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Project
Background:
UNESCO is
piloting access to the Information Society by building on
traditional communication and information resources such as
community radios or libraries and enhancing them with modern
information and communication facilities. Community Multimedia
Centres are an efficient gateway to the Information Society and
provide for a platform on which further community
development activities such as distance learning, micro-lending
schemes and electronic commerce may be based.
Project
Objectives :
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to
empower selected marginalized communities with access to
knowledge resources, modern communication tools and training
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provide new social and economic opportunities by transforming
existing community radio stations into Community Multimedia Centres
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enforce the communication and support within the Caribbean network
and with similar UNESCO initiated networks around the world.
Participants:
In the
first phase four representative community radios in the
Caribbean have been selected to develop the core CMC network. The
core CMCs will be:
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Roots FM (Kingston, Jamaica) ; Radio Toco (Trinidad); Radio
Cocodrilo (Cuba) ;Radio GED (Barbados)
In the
second phase additional community radio stations will be invited
to join the network and by doing so establish a culture of including
new members to the network :
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Radio PAIWOMAK (Guyana) ; Radio Muye, (Suriname) ; Radio em ba Mango
(Dominica) ; Carib Community Radio (Dominica).
4. Project
Outputs as seen by UNESCO:
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Establishment of a sustainable regional network of Community
Multimedia Centres
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Production of increased local ICT and radio content
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Introduction of 40% of the local communities to modern ICTs
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Introduction to the Information Society by “Radio Browsing” and by
using new ICT services
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Sensitising of community leaders, local government representatives,
teachers, business people and learners
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Completion of guidelines on how to establish Community Multimedia
Centres in the Caribbean
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Contribution to the development of the Global Information Society
from the Caribbean civil society.
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