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New Publications and Resources:
- New Mujeres de Pastapur
En los pueblos alrededor de Zaheerabad, en una zona empobrecida del estado de Andhra Pradesh, India, muy pocas mujeres de Dalit quienes son analfabetas y que se dedican a la agricultura, utilizan instrumentos de comunicaciones como el video y la radio como parte de su lucha para logar la autonomía e independencia para sus comunidades.
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In the villages around Zaheerabad, an impoverished area in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, a handful of Dalit women, illiterate, mostly dedicated to farming, are using communications tools such as video and radio as part of their struggle to achieve autonomy and self-reliance for their communities.
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Esta es la primera y única compilación de textos sobre comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social, un libro de referencia esencial en las universidades y centros de enseñanza especializados en el tema, así como para estudios de antropología, sociología o relaciones internacionales. El libro, de 1500 páginas, contiene 200 textos de 150 autores de todas las regiones del mundo; una referencia esencial tanto para los estudiosos como para los que trabajan en programas de desarrollo.
Oprima aquí para comprar esta publicación - New Voces del Magdalena: Comunicación para la Paz
"Voces del Magdalena. Comunicación para la Paz" es un video documental de 35 minutos sobre la red de emisoras comunitarias de la región del Magdalena Medio de Colombia. Esta región es tradicionalmente conocida como territorio de enfrentamiento entre guerrilleros y paramilitares, causando a lo largo de varias décadas un enorme perjuicio económico, político y social para la región.
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"Voices from the Magdalena. Communication for Peace" is a 35-minute video documentary on the community radio network in the Magdalena Media region of Colombia. The region is known because it is at the centre of confrontation between guerrilla and paramilitary forces. Decades of conflict have caused enormous economic, political and social damage to the people living in the region.
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This first-ever major reader and reference in communication for social change is suitable for university level study in communication, sociology, anthropology, international affairs, and development studies. It is also a ready reference and scholarly resource for communication practitioners and managers.
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An introduction to participatory monitoring and evaluation of communication for social change by Will Parks, Ph.d., with CFSC Consortium staff.
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Designed as an abridged version of the introductory guide Who Measures Change?, this publication is ideal for community groups perfecting their skills in communication for social change and participatory monitoring and evaluation. Edited by Ailish Byrne, Ph.D., with Consortium staff.
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An at-a-glance reference guide to participatory monitoring and evaluation of communication for social change.
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Archived Publications and Resources:
- AMARC intervention at UNESCO
On September 22, 2004, during a short meeting organised for civil society delegates, Steve Buckley, on behalf of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), presented a proposal to the draft of the cultural diversity convention. - Bibliography of Who Measures Change
An Annotated Bibiliography of Useful Websites, Reports, Books and Articles on HIV/AIDS Communication, Communication for Social Change, and Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E). - Book on Bolivian miners` radios
The Edwin Mellen Press has just published a book edited and translated by Alan O'Connor, a member of Our Media. The book has a Foreword on the role of radio in alterative communication by John Downing. It is titled Community Radio in Bolivia: The Miner's Radio Stations (2004). The book collects and translates for English readers the key articles published in Spanish on this important example of self-organized community radio. It includes the pioneering 1983 article by the Bolivian researchers Fernando Lozada and Gridvia Kuncar, an interview with a veteran broadcaster Jorge Mansilla, Alfonso Gumucio's famous transcript of a radio broadcast during the 1980 military coup, and analysis of the miners' radios as a cultural project by Lupe Cajias. The book features descriptions by Bolivian researchers of large and small radio stations. It also includes a passionate plea in 1988 for action to save the stations by Raquel Salinas. The book concludes with some reflections on the miners' radios by Alfonso Gumucio and an extensive bibliography of material in Spanish and English. Members of Our Media are encouraged to order copies from the publisher for their institution's libraries and the publisher will also send free copies to academic journals for reviewers. (Clemencia Rodriguez) - Brazil takes lead role in move to all-digital cinema
Brazil could soon have the largest network of digital cinemas in the world, thanks to new technology that does away with high printing and distribution costs. Using the latest technology, Brazil plans to open in May the largest network of digital movie theaters in the world. Read three articles on this fascinating technologic and cultural revolution. - CCS, Cuerpo de Conocimientos
Disponible ahora, el Cuerpo de Conociemientos del CCS. - Celebrating Communication for Social and Environmental Change
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, Managing Director "“ Programs, Communication for Social Change Consortium, was the keynote speaker at the Symposium "Celebrating Communication for Social and Environmental Change" at the University of Guelph, Canada. - CFSC Consortium Brochure - French Version
Le Consortium de la Communication pour le Changement Sociale (Consortium CFSC) est une organisation globale à but non lucratif dont l'objectif est d'aider les personnes vivant dans les communautés pauvres et marginalisées à utiliser la communication pour améliorer leurs conditions de vie. Vous trouverez ci-dessous la plaquette de présentation du Consortium CFSC donnant des informations quant à sa mission, sa vision, sa stratégie et ses domaines d'intervention. - CFSC Body of Knowledge online database
Available now, the CFSC Body of Knowledge online database. - CFSC Consortium Brochure - English Version
The Communication for Social Change Consortium is a non-profit organization dedicated to help develop poor and marginalized communities; by allowing them to use their voice to better their lives. The following is the Consoritum's brochure which explains our mission, our vision, the Consortium's strategy and how we work. - CFSC Consortium Brochure - Spanish Version
El Consorcio de Comunicación para el Cambio Social es una organización global sin fines de lucro dedicada a desarrollar comunidades empobrecidas y marginadas a usar la comunicación para mejorar sus vidas. Lo siguiente es el folleto del Consorcio cual explica su misión, visión, estrategia y áreas del trabajo para nuestros visitantes de habla hispana. - Communication and Social Change: A Position Paper and Conference Report
This paper argues that communication for social change is a distinct way of doing communication - and one of the few approaches that can be sustained because ownership of both the message and the medium - the content and the process - resides with the individuals or communities affected. - Communication and Social Change: Forging Strategies for the 21st Century - A Report on a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference April 21-25, 1997
This report details the results of a conference involving a small group of social change activists, community organizers, communication professionals, Internet experts, film makers, broadcasters, electronic frontiers people, reporters/editors and social entrepreneurs who came together to explore ways communication can be used to effect sustained, long-term, positive social change. - Communication for Social Change Principles: An Overview Course
CFSC Consortium Introduces New Course for Practitioners During "Trial Run" at University of West Indies "“Mona in Kingston, Jamaica - Communication for Social Change Working Paper Series: A case study in communication for social change
Talking Cure: A troubled city puts its trust in civic dialogue and community-based decision making - Communication for Social Change: An Integrated Model for Measuring the Process and Its Outcomes
This report provides a practical resource for community organizations, communication professionals and social-change activists working in development projects to assess the progress and the effects of their programs. - Communication for Social Change: The New Communicator
Whatever we plan for the future in terms of social change should associate in one strategy the objective of social change, the knowledge of new technologies and the process of communication - Communication for the Abandonment Of Female Genital Cutting
Neil Ford, UNICEF's Regional Advisor for Programme Communication in Eastern and Southern Africa, advocates using communication for social change based on human rights principles to help stop female genital cutting, a practice that violates the right of young women to sexual and reproductive health. - Comunicación para el Cambio Social: Clave del Desarrollo Participativo
Dos corrientes principales se distinguen durante las cinco décadas pasadas: por una parte una comunicación inspirada en las teorías de la modernización y en técnicas derivadas de las estrategias de información utilizadas por el gobierno de Estados Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y por la industria norteamericana para publicitar sus productos comerciales; y por otra, una comunicación nacida de las luchas sociales anticoloniales y antidictatoriales del Tercer Mundo, que tienen su referente académico en las teorías de la dependencia. - Encyclopédie sur la Communication pour le Changement Social
Maintenant disponible : la banque de données en ligne de l'encyclopédie de la CFSC. - Family Tree of Theories, Methodologies & Strategies in Development Communication: Convergences & Differences
Participatory theories also criticized the modernization paradigm on the grounds that it promoted a top-down, ethnocentric and paternalistic view of development. - Haciendo Olas "“ Historias de Comunicación Participativa para el Cambio Social
A través de las cincuenta experiencias descritas, "Haciendo Olas" examina proyectos innovadores de comunicación para el cambio social en àfrica, Asia y América Latina. El libro ofrece un análisis de los métodos y los medios usados para alentar cambios sociales, y de los obstáculos que enfrenta la comunicación para el cambio social. La información está organizada por año, por medio de comunicación, y por país. Es un libro informativo tanto para académicos como para quienes ejercen la comunicación desde la práctica. " Making Waves no pretende ser una referencia definitiva", afirma Denise Gray Felder, Directora de Comunicación de la Fundación Rockefeller. "Alfonso Gumucio ha escrito una excelente guía de las estrategias de comunicación participativa que se utilizan en el terreno. - How to Do Community Radio
Community radio has a special place in UNESCO's programs. The aim of UNESCO's community radio program is to address crucial social issues at a community level, such as poverty and social exclusion, empower marginalized rural groups and catalyze democratic processes and development efforts.
The author of this primer, Mr. Louis Tabing is a pioneer in both the concept and the practice of community radio in his country, the Philippines and much wider. He was the Tambuli project officer and has trained many other community radio stations to start and run their operations. - III Congreso Panamericano de Ciencias de la Comunicación
"Integración comercial o diálogo cultural ante el desafío de la Sociedad de la Información" - La Radio Pública Local
Tiene muchísima lógica que si entendemos la descentralización y el fortalecimiento del poder local como una manera de estimular la participación ciudadana en los asuntos que tienen que ver con su desarrollo social, cultural y económico, la radio local sea también una responsabilidad asumida por los municipios, como lo son la educación, la salud y la cultura. El derecho a la información puede ser mejor servido desde un concepto de cercanía y participación de la sociedad civil, y para ello, los municipios tienen que invertir y abrir las puertas a la comunidad. En el caso de Bolivia, como en España, esto sería factible a través de las organizaciones territoriales de base (OTB) y los consejos de vigilancia conformados por ciudadanos. - Libro sobre radios mineras
Acaba de salir un libro sobre las radios mineras de Bolivia editado por Alan O`Connor (miembro de OURMedia). El libro, titulado "Community Radio in Bolivia: The Miner's Radio Stations" incluye un pròlogo escrito por John Downing (también miembro de OURMedia). El libro compila traducciones al inglès de los textos mà s importantes que se han escrito en español sobre las radios mineras, haciendo asì accesible a los lectores angloparlantes este caso tan importante de radio comunitaria en Latinoamerca. El libro incluye los textos pioneros escritos por los investigadores bolivianos Fernando Lozada y Gridvia Kuncar, una entrevista con el radialista veterano Jorge Mansilla, las famosas transcripciones de Alfonso Gumucio de las transmisiones de las radios durante el golpe militar de 1983, y anà lisis de las radios de Lupe Cajias. Miembros de OURMedia pueden comprar copias para sus bibliotecas institucionales en la siguiente pà gina web; asì mismo, la casa editorial ofrece copias gratis para revistas acadèmicas que estèn dispuestas a hacer una reseña. (Clemencia Rodriguez) - Media, freedom and poverty: A Latin American perspective
Media conglomerates grow bigger by the day, while alternative options are crushed with legal arguments drawn by the marry alliance between private media and government servants. It has taken many years for emblematic intellectuals, such as Ignacio Ramonet, to acknowledge that the so-called "˜fourth power' has colluded with economic and political interests, and to suggest that we need to build from scratch a "˜fifth power' that will genuinely represent people. This paper was presented by Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron, Managing Director , at the conference Media, Freedom and Poverty in Developing Countries, hosted by The Rockefeller Foundation, Panos and The Communication for Social Change Consortium, in Bellagio (Italy), October 2-5, 2003. - Missing the Message? 20 years of learning from HIV/AIDS
After years of neglect, more money and political interest is being directed towards AIDS than ever before. But is today's response to the pandemic learning from the lessons of the past, lessons now stretching back over 20 years? Large sums of money have been spent on activities aiming to achieve rapid results. Often the results have been disappointing or short lived. - Next Steps in Advocating Communication for Social Change at the Community Level: Building the Body of Knowledge
In May 2004, the Communication for Social Change Consortium (the Consortium) convened a meeting of authors and scholars in communication for development to discuss and select pieces for an anthology with the aim of creating an academic reference resource of communication for social change for scholars and practitioners around the world. Approximately 100 texts on communication for development, participatory communication, citizens' media, and community media were pre-selected. With a focus on theoretical essays as opposed to case studies, the strategy was to trace the concept of communication for social change from its origins, looking back 40 to 50 years if necessary. The end goal was to select 50 essays that are key to the understanding of communication for social change. A panel* of 12 met for 3 days with the editors of the anthology and the Consortium to determine the 50 final texts to be published. - Ondes de Choc
histoires sur la communication participative pour le changement social
À travers les cinquante expériences décrites ici, « Ondes de Choc » examine des projets innovateurs de communication pour le changement social en Afrique, Asie et Amérique latine. Ce livre offre une analyse des médias et des méthodes utilisés, ainsi que les obstacles qui vont a l'encontre de l'usage efficace de la communication pour le changement sociale. Certaines ont été directement observées, l'information sur les autres ayant été obtenue par courrier électronique, fax, téléphone et Internet. L'Amérique latine est en tête par la quantité et la qualité des expériences de communication participative, et la radio a été parmi tous les médias, le plus important pour le développement et les changements sociaux. Les critères de sélection ont été conçus pour identifier les expériences ayant une forte composante d'« appropriation » par la communauté. Certaines expériences avaient pour objectif final l'« appropriation » communautaire, mais elles n'avaient pas encore atteint ce niveau de développement au moment de la recherche. - What can ICTs do for the rural poor?
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, managing director of the Communication for Social Change Consortium, presented several papers at the recently held World Summit of the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland. Gumucio is a widely recognized as a leading writer, scholar and practitioner of innovative communication, especially methods that are participatory and based on community-owned solutions. His address to the IFAD session appears below. - World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD), Rome, October 2006
The Consortium holds a seat on on the steering committee for the World Congress on Communication for Development to be held in Rome, Italy in October 2006. Below is a Call for Proposals and Abstracts for this Congress. We strongly encourage people working with community-based communication initiatives to submit proposals or abstracts "“ especially for initiatives that demonstrate the effectiveness of communication for social change and of participatory methods in general. - XV International AIDS Conference Press Release, July 12, 2004
The Consortium, along with Panos Institutes and WHO, hosted a session on integrating prevention and treatment communication approaches, during the XV International AIDS Conference being held this week in Bangkok, Thailand.