2007

Community Radio to Broadcast live from Sangonet Annual Conference

Third Annual SANGONeT “ICT for Civil Society” Conference and Exhibition Media Release 28 June 2007 The Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT) will host its third annual "ICTs for Civil Society" Conference and Exhibition from 17-18 July 2007 at the Wanderers Club in Illovo, Johannesburg. The theme of the 2007 event is “Applications for the Development Sector”. The conference will coincide with SANGONeT’s twentieth anniversary celebrations, and will reflect on the progress that South African non-governmental organisation (NGOs) have made over the past 20 years in adopting and integrating ICTs in their work.

SA Community Radio present paper at UNESCO Media Education Conference

Bush Radio was recently asked to present a paper at an international meeting organised by the French Commission for UNESCO in partnership with UNESCO, and with the support of the French Ministry of Education and the Council of Europe. The meeting was held from the 21 - 22 June 2007 at the Centre de Conférences Internationales, Paris, France. The title of the meeting was MEDIA EDUCATION: Advances, Obstacles, and new trends since Grunwald: Towards a scale of change? Below is a copy of the paper and a link (youtube) to the short video that was presented at the meeting. Link for video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om-iRFMxrwQ (trainee production)

NCRF and SAMRO plans joint provincial station vissits

NCRF as a advocacy and lobby forum, approached SAMRO in an effort to assist in facilitating a national outreach campaign. As part of SAMRO's efforts to ensure committment to excellence and trusting relationships for the convenience of stations, they would like to have your contributions in our plan to conduct workshops with all the community radio stations in each province. For any further info please contact Mpho Mhlongo at mpho@ncrf.org.za or call him at 011 403 4336