[cma-l] Community media and SMS text messages

[Salvatore Scifo]

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Subject: 	[creative-radio] Community media and SMS text messages
Date: 	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:22:37 -0300
From: 	Bruce Girard <boa at comunica.org>
Reply-To: 	creative-radio at yahoogroups.com
To: 	Creative Radio List <creative-radio at yahoogroups.com>



At first glance SMS text messages would seem like a natural for 
inclusion in a community radio station’s essential toolkit. SMS messages 
are inexpensive and easy-to-use and in recent years the mobile phones 
that are needed for sending and receiving them have become ubiquitous. 
However, a survey of recent projects indicates that use of SMS messages 
among community radio stations is still at an early stage. In most 
stations SMS use is informal. The few cases identified of community 
stations making more complex use of SMS messages have accompanied 
political crises or natural disasters and have inevitably been donor 
financed. There are few, if any, experiences of complex uses of SMS by 
community radio stations in the developing world without external 
funding and technical support, even though the financial and technical 
resources required are minimal.

Read the rest of this post by Bruce Girard at 
http://comunica.org/radio2.0/archives/87



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