ethnicity, geography, or any shared experience.

    FACE TO FACE, by Rob Mikuriya, connects the experiences of Japanese Americans in the early 1940s with those of Arab Americans today through a series of personal stories told through audio, photos and Flash animation. FACE TO FACE presents themes of anger, fear, hatred, confusion, loyalty and trust, and ultimately explores the question of what it means to be an American with the face of the enemy. The project will employ interactive storytelling. The user can select words and phrases from one person's story that will lead him or her to another story, creating a collage of stories containing similar themes and experiences.

    CIRCLE OF STORIES, by Jilann Spitzmiller and Hank Rogerson, brings to life the vibrant art of Native American storytelling. The site is being produced in collaboration with Melissa Nelson, executive director of the Cultural Conservancy, a Native American organization dedicated to the preservation and revitalization of indigenous cultures.
    Contact Information:
    Independent Television Service (ITVS)
    501 York Street
    San Francisco, CA   94110
    USA
    Telephone: 415.356.8383   Fax: 415.356.8391
    Email: itvs@itvs.org

  • Four Docs
    http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/
     http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/about/about.html
     New from British television Channel Four, FourDocs is the place to upload or download four-minute documentaries. Anyone with a story to tell or an opinion to voice can submit their film to FourDocs. A brand new Web site launched in August 2005 aims to be the place to watch and upload four-minute documentaries. This initiative represents the first time a major broadcaster has opened up such an opportunity to everyone, for free: make your film and upload it; it's as simple as that.
    Notable Feature(s): Frequently Asked Questions; guides on how to plan, shoot, edit and compress a fact-based documentary; Media Rights's background article on the genesis of FourDocs and the growing democratization of documentary filmmaking.
    Contact Information:
    Patrick Uden, executive producer
    FourDocs
    Email: fourdocs@channel4.com

  • Global Nomads Group (GNG)
    http://www.gng.org/frame.html
     Global Nomads Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting global education through videoconferencing and interactive broadcasting. GNG partners with educators to conduct collaborative learning projects that encourage cross-cultural dialogue and reflections on the global issues that affect our lives. Global Nomads Group (GNG) allows educators to begin integrating live "in-country learning" experiences into their teaching. For very little expense, GNG makes this possible between K-12 classrooms around the world, providing the essential elements for successful worldwide broadcast conferencing: in-country counterparts, technology, planning, collaborative projects, distance learning processes, equal access, and curriculum materials.
    Notable Feature(s): Case studies of successful integration of modern communications technology in schools, thereby broadening students' horizons; examples of video conferencing and more.
    Contact Information:
    Global Nomads Group
    6611 Hillcrest Ave #224
    Dallas, TX   75205
    USA
    Telephone: 214. 564.5758   Fax: 214. 428.7480
    Email: info@gng.org

  • Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Programme: A Multi-Media Case Study
    http://www.telecommons.com/villagephone/contents.html
     http://www.grameen-info.org/grameen/gtelecom/
     Full on-line text of March 2000 case study of Grameen's effort at poverty reduction by providing micro-credit cellular phone service. The case study contains in-depth analysis of the operation of the Village Phone initiative, its impact on poverty reduction, the business case for rural telecommunications in Bangladesh, and analysis of gender contexts and phone use. The report also contains an extensive bibliography with hyper-text links to key documents and reports, including an earlier research report on the Village Phone initiative by Prof. Abdul Bayes. The report is accompanied by on-line video including an interview with Muhammad Yunus, Managing Director of the Grameen Bank. This study was commissioned by the Strategic Planning & Policy Division of the Asia Branch Poverty Reduction Project, Canadian International Development Agency, as a case study among many undertaken as part of the Asia Branch Poverty Reduction Project, to investigate the impact of the GrameenPhone and Grameen Telecom provision of micro-credit cellular phone service on poverty reduction and the socio-economic situation of women Village Phone operators and users at large.
    Contact Information:
    Don Richardson
    TeleCommons Development Group
    512 Woolwich St., Suite 200
    Guelph, Ontario   N1H 3X7
    Canada
    Telephone: 519.821.5787 x 241   Fax: 519-821-4868
    Email: don@tdg.ca

  • HomeExchange.com
    http://www.HomeExchange.COM/index.html
     Home exchange is a growing vacation activity that offers a rich and rewarding travel experience. One vacations in a private home, meets local people, eats in non-tourist restaurants and shops in neighborhood stores. A home exchange vacationer has a depth of cultural immersion not possible with conventional means of travel. The HomeExchange.com enterprise offers a safe and experienced way to identify and communicate with potential partners in destinations of one's choice.
    Contact Information:
    HomeExchange.com
    P. O. Box 30085
    Santa Barbara, CA   93130
    USA
    Telephone: (805) 898-9660   Fax: (805) 898-9199
    Email: admin@HomeExchange.com

  • ICT Stories Project
    http://www.iicd.org/stories/
     This project's objective is to capture the learning process that accompanies the introduction and implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in a project in exemplary stories. These stories describe good practices and lessons learned from contributors' experiences. The collected stories are stored in a database on this Web site, and available to anybody interested in projects with ICT components. The adoption of innovations in the field of ICTs poses a problem in the sense that information is (excessively) abundant, rapidly outdated, unstructured and thus hard to retrieve. This hinders the acquisition of up-to-date knowledge by means of formal education and training, especially in countries with little financial resources. Moreover, the cost of ICTs restrict the opportunities to experiment and learn by doing. With information readily available but hard to find, and relatively limited opportunities to learn from one's own experiences, the sharing of experiences with others becomes an important way to become knowledgeable.
    Notable Feature(s): Complete database of stories submitted; submit stories of innovative best practices with information communication technologies; InfoDev, a grant program (managed by the World Bank) for the innovative use of communication and information technology.
    Contact Information:
    Pamela Street
    The Information for Development Program (InfoDev)
    F5P-132
    1818 H Street, NW
    Washington, DC   20433
    USA Fax: +1-202-522-3186
    Email: pstreet@worldbank.org

  • International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
    http://www.iicd.org/
     The International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) assists developing countries to utilise the opportunities offered by information and communication technologies (ICTs) to realise sustainable development. ICD uses a cross-sectoral approach, in which local entrepreneurs ('agents of change') come up with proposals for realistic ICT applications. In IICD's view local ownership and a broad social consensus form an essential basis for sustainable socio-economic development. The Institute has its background in Europe. It was established by the Netherlands Minister for Development Co-operation in 1997.
    Contact Information:
    Lisette Gast, IICD
    P.O.Box 11586
    2502 AN The Hague
    The Netherlands
    Telephone: +31-70-311-7311   Fax: +31-70-311-7322
    Email: lgast@iicd.org

  • International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law
    http://www.icnl.org/journal/vol1iss2/index.html
     ICNL is an international organization whose mission is to facilitate and support the development of civil society and the freedom of association on a global basis. ICNL, in cooperation with other international, national, and local organizations, provides technical assistance for the creation and improvement of laws and regulatory systems that permit, encourage, and regulate the NGO sector in countries around the world.
    ICNL maintains a documentation center for laws, regulations, self-regulatory materials, and other relevant documents, it provides relevant training and education, and it conducts research relevant to strengthening and improving laws for NGOs.
    Notable Feature(s): Case Notes on recent decisions worldwide; articles, calendar; book reviews, including one on Non-Profit Handbook by Gary Grobman; Country Reports.
    Contact Information:
    INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW
    733 15th St., NW, Suite 420
    Washington, DC   20005
    USA
    Email: daitken@icnl.org

  • ITConversations: New Ideas Through Your Headphones
    http://www.itconversations.com/index.html
     A regularly updated, listener-supported site featuring audio programs, interviews, and important events that one can listen to on an MP3 player or computer.
    Notable Feature(s): Those interviewed include James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds: he offers some insights into both the best decision-making behaviors and the worst decision breaking behaviors of groups both large and small in this entertaining talk from the Emerging Technology Conference 2005. And Darrell Hammond, founder of KaBOOM! Hammond believes that play is a crucial factor in the overall well-being of children. Yet, play has often been pushed to the back-burner in many communities. He envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America.

  • ITConversations: New Ideas Through Your Headphones
    http://www.itconversations.com/index.html
     A regularly updated, listener-supported site featuring audio programs, interviews, and important events that one can listen to on an MP3 player or computer.
    Notable Feature(s): Those interviewed include James Surowiecki author of The Wisdom of Crowds: he offers some insights into both the best decision-making behaviors and the worst decision breaking behaviors of groups both large and small in this entertaining talk from the Emerging Technology Conference 2005. And Darrell Hammond, founder of KaBOOM! Hammond believes that play is a crucial factor in the overall well-being of children. Yet, play has often been pushed to the back-burner in many communities. He envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America.

  • Itrainonline
    http://www.itrainonline.org/
     ItrainOnline is a joint initiative of six global organizations with exceptional expertise in computer and Internet training in the South. ItrainOnline is committed to the free and fair sharing of development information. The information and annotations on the site are free, and can be reproduced, translated, and disseminated without restriction. Most of the material described in the collection is free.
    Notable Feature(s): Materials and annotated links to high-quality resources in English, Spanish, French (coming soon), and many other languages, on topics ranging from computer and Internet basics to highly technical areas and the ways that civil society and development organizations can increase their impact using these tools.
    Contact Information:
    Email: itrain@bellanet.org

  • KnowNet Weaver
    http://www.knownetweaver.org/
     KnowNet Weaver is a tool kit developed for communities, non-governmental organizations and individuals that want to host specific kinds of information and their local knowledge on the Internet. The aim is to spark a process of "knowledge networking" for sustainable development.
    KnowNet Weaver enables one to create an interactive Web site, give it a domain name and host it on the World Wide Web (WWW) absolutely free-of-cost using freeware or shareware available on the Internet.
    Notable Feature(s): Software for Web page designing, adding a search engine, registering a domain name, keeping count of site hits, and establishing a site guest book for comments and feedback.
    Contact Information:
    Vikas Nath
    KnowNet Weaver
    Email: nvikas@hotmail.com
    KnowNet@knownetweaver.org

  • Making Television Matter
    http://www.benton.org/MakingTelevisionMatter/
     This report (free online in pdf format) from the Benton Foundation shows how documentaries can engage and mobilize communities. The report contains case studies, helpful tips and cautionary tales from independents, broadcast stations, and nonprofit organizations.
    Contact Information:
    Benton Foundation
    1625 K Street, NW
    Washington, DC   20006
    USA
    Telephone: 202.638.5770   Fax: 202.638.5771
    Email: benton@benton.org

  • Massive Change Radio
    http://www.massivechange.com/staticpages/index.php?page=radio
     http://www.institutewithoutboundaries.com/
     Massive Change Radio, a series of interviews by Jennifer Leonard with provocative thinkers across disciplines, is broadcast from the University of Toronto. It is a project of Bruce Mau Design and the Institute without Borders.
    Notable Feature(s): Downloadable archive files include
    • Jaime Lerner, an architect, urban planner, United Nations consultant for urban issues, and the former (three-time) mayor of Curitiba, Brazil. Lerner led the urban revolution that put Curitiba, and, most notably, its public transit system, on the world map.
    • Robert Freling is the executive director of The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF). He talks about the power of photovoltaics and the solar rural electrification programs he was responsible for developing and coordinating in Brazil, China, Indonesia, South Africa, and in the Solomon Islands.
    • Bill Drayton, a former McKinsey & Co. consultant, founded Ashoka in 1980, an entrepreneurial organization that recognizes the power of individual innovation in addressing social problems.
    • Stephen Browne, Director of the ICT for Development Group of the UN Development Programme, talks about bridging the digital divide in an effort to alleviate global poverty.

    Contact Information:
    Jennifer Leonard
    Massive Change Radio
    Email: thevalueofpie@yahoo.com

  • MC-NET
    http://www.mediachannel.org/mc-net/
     This networking list enables MediaChannel affiliates to seek help or initiate collaborations on ongoing and upcoming projects and discover advice, experts, resources and colleagues across the global network. As a member of this group, you may send messages to the entire group using just one email address: MC-Net@mail-list.com. MC-Net is intended specifically for MediaChannel affiliates to initiate collaborations, dialogue and the exchange of expertise. Affiliate Manager Andrew Levy (andrew@mediachannel.org) will lightly moderate the list to approve or discard posts before they are sent to the whole network. Members should respect email inbox space and keep posts short and to the point.
    Notable Feature(s): To participate in the Media Channel, fill out the online form.
    Contact Information:
    Email: Andrew@mediachannel.org

  • Media and Communication Studies
    http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/medmenu.html
     The MCS (pronounced 'mix') site is a British-based gateway to Web resources useful in the academic study of media and communication.
    Notable Feature(s): Excellent index of links to hundreds of communications sites organized around themes: gender, ethnicity, education, cultural studies, film, mass media in specific countries, technology; calendar of events, conferences, call for papers.
    Contact Information:
    David Chandler
    University of Wales at Aberystwyth
    Email: dgc@aber.ac.uk

  • Media Arts Organizations and Social Change: A Working Paper by Julie Mackaman
    http://www.namac.org/Newsletter/winter98/nng.html
     http://www.namac.org/
     An excellent introduction to the communications role of film, video, audio and multimedia in progressive, grassroots social change activities, including media training, community development, advocacy for disabilities, information exchange and networking between journalism, media arts (including documentary), and communities.
    "Across the land, media arts organizations provide regional hubs for innovation and diversity in media, for point-of-view films and videos, for community-based works that draw average citizens into the discussion of social issues and public policy debate. Together, these regional centers form a support and communications network for disparate artists and communities that often have little in common beyond an irrepressible belief that in a pluralistic society, media belongs to us all."
    Notable Feature(s): Links to related groups, initiatives, and funding sources; free e-mail Bulletin from National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture; intermedia literacy tools; comprehensive guide to media arts organizations.
    Contact Information:
    National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC)
    346 - 9th St
    San Francisco, CA   94103
    USA
    Telephone: 415.431.1391   Fax: 415.431.1392
    Email: namac@namac.org

  • Media Channel
    http://www.mediachannel.org/
     Media Channel is a nonprofit project of The Global Center and OneWorld Online, one of the leading informational supersites on the Internet. Media Channel's mission statement lays out its field of concern: "Nine transnational conglomerates dominate the global media. Only 20 major companies control nearly all the newspapers in the United States. Magazines, films, radio and television stations, book publishers and multimedia producers all are subject to the same monopolistic tendencies. With market values firmly in command, we are witnessing the commercialization of public space, the decline of journalism, the denigration of ideas of public service, and the debasing of our political culture.
    The media have a profound effect on our cultures, on our personal and political choices. Increasingly, to be an informed citizen requires a knowledge of the workings of the media world. For this reason, the kind of knowledge that once was the province of insiders and the territory of specialists is becoming of interest to the public at large.
    Media Channel offers content from more than 300 international media-issues organizations; daily media news; original contributions from journalists, researchers, and whistle-blowers; and tools to encourage public involvement in media activism.
    Notable Feature(s): A seemingly exhaustive and authoritative source of news, opinion, trends, analysis, background reading, links and other media information of use throughout the world, including notably, a Media Literacy ToolKit for parents, kids and teachers.
    Contact Information:
    Media Channel
    1600 Broadway, Suite 700
    New York, NY   10019
    USA
    Telephone: 212.246.0202   Fax: 212.246.2677
    Email: editor@mediachannel.org

  • Media for Development and Democracy
    http://www.devmedia.org/
     DevMedia helps people exchange information and news about how communication tools can promote development and democracy. DevMedia's focus is on media that are in the hands of people and communities. It draws attention to ways of improving peoples' access to media to encourage the sharing of ideas, voices and knowledge: locally and globally.
    Notable Feature(s): Women's issues; grassroots media; telecommunications for rural development.
    Contact Information:
    Email: don@tdg.ca

  • MediaRights.org
    http://www.mediarights.org/
     MediaRights.org's mission is to make social issue documentaries and advocacy videos more widely available for educational use, via a community site for media makers, activists, educators and librarians. As the influence of media rapidly expands, MediaRights wants to encourage people working for social change and environmental protection to access its growing power to further their work. At the Web site media professionals can draw on the experiences of frontline activists and discover timely stories often overlooked in mainstream media. Activists can further their campaigns by teaming up with filmmakers to make advocacy videos or publicize their work.
    Notable Feature(s): Media That Matters Online Film Festival; Quick search database of documentary films by title, description, distributor.
    Contact Information:
    MediaRights.org
    104 W. 14th Street
    4th Floor
    New York, NY   10011
    USA
    Telephone: 646.230.6288   Fax: 646.230.6328
    Email: info@mediarights.org

  • Microradio Implementation Project
    http://www.microradio.org/
     The Microradio Implementation Project is a national initiative to assist faith groups, community organizations, multicultural/multiracial populations, linguistic groups, and other non-profit civil sectors or municipally minded entities in establishing non-commercial low power FM stations.
    Notable Feature(s): Useful links.
    Contact Information:
    Microradio Implementation Project
    633 SW Montgomery St.
    Portland, Oregon   97207
    USA
    Telephone: 503.226.9036   Fax: 503.226.9057
    Email: microradioproject@earthlink.net

  • Microradio Implementation Project
    http://www.microradio.org/
     The Microradio Implementation Project is a national initiative to assist faith groups, community organizations, multicultural/multiracial populations, linguistic groups, and other non-profit civil sectors or municipally minded entities in establishing non-commercial low power FM stations. It offers general information and education about low power radio development and the licensing process, regional workshops and teleconferencing where possible on the license and filing process, program planning, and emerging technology.
    Notable Feature(s): Links.
    Contact Information:
    The Microradio Implementation Project
    633 SW Montgomery St.
    Portland, Oregon   97207
    USA
    Telephone: 503.226.9036   Fax: 503.226.9057
    Email: microradioproject@earthlink.net

  • Net Radiophony India Pvt. Ltd.
    http://www.radiophony.com/html_files/who_we_are.html
     Radiophony has been created to provide innovative and cost-effective solutions to problems of access for those who do not have the means, one way or the other, to use regular computers. Oravakal demonstrates Radiophony's first application of innovative audio solutions in communications for ordinary people. This place in Andhra Pradesh is the first village in India to run its own audio broadcast center. Oravakal is a small village of roughly 5,000 people near Kurnool, a district headquarter town about 200 km from Hyderabad, the state capital. It is the site of a village development project that has been going on for the past six years or so, since about 1996. This has taken various forms over the years, but has resulted in several women and men taking the initiative to lead the villagers out of a cycle of poverty. Radiophony reviewed various possibilities, including production of local programming on cassette tape and playback by village volunteers. Based on this analysis, it recommended setting up a grassroots studio using state-of-the-art consumer digital equipment, whose great advantage lies in the fact that it is relatively inexpensive and thereby cost-effective. The technology, the optical minidisk developed by Sony Corporation of Japan, affords non-linear editing capabilities for a fraction of the cost of traditional studio equipment. It is also portable and therefore mobile.
    Notable Feature(s): Background papers on technology issues important to community development, education, the Internet, and empowering initiatives for business and management.
    Contact Information:
    Dr Arun Mehta
    Email: amehta@radiophony.com

  • NetAid
    http://www.netaid.org/netaid/index.htm
     http://www.netaid.org/articles/index.htm
     Just as the Internet has become a major force for change in business and communications, it has also provided new opportunity for social change. NetAid is a unique partnership led by Cisco Systems and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),working with world-class artists and producers to raise awareness and create opportunity for one of the most far-reaching problems in the world today - extreme poverty.
    NetAid will demonstrate the power of the Internet to change the fate of people and support positive social change. NetAid marks the first time that an Internet site, webcasting, television and radio have been integrated on a global scale, creating a uniquely powerful force to support social change.
    NetAid will empower millions of individuals to help fight poverty by providing education, opportunities for engagement with anti-poverty projects and leaders.
    Notable Feature(s): Profiles of social change agents: individuals and organizations around the world working to eradicate poverty, educate, and mitigate human rights abuses; opportunities for action and involvement.
    Contact Information:
    Bob Chlopak
    NetAid
    Washington, DC
    USA
    Telephone: 202-289-5900  
    Email: bob_chlopak@clsdc.com

  • Network for Good
    http://www.networkforgood.org/npo/
     Network for Good, an independent, 501(c)(3) organization, was founded by the AOL Time Warner Foundation and AOL, Inc.; the Cisco Foundation and Cisco Systems, Inc.; and Yahoo! Inc., in partnership with over 20 nonprofit foundations and associations who share the desire to foster the informed use of the Internet for civic participation and philanthropy. The Website aggregates content and resources from these leaders, organizes them and makes them available in one comprehensive, easy-to-use destination, which also helps to expand the reach, effectiveness and pervasiveness of all of Network for Good's nonprofit partners.
    Notable Feature(s): Excellent search engine to valuable resources on different aspects of social change and efforts to understand and better manage organizations involved in such change; online access to volunteer and philanthropic opportunities.
    Contact Information:
    Network for Good
    c/o The AOL Foundation
    22000 AOL Way
    Dulles, VA   20166
    USA
    Telephone: 703.265.1342  
    Email: publicrelations@networkforgood.org

  • OneWorld Radio
    http://radio.oneworld.net/
     OneWorld Radio offers services and networking for broadcasters and civil society organisations who are using radio for human rights, sustainable development and democracy. At the Web site one will find radio programmes for exchange, news, training and funding resources, and a growing directory of community members using radio for change.
    Notable Feature(s): Funding resources; OneWorld Radio AIDS Network.
    Contact Information:
    OneWorld Radio - Manager - Jackie Davies
    OneWorld International
    17th Floor
    89 Albert Embankment
    Vauxhall, London   SE1 7TP
    UK
    Telephone: +44 [0]20 7735 2100   Fax: +44 [0]20 7840 0798
    Email: jackie.davies@oneworld.net

  • Permanent Waves
    http://www.amarc.org/pw/
     http://www.amarc.org/pw/links.html
     Permanent Waves is a transnational project focusing on training for women in the radio sector, with a particular emphasis on community radio. The project brings together a unique partnership of women's radio training projects from Spain, UK, Greece, Italy and Ireland.
    Notable Feature(s): Excellent collection of communications links with an emphasis on women in media; materials in English and Spanish.
    Contact Information:
    Sangita Basudev
    CMA, Community media Association
    The Workstation
    15, Paternoster Row
    Sheffield   S1 2BX
    United Kingdom
    Telephone: +44 (0)114 279 5219   Fax: +44 (0)114 279 8976
    Email: sangita@commedia.org.uk

  • Planetwork Journal
    ]http://journal.planetwork.net
     At a time when humanity faces extraordinary challenges—the litany of them is all too familiar—innovations in information technology offer seeds of hope. The influence of information technology on fields as diverse as environmental science, biology, ecological design, alternative economics, distributed democracy, social network theory, and interactive forms of art has transformed the landscape of the possible. Vibrant new ideas are emerging from this radical cross-pollination. When viewed in relationship to one another, they cohere into a vision of a more just, sustainable, and equitable world. They present a picture of the global citizen of the 21st century, actively engaged in the governance of her community.
    PlaNetwork Journal is a quarterly online publication for in-depth articles by those engaged in this cross-disciplinary approach, applying new technology to benefit the public interest. It is a place where researchers, independent scholars, software designers, artists, and activists can present their work and ideas to those outside their own field who share their concern about the challenges facing the ecosystem and democracy.
    Notable Feature(s): Relevant Perspectives; and Democracy and more, including a paper on Indymedia, how the global, decentralized, grassroots network applies open source principles to reporting the news.
    Contact Information:
    Email: editor@planetwork.net

  • Population Communications International (PCI)
    http://www.population.org/
     PCI's mission is to work creatively with the media and other organizations to motivate individuals and communities to make choices that influence population trends encouraging sustainable development and environmental protection. PCI pursues this mission primarily through the research, development, and broadcast of locally produced radio and television serial dramas that reflect the culture of the host country and educate through the vehicle of popular entertainment. PCI also seeks to achieve its mission by encouraging news organizations to provide useful and timely information regarding population and development issues, and by enhancing communications among, and creating cooperative relationships with, other non-governmental organizations.
    Contact Information:
    Population Communications International
    777 United Nations Plaza
    New York, NY   10017
    USA
    Telephone: 212.687.3366   Fax: 212.661.4188
    Email: pciny@population.org

  • Prometheus Radio Project
    http://www.prometheusradio.org/
     Prometheus Radio Project has played a key role in the struggle to get licenses for community radio stations. Prometheus practices a mixture of research, advocacy, activism and direct services to organizations that want to start radio stations on the newly won rules for neighborhood radio. Its mission is to serve as a microradio resource center offering legal, technical, and organizational support for the noncommercial community broadcasters.
    Notable Feature(s): Links; Prometheus project descriptions; a vast collection of organizational and technical help and advice.
    Contact Information:
    Pete tri Dish
    Prometheus Radio Project
    P.O. Box 42158
    Philadelphia, PA   19101
    USA
    Telephone: 215.727.9620  
    Email: petri@critpath.org

  • Radio Diaries
    http://www.radiodiaries.org/
     http://www.radiodiaries.org/teenagediaries.html
     Radio Diaries, Inc. is committed to producing a new kind of oral history. The organization works with people to document their own lives for public radio; teenagers, the elderly, workers, prison inmates and people in the forgotten corners of America. It trains diarists to be radio reporters and gives each one a tape recorder for three months to a year.
    Participants conduct interviews, keep an audio journal, and record the sounds of daily life - usually collecting over 20 hours of raw tape. RD, Inc. collaborates with each reporter, editing the material into radio documentaries for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Its mission is to find extraordinary stories in ordinary places and to preserve those voices for generations to come.
    Notable Feature(s): The diaries themselves; an opportunity for teenagers to produce their own radio diaries.
    Contact Information:
    Joe Richman, Producer
    Radio Diaries, Inc.
    169 Avenue A, Suite 13
    New York, NY   10009
    U.S.A.
    Email: info@radiodiaries.org

  • RealImpact
    http://www.realimpact.net/
     http://www.realimpact.net/showcase/?sec=3
     RealImpact works with nonprofit organizations, foundations, and progressive businesses to make use of the incredible opportunities that the Internet offers to broaden their reach and spread their message.
    RealImpact's services are broken down into three major areas: Streaming Media, Strategic Consulting, and Website Design. In addition, RealImpact provides technical assistance to help organizations become proficient in understanding the Internet and streaming media.
    Notable Feature(s): Link list of NGOs for whom RealImpact has provided Web site hosting, design and technical consultation.
    Contact Information:
    Eileen V. Quigley
    RealImpact
    RealNetworks, Inc.
    2601 Elliott Avenue
    Seattle, WA   98121
    USA
    Telephone: 206.674.2240  
    Email: realimpact@real.com

  • rits - Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor (Information Network for the Third Sector)
    http://www.rits.org.br/
     A Rits é uma organização sem fins lucrativos. Nossa missão? Oferecer informações sobre o terceiro setor e acesso democrático à tecnologia de comunicação e gerência do conhecimento. Estamos certos de que esses instrumentos repercutirão positivamente sobre a qualidade e a eficácia das ações do setor.
    The third sector in Brazil (as compared to the State and the market, and not to be confused with the tertiary or services' sector of the economy) comprises more than 250,000 formally registered non-profit organizations (less than 2% of which use the Internet in any way). Considering that these non-profits are dispersed in a country with 8.5 million km2, 160 million people and 5,507 municipalities (many of which with precarious or practically non-existent Internet or telecommunications facilities), building Internet-based networks of non-governmental organizations in Brazil is a major challenge.
    The Information Network for the Third Sector (Rits) is a non-profit organization founded in 1997 dedicated to contribute to the empowerment of third sector organzations through dissemination of digital information and communication technologies (DICTs).
    Notable Feature(s): Associadas; Documentos; Educação; Filantropia; Oportunidades; Links; Portuguese and English.
    Contact Information:
    Carlos A. Afonso
    Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor (Inf
    Rua Vicente de Souza, 34
    22251-070 Rio de Janeiro
    Brazil
    Telephone: +55-21-527-8660   Fax: +55-21-527-5685
    Email: ca@rits.org.br

  • SchoolNet
    http://www.apc.org/english/hafkin/2002_winner.shtml
     http://www.apc.org/english/index.shtml
     SchoolNet Namibia, a volunteer-driven organisation that is working to see all Namibian schoolchildren get access to a computer and the Internet, was awarded the 2002 APC Africa Hafkin Communications Prize for people-centred information and communications technology (ICT) policy. SchoolNet Namibia provides an exemplary role model for the sustainable introduction of ICT across the education sector. The SchoolNet model which includes the adoption of appropriate school computer technology, the use of open source and free software solutions, free Internet Service provision in partnership with local government-owned telecommunication agencies, and solar-powered school computer laboratories can be replicated by education systems across Africa.
    Notable Feature(s): SchoolNet home page with access to networking information and youth empowerment programs.
    Contact Information:
    Telephone: 061 21 29 73  
    Email: info@schoolnet.na

  • Social change through radio
    http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/clandestine/index.html
     Contact Information:
    Email: francois.laureys@rnw.nl

  • Sound Partners for Community Health
    http://www.soundpartners.org/
     Sound Partners for Community Health is a competitive national grant program for public radio stations. It is a program of the Benton Foundation, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. These foundations share the belief that broadcasters can help equip people to participate in community problem-solving. Grants are awarded to public radio stations submitting proposals that demonstrate how community-centered journalism can positively affect the ways in which local health care issues are addressed. Short-term projects may receive as much as $15,000; long-term projects may receive up to $35,000.
    Notable Feature(s): Focus on children's health, youth substance abuse, end of life decisions, health care safety net, and the aging and chronically ill; newsletter.
    For more information contact:
    Mark Sachs Co-Director
    Sound Partners for Community Health
    8730 Georgia Avenue, Suite 408
    Silver Spring, MD 20910
    Tel: 301-565-0805 Fax: 301-565-0808
    E-mail: markasachs@aol.com
    Contact Information:
    Anne Green
    Director, Capacity Building Program
    Benton Foundation
    1625 K Street, NW
    Washington, DC   20006
    USA
    Telephone: 202.638.5770   Fax: 202.638.5771
    Email: whitney@benton.org

  • Southern Africa Communications for Development (SACOD)
    http://www.sacod.org.za/index.htm
     The Southern Africa Communications for Development (SACOD) is a network of southern African filmmakers, film and video production organisations and distributors. Founded in 1987, SACOD has members spread over 10 southern African countries: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Angola, Lesotho, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Namibia and Botswana. A key annual event is the SACOD Forum when regional and international filmmakers meet for five days to discuss, debate, critique, and celebrate a pre-selected programme of films and videos. These films predominantly address social, political and developmental issues. The objective of the Forum is to enable filmmakers in the southern Africa region to make more effective programmes on social issues. The themes cover social, political and developmental issues with the intention to inform, educate and entertain. The ultimate goal is to make programmes that will enable change and promote democracy, peace, popular participation, race and gender equality, development and cultural identity.
    Contact Information:
    Chris Kabwato
    Email: sacodnet@icon.co.za

  • Technology: Possibilities and Impacts
    http://www.changemakers.net/library/fieldlink.cfm?field=Technology:+Possibilities+and+Impacts
     This is an extensive collection of articles and Web sites pertaining to technology and innovation in education, communications, and community development.

  • TechSoup
    http://www.techsoup.org
     http://www.compumentor.org
     TechSoup.org is a free, comprehensive nonprofit technology Web site powered by CompuMentor. Featuring nonprofit discounts, articles, recommendations, resource lists and an on-line community, TechSoup leads nonprofits to technology solutions.
    Notable Feature(s): By the Cup monthly e-newsletter; resource list of technology suppliers, funders, software distributors and others; worksheets and other information on database planning for nonprofits.
    Contact Information:
    CompuMentor
    487 Third Street
    San Francisco, CA   94107
    USA
    Telephone: 415.512.7784 x354   Fax: 415.512.9629
    Email: info@techsoup.org

  • TeleCommons Development Group (TDG)
    http://www.telecommons.com/
     http://www.telecommons.com/projects.cfm?documentid=101
     Founded in 1993, the TeleCommons Development Group (TDG) is an international telecommunications and networking consulting firm specializing in results-oriented solutions for rural areas, agriculture, health, education and community development.
    TDG provides a participatory approach for rural telecommunication and networking project design and implementation, Internet applications for rural, agricultural and environmental development, and planning and operation of rural telecentres.
    Notable Feature(s): Project descriptions of work around the world; documents and news.
    Contact Information:
    TeleCommons Development Group
    512 Woolwich St. Suite 200
    Guelph, Ontario
    Canada
    Telephone: 519.822.8385   Fax: 519.837.9883
    Email: info@telecommons.com

  • Telecommunications for Rural Development
    http://www.devmedia.org/Category.cfm?Category=42
     Excellent global networking sources for communications information and exchange of case studies and educational programs.
    Contact Information:
    Email: don@tdg.ca

  • Telemedicine Meets the Global Village - Daniel Epstein & Richard L. Vernaci
    http://165.158.1.110/english/DPImag/Number5/article2.htm
     Contact Information:
    Daniel Betbeder
    Telephone: (202) 974-3358  
    Email: betbeded@paho.org

  • Television Race Initiative (TRI)
    http://www.pbs.org/pov/tvraceinitiative/what.html
     The Television Race Initiative (TRI) is a multi-year effort in which diverse, character-driven, high-profile television broadcasts create a spine for sustained community dialogue and problem solving around the issue of race relations. In partnership with national and community-based organizations, TRI uses storytelling-initially in the form of several public television broadcasts-to ‘break the ice' and encourage essential conversations that lead to constructive action.
    Television Race Initiative (TRI), a project of American Documentary, Inc., grew out of a "beyond outreach" community engagement model called High Impact Television (HITV). Created initially for AmDoc's signature PBS series, P.O.V., and more proactive than conventional "outreach," High Impact Television and TRI are collaborative media efforts that use broadcasts as tools to pursue measurable, ongoing outcomes.
    The Television Race Initiative (TRI) works with six public television stations around the U.S. to use national programming on a local level to build meaningful alliances with local organizations and to serve the particular interests of their own communities.
    Notable Feature(s): Links; documentary profiles, broadcast schedules, teachers' study guides, and more background materials for all TRI programs.
    Contact Information:
    Ellen Schneider, Executive Director
    Television Race Initiative National Office
    2601 Mariposa Street
    3rd Floor
    San Francisco, CA   94110
    USA
    Telephone: 415.553.2841   Fax: 415.553.2848
    Email: tvrace@pov.org

  • The Global Village CAT
    http://www.openchannel.se/cat/
     This is a directory of worldwide links to 580 Public Access Television sites in 20 countries and many other links related to the movement for the Freedom of Speech.
    Contact Information:
    Christer Hederström
    Email: ched@hem2.passagen.se

  • The Internet and Social Strategies
    http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/feature/feature1/Afonso.html
     Contact Information:
    Carlos A. Afonso
    Executive Director of AlterNex
    Technical Director of IBASE--the Brazilian Institute for Soc
    Email: cafonso@ax.apc.org

  • The Power of Culture
    http://www.powerofculture.nl/uk/
     The Power of Culture is a Web site about culture and development. Culture is not a peripheral matter. The ideas, ideals, and creativity of people are the driving force behind development toward more political, economic, and social freedom. The Power of Culture reviews art and cultural expressions in conjunction with human rights, education, the environment, emancipation, and democratization. The site offers a list of projects, initiatives, and objectives of Dutch organizations active in this area.
    The site also reports on the part played by cultural organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and South-east Europe. News and background information illustrate how culture is inextricably entwined with ethics and policy. The Power of Culture also points the way to other Internet sources, media, and organizations.
    Notable Feature(s): News and resources on many themes of universal importance, including Cultural diversity and Global ethics.
    Contact Information:
    The Netherlands
    Email: kvc@support.nl

  • The Visionaries
    http://www.visionaries.org/
     The Visionaries is a nonprofit television production organization dedicated to producing innovative programming about individuals and organizations working to create positive social change throughout the world. The nationally broadcast public television series seeks to discover the magic that occurs when one human being helps another.
    The Visionaries is not a typical television series. Through in-depth interviews with those actively engaged in providing medical care, feeding the hungry, educating children and adults, creating economic opportunity, and offering hope to people around the globe, The Visionaries provides an insightful look into the heart of an organization, exploring what makes it tick. Time and time again, The Visionaries shows that "ordinary" people are making a difference.
    The Visionaries has shot in 27 countries on 6 continents and 45 American cities. Also The Visionaries has announced the launch of the first U.S.-based media channel devoted entirely to telling the stories of philanthropic organizations online.
    Notable Feature(s): Articles on effective programs around the world and links to the organizations and individuals behind them; news; academic programs in philanthropy and media; Visionaries Internet Channel about organizations empowering communities and inviting submission of public service announcements from other organizations wanting to broadcast their news on the Internet.
    Contact Information:
    The Visionaries, Inc.
    141 Wood Road
    Braintree, MA   02184
    USA
    Telephone: 781.356.6804   Fax: 781.843.3665
    Email: institute@visionaries.org

  • Toward Freedom - a progressive perspective on world events
    http://www.towardfreedom.com/index.htm
     The mission of Toward Freedom is to publish an international news, analysis and advocacy journal. TF seeks to strengthen and extend human justice and liberties in every sphere. Believing that freedom of imagination is the basis for a just world, TF opposes all forms of domination that repress human potential to reason, work creatively and dream.
    Notable Feature(s): Archived issues; excellent collection of links; opportunity to submit articles on human rights, social change and related topics.
    Contact Information:
    Toward Freedom
    Att: Editor
    PO Box 468
    Burlington, VT   05402-0468
    USA
    Telephone: (802) 658-2523   Fax: (802) 658-3738
    Email: MavMedia@aol.com / TFmag@aol.com

  • Video Volunteers
    http://www.creativevisions.org/videovols.htm
     http://www.creativevisions.org/index.htm
     VIDEO VOLUNTEERS is dedicated to spreading the use of video as a tool to alleviate poverty in the developing world. In the 1990s, a World Bank survey asked thousands of the poorest of the poor to identify the biggest hurdle to their advancement. Above even food and shelter, the number one problem cited was access to a "voice." The Video Volunteers project is about giving a voice not only to the voiceless but also to the people who fight for them.
    In 2003 Video Volunteers successfully piloted the program at the organizations of two Ashoka Fellows from India. VV made one promotional film for Akanksha, the Bombay slum children's supplementary education program. They also made an advocacy film for I-CARD, an Assamese citizen sector organization working to strengthen the cultural identity of the Mising tribe who live along the banks of the Brahmaputra. I-CARD was given video training and is now working on its own productions.
    Another project, Video SEWA, is India's most exciting grassroots video project: a cooperative of mostly illiterate women have shot, edited, and conceptualized nearly a hundred training and empowerment films for poor women in Gujarat.
    The goal of Video Volunteers is both to help citizen organizations communicate better and to share vital information both within and beyond their local communities. The videos will be streamed on One World TV, the leading Internet television station, which will become a hub for those using video in poverty alleviation.
    Notable Feature(s): Projects from Creative Visions Productions, a multimedia production company based in Los Angeles and London that specializes in projects with social or humanitarian relevance; GlobalTribeNet, the first global network of young social entrepreneurs.
    Contact Information:
    Kathy Eldon, Executive Producer
    Creative Visions
    1223 Sunset Plaza Drive
    West Hollywood, CA   90069
    U.S.A. Fax: 310.652.8020
    Email: videovolunteers@yahoo.com

  • Virtual Villages
    http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/virtualvillages/
     A compelling and comprehensive presentation of issues and initiatives surrounding information technologies in the developing countries.

  • Voice of America - VOA
    http://www.voa.gov/
     News and features from all the language services of the VOA.
    Notable Feature(s): Valuable contact information on VOA offices and staff worldwide.
    Contact Information:
    Voice of America
    U.S. Information Agency
    Washington, DC   20547
    USA
    Telephone: 202.619.2538   Fax: 202.619.1241
    Email: pubaff@ibb.gov

  • Why Newspapers Are Betting on Audience Participation - By Katharine Q. Seelye
    http://www.changemakers.net/library/temp/nyt070405.cfm
     This July 2005 article reports on the growing phenomenon of U.S. newspapers looking to online forums and other participatory strategies to improve their business models and community relevance.

  • Working Group on Development Technologies (WOT)
    http://snt.student.utwente.nl/~wot/index.html
     The WOT is active in the field of sustainable energy and international development. WOT gives free advice on these subjects to people and organizations in the global South: solar energy, wind energy and hydro power.
    Notable Feature(s): A service provided by a Canadian development organization and research institute: A how-to guide for receiving Web pages by E-mail.
    Contact Information:
    Working Group on Development Techniques
    Vrijhof 205/206
    P.O.Box 217
    7500 AE Enschede
    The Netherlands
    Telephone: +31 53 489 2845   Fax: +31 53 489 2671
    Email: WOT@tdg.utwente.nl

  • World Space Foundation
    http://www.worldspace.org/default.htm
     Working with international, national, and non-governmental organizations, the WorldSpace Foundation has a unique capability to provide access to education and information programs to large audiences in remote areas, using new communication technologies. Its mission is to help improve the lives of disadvantaged persons in developing regions of the world by providing access to education and other information broadcast directly to radios from satellites.
    In Africa, WorldSpace Foundation helps bridge the digital divide by partnering with African education and development groups to deliver distance education and social development information via the Africa Learning Channel. The AfriStar™ satellite has three beams that cover the entire continent of Africa and the Middle East. In addition, the foundation has channel capacity on two additional WorldSpace satellites: AsiaStar™, which will serve Asia Pacific, and AmeriStar™, which will cover Latin America and the Caribbean. AsiaStar™was launched on March 21, 2000 and launch of AmeriStar™ is scheduled for early to mid 2001.
    Notable Feature(s): Articles on using communication technology for social development.
    Contact Information:
    WorldSpace Foundation
    2400 N Street, NW
    Washington, DC   20037
    USA
    Telephone: 202.861.2261   Fax: 202.861.6407
    Email: gmhillman@worldspace.org

  • WorldLinkTV
    http://www.worldlinktv.com/
     http://www.itvs.org/about/worldlink.html
     WorldLink TV, a nonprofit television channel, offers independent, issue-driven programs from around the world. The first international, public affairs channel for Americans and the first to expose American independent work to international audiences, WorldLink TV provides 24-hour a day coverage of the environment, human rights, international security and global culture. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) mandated that DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) providers offer 4% of their channel capacity to qualified nonprofits for educational or informational programming by December 15, 1999. In response, ITVS joined with Internews Network, Inc. (a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that supports independent television stations around the world) to form Link Media. One of nine nonprofit groups formally awarded a television channel, Link Media launched WorldLink TV on December 15, 1999. Airing on DBS providers DirecTV and The Dish Network, WorldLink offers globally focused, viewer responsive programming - including current affairs stories, documentaries, narratives and music videos. Long-term programming goals include producing interactive talk shows, news and commentary, supported by web-based archives and multiple language tracks.
    Notable Feature(s): E-newsletter; extensive program descriptions of films and videos about issues of social concern; distribution information and linked opportunities for action and involvement.
    Contact Information:
    Link Media, Inc.
    P.0. Box 150188
    San Rafael, CA   94915-0188
    USA
    Telephone: 415.457.5222   Fax: 415.457.6810
    Email: contact@WorldLinkTV.com

  • Youth Making Media
    http://www.mediachannel.org/affiliates/spotlight/01-front.shtml
     An excellent overview of organizations working with young people to increase their knowledge of and exposure to media and the opportunities offered by media to be full and independent partners in every aspect of civil society, effective governance, activism, and the creation and dissemination of work that represents youth and their concerns.
    Notable Feature(s): Excellent collection of links.
    Contact Information:
    Andrew Levy
    Email: andrew@mediachannel.org

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