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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>Podcasting on the move</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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The following is an excerpt from an article prepared by Katherine Nightingale for SciDev.net. To read the entire article click here.  
The Kothmale Community Radio project in Sri Lanka is another example of communication evolving to suit the environment, bringing the benefits of ICTs to isolated rural communities in hilly central Sri Lanka.
The project doesn&#8217;t just use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stockholm Challenge GKP Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The etuktuk was recently announced the winner of the Stockholm Challenge GKP award! We are grateful for the recognition of the challenge jury, who said the etuktuk was “a project that electronically expands the community center into isolated rural areas.&#8221; The award ceremony took place as part of the 3rd Global Knowledge Conference in Kuala [...]]]></description>
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		<title>re-inventing the wheel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tuktuk, a three-wheeled motorcycle, is a familiar sight on the streets of South Asia. Its usefulness for getting people from place to place, squeezing into the smallest lanes and over the bumpiest roads, has made it indispensable. But in the rolling hills of Kothmale in Sri Lanka, the humble tuktuk has evolved into something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>etuktuk featured in UNESCO photo publication</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNESCO releases Photo Study publication on Community Access Centres 
 
The origin of this photo-study publication lies in a simple question: “How can we best capture the exciting developments that are taking place in Community Access Centres?” 

Community Access Centres take different forms and go by different names: Community Learning Centres; Community Multimedia Centres; ICT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scaling Telecentres for Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The etuktuk project was highlighted by a recent publication from AED as an access solution in the telecentre movement.
Three                organizations, the Academy for Educational Development (AED), Microsoft®              [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Radio Rides a Popularity Wave</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time for Community Radio has truly come. The tremendously enthusiastic response that the exhibition on “Community Radio: Innovation, low cost solutions and access” got at the BES Expo -2007 earlier this month in New Delhi, India, demonstrated this loud and clear. The exhibition, organized by UNESCO in collaboration with Plan India, OneWorld South Asia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring new modalities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exploring New Modalities: Experiences with Information and Communications Technology Interventions in the Asia-Pacific Region &#8211; A Review and Analysis of the Pan-Asia ICT R&#38;D Grants Programme.
Author: Michael Dougherty

The Pan-Asia ICT R&#38;D Grants Programme for Asia-Pacific is directed at encouraging original and innovative ICT solutions to development problems. This publication reviews and analyzes 56 projects from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>etuktuk featured in i4d magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[eTukTuk– the Sri Lankan experience
Up in the central highlands of Sri Lanka, near Kandy, I came across an amazing experiment in taking the fruits of ICT directly to the poor. The eTukTuk project is part of the Kothmale Community Radio station and Multi-media Centre. A cursory look at the eTukTuk and one would be tempted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>etuktuk featured in Frontline</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[eTUKTUK, TAKING INFORMATION DOWN THE BUMPY DIRT-ROAD IN SRI LANKA
Up in the hills of Kothmale, about 25 kilometres southwest of Kandy in the central highlands of Sri Lanka, a strange hybrid vehicle can be seen sputtering along the dirt tracks of Kothmale&#8217;s villages. At first glance, it is an autorickshaw or tuktuk, a familiar sight [...]]]></description>
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