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		<title>Asian Voices</title>
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“Asian Voices” is a monthly radio magazine programme produced by the Asian Media  Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) from Singapore. It brings you news,  views and interviews on Asian media and communication issues from an Asian  perspective. In this first issue of “Asian Voices” Kalinga Seneviratne joins the ‘etuktuk’ team at  [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>ldquo;Asian Voicesrdquo; is a monthly radio magazine programme produced by the Asian Media  Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) from Singapore. It brings you news, ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>ldquo;Asian Voicesrdquo; is a monthly radio magazine programme produced by the Asian Media  Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) from Singapore. It brings you news,  views and interviews on Asian media and communication issues from an Asian  perspective. In this first issue of ldquo;Asian Voicesrdquo; Kalinga Seneviratne joins the lsquo;etuktukrsquo; team at  Kothmale Community Radio in Sri Lanka on a live broadcast from a Tamil tea  estate community in the hills. Also included in the program are the following segments:





 a)
Vox Pops on whether radio is a dying art


 b)
Mike Pedero, chief broadcaster of  the National Broadcasting Corporation in the Philippines reflects on this point,  as well as Haan Tran, head of Radio Australia.


 c)
Kudsia Kahar, general manager  of AMP Radio Malaysia talks about the threat to radio coming from politicians  rather than new technology.


d)
Jace Au, head of public affairs at Radio  Television Hong Kong talks to Asian Voicesrsquo;s Tharuka Prematileka about how radio  could respond to the digital age.


 e)
Evelyn Agato station manager of Radyo  Pilipinas overseas services explains how her radio station links overseas  Filipino workers with their kith and kin back home.


 f)
Prateek Dubey and Naren Katara, two MBA students from the Mudra Institute of Communications in India  explain how their studentsrsquo; community radio station links with the adjoining  villages.


g)
Asia Voicesrsquo;s Kalinga Seneviratne joins the lsquo;eTuk         Tukrsquo; team at  Kothmale Community Radio in Sri Lanka on a live broadcast from a Tamil tea  estate community in the hills.


This programme is produced and presented by Dr  Kalinga Seneviratne, Head of Research at AMIC and a former radio broadcaster.  Production assistance by Tharuka Prematileka, Research Assistant at AMIC. This  programme could be downloaded and broadcast in full or in segments, free of  charge, by any non-profit public or community radio broadcaster in Asia and  around the world. If you do broadcast please let us know time and date of  broadcast, just for our records.

We also welcome contributions from Asian radio  stations and radio producers. At the moment the programme is produced entirely  on a voluntary basis, but, we may commission special features for a fee in the  future. For more information, feedback and contributions, please contact Kalinga  Seneviratne ndash; email: kalinga@amic.org.sg Ph: 65 ndash; 6792 7570.
To learn more visit the AMIC Alternative Media Portal and listen to Asian Voices.

Read a full transcript from the etuktuk segment below:

Nar:nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Meanwhile in Sri Lanka, Kothmale Community Radio is the third tier of public service broadcastingnbsp; via the national network ndash; the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. In recent years, this community radio station has attracted worldwide publicity for their innovative programming blending traditional radio broadcasting with digital and internet technology. Their latest project is the lsquo;etuk tukrdquo; mobile radio studio, which broadcasts live programming from surrounding village communities, and, thus creating harmony between various ethnic communities. .

Recently I joined one of their production teams when they went to a tea estate Tamil community to broadcast a live programme.

Cut 14 ndash; KCR announcernbsp;nbsp;nbsp; (0rsquo;10rdquo;)
(fade down under voice)

Nar:nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; In this tea growing hill country about 150 kilometers from Colombo, a government run community radio station is creating harmony between the Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim communities. They are doing it by taking radio to the community.

Cut 15 ndash; sound of etuk tuk

Nar:nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; This is the sound of the three-wheeler, popular in Sri Lanka as a cheap taxi service. But, at Kothmale community radio they have turned this vehicle into a digital mobile radio studio, to take their radio statio...</itunes:summary>
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		<title>The etuktuk delivers results!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Examination Department released the Grade V scholarship examination results and they made it available on the Internet. As in the previous years many parents came to the CMC to get the results of their child sooner because it takes about two to three days for the result sheets to be delivered to schools via post. CMC charged Rs. 20 for a result with a Printout.

As this was happening I remembered an incident which happened last year. When I visited in the etuktuk to the rural village “lagumdeniya” to capture the moments of a village Sunday school prize giving festival I met a chatty little boy. He had done the grade five exam and was waiting for the results to come to the school. But the results have already been put on the Internet about one week back. I asked him whether he knew it or not. He said he knew but does not have access to the facilities so he had to wait until the results come to the school. All the students living in the urban areas get their results on the same day it is released but the story is different for the rural areas.]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Tamil community participation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a busy day for me. KCR had organized a small workshop for the local public librarians in the Gampola area. We were suppose to talk about the use of new technologies in the field of radio and how the same technologies can be use in the public library&#8217;s. In the same day etuktuk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Storytelling &#8211; Fieldnotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I thought of visiting the Kanapathiwata tea estate line houses to test some of the Digital stories. Pavi had made a Digital story from our last visit to Riverside line houses. We thought of showing the Digital story to the kanapathiwatta people and see how the feedback is.
We left the station at around 3.00 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day with the etuktuk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a partly cloudy day and we were afraid that rain would interfere with our journey. We had planned several visits to nearby locations in the etuktuk. Our first destination was to a daycare center located in a nearby tea estate. Estate people leave their children in this day care centre when they go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A visit to the Kurunduwatta village</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kosala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We started our journey at about 1.00p.m. Destination was a temple in Kurunduwatta. Kurunduwatta is about 15 km from Gampola and it’s a suburban area situated in the Dolosbage Mountains. Fore of us traveled in the etuktuk, Asanka the driver, Anil the program producer, Prasanna volunteer, and me. The road was hilly and we had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>etuktuk visits Weliganga Village</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2006 05:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kosala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I reached Kothmale on 10 May, the eTukTuk was already in its lair &#8212; a converted kitchen in the Kothmale CR building &#8212; having been driven the 150 odd kilometers from Colombo to Kothmale by a visibly tired Ben and his crew. But there was work to be done &#8212; a field broadcast was [...]]]></description>
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