Message-ID: <199511090520.GAA13026@utrecht.knoware.nl> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 06:19:01 +0100 From: Maarten van der Heijden <mailto:mheijden@KNOWARE.NL> Subject: Re: Wind Up Radio...ideal for 3rd World? To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Adrian C Phillips wrote>--
>Now that technology is providing us with the universal access to the
>airwaves, the primary issue becomes one of programming. What is the
>sense of allowing rural and impoverished people access to to airwaves if
>the predominant programming addresses urban and capitalist issues.
>
>What next, the wind-up tv to allow the Masai to look at American soap operas?
This shows too much disdain for the impoverished. Thay may not be rich, but they surely are not stupid. The ANC of South africa had its own radio in times when Nelson Mandelea was still in prison. Maybe this is the reason why the radio is being built in South Africa, from the design af an Englishman who shopped aroud for two years with his product.
Any radiostation will transmit a form of propaganda, as did the government radio company in South Africa and the ANC radio station. The possibility to choose is the core of independence.
Maarten van der Heijden