Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
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and
"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,
“Poverty is created scarcity”
Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th
annual NGO Conference, United Nations,
The establishment of a local radio station is 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.
A member of the project coordination
team.
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).
66 persons indicated by the tank commissions interested in participating in the
management of the station.
297 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
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05.34 Installation and on-going maintenance
structures.