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Call for papers: Indigenous language media, language politics and democracy in Africa
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The proposed book seeks to place indigenous language media in Africa in a particular socio- historical context with a view to highlighting their role in enhancing the participation of Africans in the political process in their local environs. Significantly, the book proposes to have chapters that demonstrate(1) an understanding of the political contributions of the indigenous language media in colonial and post-colonial African contexts; (2) the (un)shaping of local language

shamba
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Shamba means small farm in Swahili. Shamba Shape Up is Kenya’s first make-over style TV programme focusing on agriculture, produced by the Mediae Company based in Nairobi.  Targeting East Africa’s rapidly growing rural and peri-urban TV audience, the show outlines a series of agricultural challenges tackling issues of livestock, poultry, crops and soil fertility, pest management, irrigation and solar power, aiming to give farmers the tools to improve their productivity

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October 16 is World Food Day, and the worldwide community radio network of AMARC has launched a broadcast campaign to cover the event. In partnership with FAO, AMARC has called all members of its network to produce and broadcast programs on their communities on October 16, 2012 and share them with the entire AMARC network via the web. The radios were invited to produce a program under this year’s World

Latin American conference on communication studies
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Santiago, Chile, will host the UC-ICA Latin American conference to discuss Trends in International and Latin American Communication Studies. The conference, organized by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile’s School of Communications, in collaboration with the International Communication Association (ICA) will be held from 18 to 20 October 2012 at the School of Communications in Santiago, in the campus Casa Central, Alameda 340 (see http://www.uc.cl/es/mapas). . This will be the

2013 Malmö ComDev master - applications by October 16
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Interested in studying the Communication for Development masters programme at Malmö University starting January 2013? The closing date for applications is October 16th. The Communication for Development master’s at Malmö University is an integrated distance learning programme of 60 ECTS programme studied part-time over two years. Lectures and seminars taking place in Malmö, Sweden, are combined with live streamed online lectures and online tuition. Find out more about the Master

Ohio ComDev Master celebrates its 25th anniversary
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The Communication and Development Studies MA program at Ohio University completed its 25th year and will celebrate this occasion with a day-long event on Friday, October 26th. During the day papers, panels, and related proposals focusing on the theme of development communication (i.e., communication for development, C4D, media for social change) will be presented. The agenda includes panels reflecting the diversity of the career paths of the Master alumni, and

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SM Foundation Nepal is organizing 6thInternational Conference on “Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Development and Education” on Nov 13-15, 2012 in order to create awareness and bring all  the experts and entrepreneurs in one platform.SM Foundation is a non profit and non governmental organization. For more information, please visit:http://smfon.org.np/conferenc…        

empoweradio
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A 7-week online digital course on community radio for empowerment will begin on Wednesday, October 17, 2012. It is aimed at professionals  and university students who are involved in community radio projects. The course builds on the book: “Empowerment Radio – Voices building a community” by Birgitte Jallov, author of ‘Empowerment Radio’ and initiator of Empowerhouse. Seven (7) training modules with specific sets of learning points will be used for the

International executive media and TV workshop
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The International Executive Media and TV Workshop (IEMTW) will be held on September 19-21 in Vienna, Austria. Communication practitioners, technical project staff and media focal points working for UN agencies; civil society organizations; and public institutions are welcome to join. The three-day intensive course is Center for Development Communication’s flagship course. The course provides an all-inclusive learning package that will enable participants to have better ability and understanding in dealing with