| |  | newsroom  - A World of Possibilities: http://www.aworldofpossibilities.com/
Bill Siemering, President of Developing Radio Partners, discusses the future of global media and radio’s unique role in encouraging grassroots communication and local participation in global problem-solving in the August 16, 2005 show entitled, “Global Media & the Conversational Commons: Communication from Many to Many.” - To the Best of Our Knowledge: http://www.wpr.org/book/050410A.html
Bill Siemering tells Steve Paulson how communities in third world countries are using radio as a community development tool, and offers an alternative to American TV weather reporting. Bill Siemering was NPR's first Director of Programming and wrote its Mission Statement. We also hear excerpts from the Press Mongolia series, "My Life." - Humankind: http://www.humanmedia.org/program_78_siemering.php3
Bill Siemering, who wrote NPR's mission, discusses his recent activities of developing community radio services in third world nations as a way to give people a voice and to heal conflict. His knowledge gained from founding NPR has helped him give a voice to those without a voice and spread valuable information to the most rural and impoverished areas of the world. - Public Radio Exchange (PRX): http://prx.org/piece/1071
Developing Radio Partners is working with Atlantic Public Media to pilot a Sister Station Project between WCAI-WNAN and Gobi Wave, 103.6FM in the Mongolian town of Dalanganzad in the Gobi Desert. Listen here for more on “Massachusetts/ Mongolia Sister Stations.” |