Radio Hacktive (Fr-Es-En)

This is a project for Arduino and Raspberry Pi to make an Internet Radio, aimed at intermediate skill level. Some familiarity with Linux usage will be beneficial (or access to someone who can help out if required).

Raspberry Pi runs mpd music player daemon to receive and decode the internet radio stream.
ALSA running on the Raspberry Pi provides the sound through either the Jack Socket or the HDMI output.

Arduino runs a nanpy interface code to interface with Python, providing Text output of the Radio Station playing and Button inputs to control Playback.

Objectives:
* Learn how to use the mpd/mpc on the Raspberry Pi
* Learn how to use the nanpy library for Python to interface the Pi to the Arduino
* Make a Cool Internet Radio

Help broadcast the message of UNESCO’s Director-General on World Radio Day in all public, private and community radio. (Forthcoming)

Broadcast messages from World Radio Day supporters including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and UNESCO Artist for Peace, the renowned Panamian pianist and jazz composer Danilo Pérez.

Produce a radio programme or public service announcement on one of UNESCO’s themes for World Radio Day 2013 to be broadcast repeatedly on 13 February 2013.

Organize and broadcast World Radio Day themed debates and discussions with media stakeholders (broadcasters, policy-makers, academics, legal community).

Organize phone-in radio shows so listeners can discuss the importance of radio and share memories of great moments in radio history.

Interview local, regional and national radio personalities on World Radio Day.

Share recordings of your radio show and other World Radio Day themed broadcasts on UNESCO’s World Radio Day SoundCloud page. (Forthcoming)

Diffuse our collection of sound bites on famous UNESCO moments. (Forthcoming)

Diffuse UNESCO’s “Did you know that…” audio series on interesting radio facts. (Forthcoming)

Display and distribute Free and Open software for radio programming and scheduling through UNESCO’s Open and Free Source software portal.

Display and distribute radio training courseware from UNESCO’s Radio Production on Open Training Platform.

Display and distribute free UNESCO products about broadcasting
Publications on Community Media
Publications related to media and information literacy
Publications related to the safety of journalists
Publications produced or sponsored by UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector

Join the National Commission for UNESCO in your country to facilitate celebrating national events.

Encourage newspapers/radio/television website editors to place a banner on their sites during World Radio Day on 13 February.

Celebrate World Radio Day with the Children’s Radio Foundation, the World Association of Community Broadcasters (AMARC) or local community radio associations.

Substantial numbers of young people across racial and ethnic groups are engaging in “participatory politics” — acts such as starting a political group online, circulating a blog about a political issue, or forwarding political videos to friends, according to the largest nationally representative study of new media and politics among young people.

Innovative communication and information technologies are no longer luxuries for big radio stations,” says Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO. Through a UNESCO project, staff at modest radio stations like Iso-Community Radio in a remote Northern province of Zambia will be trained to use new media and mobile phones to improve their broadcasts.

Crowd-sourcing. Co-creation. User-generated content. No matter which of those buzzwords you prefer, the underlying idea is essentially the same: In the world of commercial media, more and more companies are inviting users to help produce the content that they use. What is Facebook, after all, but an immense platform that allows users to operate simultaneously as generators and consumers of information? Or think of the way that most mainstream media outlets now encourage their readers and viewers to submit news tips, video clips, and the like. In short, the line between professional producers and amateur consumers has blurred considerably in recent years.

Local rural radio, which has Internet access, is emerging as one such successful intermediary because it is accessible, affordable and cheap to produce. Further, radio is a mass and an oral medium that promotes community interaction and social communication processes. Radio and Internet can benefit from each other in the following ways:

- Internet resources for radios to exchange information and programming, such as InterWorld Radio, providing access to a huge range of journalists’ reports on a variety of topics;

- Radios using the Internet to provide a variety of information to their listeners; a well-known example is the UNESCO-supported Kothmale Internet Project in Sri Lanka.

Jānis Kārkliņs, Assistant Director General of Communication and Information of UNESCO, explained how his and other organizations can support both mainstream and social media.
• Create an environment allowing media to be free and editorially independent.
• Ensure that journalists, bloggers and citizens using social media networks can exercise their right to free speech safely and without hindrance.
• Training journalists but also government officials, law enforcement agents and militaries on issues related to freedom of expression and freedom of media.
• Training users in media literacy to enable them to navigate the deluge of information so that they “can distill what is right, what is wrong, which is correct and which is false”.
“We’re developing a theory of media and information literacy. This issue should be in the curriculum of every school. People must be able to assess good from bad information. People tend to rely on whatever source of information they have.”

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“There’s lots the media can do to promote human rights without being political.”

The Knight News Challenge winner will experiment with using cheap tools and existing networks to produce radio programming through mobile devices.

Les usages ne sont plus ce qu'ils étaient. C'est une banalité de le dire, c'est aussi une constatation ordinaire : ils changent tout le temps. Le numérique (au sens large) a engendré tout un tas de basculements/bousculements dans notre façon de vivre et de partager de l'information, de comprendre les dynamiques de territoires, et de s'approprier des outils de publication pour ne pas s'en remettre à des tiers - experts, journalistes, institutionnels de tout poil - pour essayer de saisir ce qui se trame ici ou là.

The capacity building project aims to address local radios’ lack of quality programming, in particular scarcity of reporting on development issues and limited debate platforms for the poor.

Last February Sweden, through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), concluded an agreement under which 30 million Swedish Kronor (around US$4.5 million) will be donated to UNESCO to support its activities in the field of community media, aiming at empowering poor populations, especially women and girls, to exercise freedom of expression and opinion, and be heard in the public debate.

How civilians helped win the Libyan information war.

Communication at the heart of change explains the essential role that information and communication plays in development. Sustainable development demands that people participate in the debates and decisions that affect their lives. They need to be able to receive information, but also to make their voices heard. But the poor are often excluded from these processes by geography and lack of resources or skills. The video explores what can happen when poor and marginalised people are listened to, and given access to the information they need.

Credits
Animantion: Sebastian Camilleri and James Finch
Voice over: Christina Dixon and Laurence Grissell

Information and Communication Technologies, Poverty and Development: Learning from Experience...

New ICTs certainly add both to the ways in which existing media organizations can reach, and interact with, their audiences, and to the options for creating new types of news and information services....

Community radio networks can give voice to those who were previously limited to being passive listeners, and can increase access to locally-relevant and contextual information and viewpoints...

The relationship between the news business and the charity sector has been drastically changed by internet technology. As traditional media has seen its business model undermined and been forced to close international bureaux, NGOs have realised the opportunities to become broadcasters themselves, publishing their material online and diffusing it through social media. Suddenly it is the NGOs, rather than the news media, which have the money to fly photojournalists on foreign assignments in search of images that will support an important campaign.