Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail: (nameatendofline)@xs4all.nl : bakensverzet
Incorporating
innovative social, financial, economic, local administrative and productive
structures, numerous renewable energy applications, with an important role for
women in poverty alleviation in rural and poor urban environments.
"Money is not
the key that opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them"
Gesell, Silvio The
Natural Economic Order
Revised English
edition, Peter Owen, London 1958, page 228
Edition 12: 03 October,
2009
For an
example of a local radio station in India, refer to the article Radio Bundelkhand - Giving Voice to the Voiceless By Indira Mansingh, Chief Advisor, Development Alternatives, The Better
India, 2009, Cited in Sangati News Bulletin no. 3.78, 02 October, 2009
Where
political authorities have no objection, the establishment of a local radio
station is often an integral part of the project. The station is a part of the
management of communications concerning the project. Since most people in the
project areas possess a radio, radio is an excellent way to spread information
on the project developments and the management of the structures set up. It
also enables users to discuss initiatives taken and to be taken, and to express
their criticisms. It can also become a vehicle for local commerce.
In some developing countries, independent
communication may be seen by political and military authorities as a security
threat and forbidden. In other cases, political and military control may take
the form of prohibitive annual licensing fees.
The radio station will be placed in a location
in the centre of the project area so as to limit the transmission radius. A PV
operated station may be preferred to one running on "imported"
electricity, as this increases the autonomy of the station and reduces long
term financial leakage from the project area.
The management of the station will be completely
autonomous.
Without influencing this independence in any way, the
programme could indicatively comprise the following elements:
(a) Transmission of information on project activities
(news bulletins)
- Convocation of meetings for structures (tanks commissions, LETS systems etc)
- Information on decisions taken during meetings
- Information on progress made with the installation/setting up of the various
structures
- Information of interest-free micro-credits conceded
(b) Transmissions by interest groups
- Initiatives the groups wish to take
- Information on initiatives under way
(c) Information on cultural and sporting activities in
the project area
(d) Emergency services
(e) Promotion of the project towards the outside.
FINANCING
The setting up of the station is covered by a separate
item in the indicative balance sheet. The workshop will decide how this is to
be done.
Work is carried out under the local LETS money systems
- Expenses in formal currency (electricity?, equipment and the costs of running
it) would need to be paid back over 3 or 4 years. The workshop may decide to do this through:
-a) Collection of a small (formal currency)
contribution at household level.
-b) Formal money payments for services rendered to people living in the areas
surrounding the project area.
- c) Advertising by producers outside the project area towards people living in
the project area. Advertising for
producers inside the project area will normally be done under the local
money system; however, where necessary a part of these costs might be in formal
currency.
One Moraisian workshop will be held.
Indicative participation:
The Moraisian trainers.
The project coordinator.
The general consultant.
At least one representative of the NGO.
Representative of the Ministry of Communications.
At least 5 observers (possible coordinators for future projects).
20 persons indicated by the tank commissions interested in participating in the
management of the station.
50 persons indicated by the tank commissions, interested in producing
programmes for the station.
Duration of the workshop: about three weeks.
The Workshop will be expected to produce the following
structures:
a) A coordination structure
- definition of the social form
- statutes
- rules
- professional and administrative structures
- financial aspects including payments
- relations with the local money LETS systems
b) Analysis of requirements
- detailed analysis of the communications needs of the individual structures
created under the project
- demand in the project area
- demand outside the project area
c) Material structure
- Land
- Permits
- Office/studio
- Transmission equipment
- Equipment for production and storing of programmes
d) Logistics
- Transport
- Storage of materials
- Organisation of network
Forward :
Other typical productive structures.
List of drawings and
graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key
words.
List of
abbreviations used.
Documents
for funding applications.