Kothmale Community Radio Interorg Project: True Community Radio or Feel-Good Propaganda?

The Kothmale Community Radio and Interorg project in Sri Lanka has been hailed as an example of how a community radio initiative should function in a developing nation. However, there is some question about whether the Kothmale Community Interorg Project is a true community radio initiative that emp...

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Autor principal:	Liz Francisca Rosalia Harvey-Carter
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2009
Materias:	Kothmale Community Radio Sri Lanka ICT Kothmale Interorg Project Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/48a74dd5e478451095be6b56f2d07ecd
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:48a74dd5e478451095be6b56f2d07ecd2021-12-02T18:03:18ZKothmale Community Radio Interorg Project: True Community Radio or Feel-Good Propaganda?10.19173/irrodl.v10i1.5551492-3831https://doaj.org/article/48a74dd5e478451095be6b56f2d07ecd2009-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/555https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The Kothmale Community Radio and Interorg project in Sri Lanka has been hailed as an example of how a community radio initiative should function in a developing nation. However, there is some question about whether the Kothmale Community Interorg Project is a true community radio initiative that empowers local communities to access ICT services and to participate freely and equally or another “feel-good” project controlled by successive, repressive Sri-Lankan governments and international partners, as alleged by its critics? After two decades of operation, the evidence shows that the Kothmale project is a cautionary tale about what can go wrong when an ICT project is not strongly promoted as a community-based enterprise. The biggest lesson that the Kothmale model can teach us is that control of community radio must be in the hands of the community exclusively if it is to succeed.Liz Francisca Rosalia Harvey-CarterAthabasca University PressarticleKothmaleCommunity RadioSri LankaICTKothmale Interorg ProjectSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 10, Iss 1 (2009)
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description	The Kothmale Community Radio and Interorg project in Sri Lanka has been hailed as an example of how a community radio initiative should function in a developing nation. However, there is some question about whether the Kothmale Community Interorg Project is a true community radio initiative that empowers local communities to access ICT services and to participate freely and equally or another “feel-good” project controlled by successive, repressive Sri-Lankan governments and international partners, as alleged by its critics? After two decades of operation, the evidence shows that the Kothmale project is a cautionary tale about what can go wrong when an ICT project is not strongly promoted as a community-based enterprise. The biggest lesson that the Kothmale model can teach us is that control of community radio must be in the hands of the community exclusively if it is to succeed.
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title	Kothmale Community Radio Interorg Project: True Community Radio or Feel-Good Propaganda?
title_short	Kothmale Community Radio Interorg Project: True Community Radio or Feel-Good Propaganda?
title_full	Kothmale Community Radio Interorg Project: True Community Radio or Feel-Good Propaganda?
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Kothmale Community Radio Interorg Project: True Community Radio or Feel-Good Propaganda?

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