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Community Radio: The New Tree of Speech
by Steve Buckley

In this paper the author argues that radio has emerged, among all information and communication technologies, as the media best placed to bridge the digital divide, and meet the information needs of education and social development in Africa. He argues that there are many constraints that hinder access to information through various media such as telephones, television and internet and contribute to the "digital divide," including costs for building infrastructure, cost of consumption and purchase by the individual consumer, and the form of content. He states that the one electronic medium that can truly minimise the constraints on access to information which are today characterised by the digital divide is radio.

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http://www.comminit.com/africa/strategicthinking/st2005/thinking-944.html