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New and traditional communication tools converge for social justice.(Community & Independent Media)

Publication: WE!
Publication Date: 01-DEC-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Around the world, the gap between those who have access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and those who do not continues to widen. Issues of access to computers and the internet, literacy, technical skills, availability of quality, and useful digital content all contribute...

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...to the growing digital divide.

In developing countries, traditional media like community radio is still the most effective communication tool. It is available in almost all countries, and reaches mass audiences cheaply and rapidly. Unlike newspapers, which limits its audience to those who can read, radio and television are said to communicate complicated messages through sound and picture, reaching out to both literate and non-literate audiences.

While traditional media like posters, folk theatre, models and charts, wall painting, billboards, publications, and other printed materials are the usual Information Education Communication (IEC) materials, development workers have seen the potential of supplementing these with Information and Communication Technology tools.

ICT tools such as computer systems...

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