tailieunhanh - Community Television for the poor – A Scoping Study Final Technical Report

Is this use of television vital for the community information needs? In R8069, the survey included comment on various sources or means of finding information – about important subjects. Table 6 demonstrates that TV is seen as a source of information although lower ranking in importance than face to face communication, and radio. This is not surprising given the relative ratios of television to radio. What is perhaps slightly surprising is that television as a source is used by as many people (if not slightly more) than newspapers. This may reflect literacy rates | Community Television for the poor - A Scoping Study Final Technical Report the one to watch - literally FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT Contract Number R8351 Research Team S Batchelor Gamos N Scott Gamos G Eastwick Gamos Project Team C Armstrong LINK Centre Wits University Johannesburg R Otsyina DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES LIMITED Tanzania O Sakyi Dawson University of Ghana L Figueroa de Pacheco ARCA M Webb Big World D Rushton Institute of Local Television UK Funded by Department for International Development DFID No 1 Palace Street London SW1E 5HE UK Gamos Ltd Crown House 231 Kings Road Reading RG1 4LS UK I J t B I I n l e rofl I i o na I I I 0 lopni rnt This research can be found at Research Team S Batchelor Gamos N Scott Gamos G Eastwick Gamos Project Team C Armstrong LINK Centre Wits University Johannesburg http R Otsyina DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES LIMITED Tanzania O Sakyi Dawson University of Ghana L Figueroa de Pacheco ARCA M Webb Big World D Rushton Institute of Local Television UK This document is an output from a project funded by the UK Department for International Development DFID for the benefit of developing countries. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the DFID. Copyright 2005 1. Executive Summary The Purpose of the research was to explore the opportunities presented by digital convergence for locally produced and broadcast integrated television radio for development education development communication strategies and local content capture among the poor. The starting premises of the research were - Community radio is known to have strong developmental benefits There is a strong trend towards television even among the poor There will be new opportunities for audiovisual media presented by digital convergence These propositions together resulted in the question Will there be widespread deployment of such a thing as Community Television and if so what might be its shape what