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 11: 02 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
The
establishment of a local radio station is an integral part of the project. The
station is a part of the management of communications cncerning 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.
The station
will usually 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
coprise 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 mcro-credits conceded
(b)
Transmissions by interest groups
- Initiatives the groups wish to take
- Information on itiatives 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.
How can the station reimburse this interest-free credit?
- 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. How:
-a) Collection of a small (formal currency) contribution at household level?
-b) Payments for services rendered to people living in the areas surrounding
the project area
- c) Advertising by producers in the project area towards people living in the
surrounding areas Usually just one Moraisian workshop will be held in a given
project area.
Indicative
participation
The Moraisian
trainers
The project coordinator
Consultant Terry Manning
At least one representative of the ONG
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:
Drinking water structures.
List of drawings and
graphs.
Typical list of maps.
List of key
words.
List of abbreviations
used.
Documents
for funding applications.