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	<description>a mobile radio and telecentre on three wheels!</description>
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		<itunes:summary>a mobile radio and telecentre on three wheels!</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Asian Voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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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 is a Stockholm Challenge Finalist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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The Stockholm Challenge Award 2008 announces 145 projects in six categories
Stockholm March 25, 2008. The jury of the Stockholm Challenge Award has selected the 2008 finalists in six categories, a total of 145 outstanding ICT projects. They are presented on the Challenge Event site at http://event.stockholmchallenge.se per category.All finalist projects are invited to come to Stockholm and [...]]]></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>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>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>
		<link>http://www.etuktuk.net/etuktuk-featured-in-unesco-photo-study-publication/</link>
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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>creating harmony in the community</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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This video outlines the recent activities of the Kothmale Community Radio Station. Featuring interviews with staff and management of the station it follows one of the stations announcers into a Tamil Tea Estate community in central Sri Lanka. Using the stations etuktuk, a mobile telecentre and radio production studio, the community participate in [...]]]></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>the etuktuk story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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This short introductory video highlights the functionality of the etuktuk, a mobile telecentre and radio production studio operating out of the Kothmale Community Radio Station in Sri Lanka. The video was filmed and edited on location with special thanks to Sam de Silva.
]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing community participation in radio broadcasting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 12:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A three-day workshop on community broadcasting aimed at developing the capacities of regional and community radio broadcasters in Sri Lanka was recently held in Kothmale Community Radio (KCR).
In a media environment inundated by commercial radio, how can public and community radio broadcasting cope? How can we develop participatory and community based broadcasting methodologies that cater [...]]]></description>
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