New Book: ARNIC co-founder Jonathan Aronson's new book (with Peter Cowhey of UCSD and now the Senior Counselor at USTR and a contribution by former official Don Abelson) has been published by MIT Press. The book, Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation is available for free download under a Creative Commons license at : http://www.globalinfoandtelecom.org. The authors would welcome your comments, criticisms, and corrections.
Recent Book, by Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez - Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Araba Sey: Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspertive, (MIT Press, 2006) [more info from MIT Press] Now available in Spanish
Recent Book, edited by Manuel Castells and Gustavo Cardoso: The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy (Washington DC: Johns Hopkins Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2006); also available in Portuguese as A sociedade em Rede: Do Conhecimento à Acção Política, Imprensa Nacional, Casa da Moeda, Lisboa , 2006. Includes chapters by Jonathan Taplin, Jeffrey Cole, Hernán Galperin and François Bar. (free download in both languages)
Recent Book, edited by Hernán Galperin and Judith Mariscal: Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives
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For background on the presentation, see: Bill Siemering, "What Is Community Radio?" (Oct 8th, 2007) [PDF]
Bill Siemering bio:
Bill has been a leader in U.S. public radio management, local and national program development, and fundraising for more than thirty years. His professional tenure includes thirteen years of experience in international media development in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa.
A founding member of the National Public Radio Board of Directors and author of the network’s original mission and goals, Bill led the development of All Things Considered as NPR’s first Director of Programming. He served as Vice President and Radio Station Manager of WHYY Inc. in Philadelphia, where he developed a five-year plan for the station’s growth, secured a $1 million development grant, and applied it to surpass all of the plan’s objectives. Under his leadership, Fresh Air and Terry Gross gained a nationwide audience. From 1987-92, he was executive producer of a national weekly documentary series, Soundprint, which earned over 25 national and international awards.
Bill began his international work in 1993 by assisting community radio stations in South Africa’s townships as a 1993 recipient of a five-year MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, working with the Open Society Foundation for South Africa.. He returned to South Africa in 1995 as a Knight International Journalism Fellow. From 1996-97, he served as president of the Washington, D.C.-based International Center for Journalists, a leading print and broadcast journalism training program.
More recently, Bill served for five years as a senior radio advisor for the Open Society Institute (OSI), which funds civil society initiatives in more than fifty countries and is among the world’s largest private foundations. His work with OSI took him to Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Ukraine, Macedonia and Moldova and included assessing station news and information programming, management and technical needs, journalism and management training and mentoring.
Developing Radio Partners grew out of Bill’s recognition that the development of community radio is most effective when it encompasses a sector-wide approach, building on-going relationships with the stations and in participatory collaboration with local citizens, station managers, and stakeholders. Developing Radio Partners is committed to co-creating healthy stations that strengthen communities.
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