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Radio Rasant

Project Location
Country: 
Germany
City: 
Sundern/ Northrine-Westfalia
Organization
Organization Name: 
Staedtische Realschule Sundern
Organization Type: 
School
Website
www.radiosant.org
Project Type
Education from 16 to 18 years
Project Description
Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 
Students from around the world are preparing one hour radio transmissions relayed around the world using United Nations transmitter facilities
Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 
The project was born in august 2000 after an "Enrichment day" where students reported about their school at a local fm station. Five young ladies ( 2 Ramonas, 2 Sarahs and one Tina - rasant) who joined this reporting team decided to launch a students' radio project to go on what they had started 4 months before. Searchinf for a radio station name they combined the firs letters of their surnames. Fron April 2002 we started with our international transmissions after we had some trouble with our local transmitter according to the topics we had presented. From that term they reported about topics fronm abroad. This usually cause that the young reporters would travelarount to meet people over there or to get an imagination of what was happening abroad. This couldn't be financed. Therefore we started to search for foreign services: students' groups from abroad who have been reporting from their area ( country, city, school, etc.). Meanwhile there are about 15 foreign services around the world. These are preparing one common topic mainly due to the UN Millenium Goals or other global topics. The foreign services send their contributions to Germany where the students combine all files and gather them into one radio programme. This final programme will be relayed parallel on different media services: by German local fm transmitters, by UN Mediumwave and Shortwave transmitters, by UN internet services and by the internet service of the Austrian Ministry of Education.
How long has your project been running?
08/2000
Objectives and Innovative Aspects
What are the specific objectives of the project and what are the instruments used to achieve them?: 
This project offers a lot of different opportunities to the students: 1) it implements a lot of different media to be used to create a common programme. The young reporters use specific computers and soud software to gather the material. They use skype accounts to get into contact with their fellows abroad to discuss the structure and contence of the final programme. So they do not use internet and computers for research and communication only but to create a final result. 2) They have to use english as a common language to be used for communication among the students group. But they are open to every kind of language they get. There are no restrictions to the foreign services. But it is a challenge to find somebody who will help the German to understand what is reported in the foreign contributions. 3) They get a lot of-self confidence when they are doing their "job". To collect interviews on the street, to be interviewed by somebody else and to be responsible with the information they get from abroad 4) in our city there are living people from more than 60 different nations. The students get open minded to foreigners and accept their cultural heritage and language.
Results
Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
We have got a lot of honors and prices concerning our programme. You can find some hints on our website www.radiosant.org. Concerning environmental sustainability we got some honor from the European National Geographic Magazine in malmo (Sweden), from our local German power supplier RWE (winner of the Environmental Protection Award 2010, vice winner of the environmental protection award 2009) and from the German Unesco in collaboration with with the German store company "dm". ( Be a Futurist; project name; ideas; future; initiatives)
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 
We don't have a specific number of collaboraters each month. It depends on the topic and the phase of the project. During some month there is no collaborationwith students abroad, sometimes more than 100.
Sustainability
What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
More than 6 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
Less than 10.000 Euro
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
No
Since when?: 
05/2012
Transferability
Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
No
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 
The project implements modern web 2.0 services.it is not isalated as a single project at school but implemented into regular lesson sometimes. The results of the project will be carried back into regular lesson again ( excellent interaction between regular lesson and project work)
Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

BUNYALA RURAL COMMUNITIES ICT AND CULTURAL DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER (BRCICTCDMC)

Project Location
Country: 
Kenya
City: 
PORT VICTORIA TOWN
Organization
Organization Name: 
TUMAINI EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT PROJECT (TEEP)
Organization Type: 
Other
Specify: 
NON PROFIT COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION (CBO)
Website
http://www.facebook.com/tumainicbo
Project Type
Helping youth step in the job market
Project Description
Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 
To provide opportunity for young people to acquire ICT literacy and necessary technical skills for job opportunity.
Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 
The project puts emphasis on using information and communication technologies in the context of global youth priorities, such as access to education, employment and poverty eradication. In addition, the cost of ICT access (mobile phones and Internet) is much higher as a proportion of per capita income in these particularly disadvantaged countries. We want s to bringing together all relevant stakeholders, including governments, civil society and the private sector, and encouraging them to work together to provide an environment that fosters the development of young people and enables them to realize their potential in the Information Society. The ICT centre will act as a resource centre for community mobilization, training and empowering young people to engage in community economic development by venturing them into employment. Disadvantaged and marginalized youth, such as migrant and refugee youth, youth with HIV and AIDS, indigenous youth, youth with disabilities, rural youth, youth experiencing poverty, and those facing discrimination, are often excluded from access to ICTs. The effective allocation of resources so as to ensure equal opportunities and access to ICTs for youth living in vulnerable situations is critical to ensuring that ICTs are used and developed in an inclusive and equitable manner.
How long has your project been running?
09/2010
Objectives and Innovative Aspects
What are the specific objectives of the project and what are the instruments used to achieve them?: 
We must address unequal opportunities for ICT use within groups. Important factors in this respect include an individual’s socio-economic position, level of education and place of residence. We want youth participation in democracy and the possibilities that may develop after the digital revolution. Opportunities for children and youth to express their ideas and opinions about different issues in society have traditionally been very limited. We want to participate strengthen policies for the provision of information and communication technologies (ICTs), including access to internet, for education, and including the promotion of ICT training for education that is relevant and of high quality. The project seeks to serve Youth through a number of products and services: Participatory Project Design; youth Led Innovative Program Implementation; seed Grant Projects for Entrepreneurship Development; developing multi-stakeholder partnerships for program design; building local capacity for program implementation; using new technologies for livelihood generation; community Driven Development; initiating Pilot projects; livelihoods based approaches to enterprise development in: Renewable Energy, HIV/AIDS, IT, Rural Development, Water and Sanitation and community volunteer-ship.
Results
Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
In a broad sense, the benefits arise from improvements in education and access to information. At the individual level, ICT has assisted some young people to gain more meaningful jobs, to communicate easily with other youth from all over the world, and thus share their experiences. Some youth are capable of using ICT in diverse and novel ways, as a result of which traditional forms of socialization such as the family and school are increasingly being challenged and overtaken. These technologies offer a culture of information, pleasure and relative autonomy, all of which are particularly appealing to young people. Many young people are simultaneously experiencing life within the global and local spheres. They develop a global consciousness yet still have to function and survive in their own locality and culture. The project evaluation criteria includes study on: the importance of the role of youth entrepreneurship in creating employment opportunities from ICT; the value of public-private partnerships in making the most of the employment potential of ICT for young people; how ICT opportunities can also assist vulnerable groups of young people; ways that ICT can help link the informal sector to opportunities in the world economy.
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 
• Every computer 20 Users Per day • 20x120 = 2400 users • 50 x1 computers for professional training • 2450 Users per day • 2450x30= 733,500 per month • 2450 Users x 365 days • Total, 894,250 Users per year • 50 computers x 3 centres • 50 computers x 3 (mobile ICT Unit, Schools) • 300 computers for public usage • 100 computers for professional training • Total, 400 computers. • 500 e-books (for e-library)
Sustainability
What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
More than 6 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
More than 500.000 Euro
Specify: 
Fundraising, donations, grants, products and services sale, endowements like Micro entrepreneurship - business opportunities for the youth
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
No
Since when?: 
09/2010
When is it expected to become self-sufficient?: 
01/2017
Transferability
Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
Yes
Where? By whom?: 
In other communities by national ICT access programme.
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 
Youth and ICT play an important role to uplift the living standard of youth themselves and the community they live in. Furthermore, ICT can increase the interest to learn new things, easy mean for job searching and application, easy money transfer and payments for school fees, easy communication and mass media entertainment; ICT helps in the cognitive development aspect of children, students, and all; ICT helps everyone to develop and shape their thinking power; logic sense; ICT increases the self confidence of a person, opening up to diversity and inclusion, helps in skill development. On creating job opportunities: youth use skills to open micro-entrepreneurship like mobile phone money transfer, setting up a community disaster management training- warning - and mobilization center as a mean for social development and resource support. ICT projects are vital to improving rural community livelihoods by: informing and forming on relevant decisions about livelihood strategies, thereby reducing disaster impact (flood, disease, drought warning and mitigation), and increasing income diversification; improvements in efficiency and effectiveness of rural service delivery across areas of health, education, agricultural extension, training and knowledge resources.
Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes
Background Information
Barriers and Solutions (max. 1000 characters): 
<div>Despite the many benefits, Technology in general and ICTs in particular, the project offers to the &nbsp;youth and other &nbsp;citizens, modern ICTs pose several obstacles including the implied costs, keeping up-to-date with ever changing technology and abuse. In our solutions we seek to improve community awareness and participation in the project. Next steps: 1. More feasibility studies 2. Educating Juniors and the community about the project 3. Recruiting more Juniors and training them 4. Secure endorsement of concept by investors, donors and sponsors 5. Pre-development phase fund-raising, donors, investors 6. ICT professional, artists, architecture; engineering team and selection 7. Partnership development with the donors and advisory and ICT constructing companies like CISCO and SAFARICOM to help in project definition, planning and technical support. 8. Development of a strong fund-raising committee and concept refinement.</div>