Assessment/Design for an Independent Radio Station in Sudan

Themes:

Democratization, assessment, information communication technology

Project Goal:

To assess the environment for the creation of a radio station for Southern Sudan. To date radio in Southern Sudan has consisted of broadcasts from the north and some sporadic coverage from the BBC. There is no local radio available to this predominately illiterate population. The proposed radio station would provide programs that emphasize diverse cultural representation, gender equity, and the use of local languages such as Nuer and Dinka in addition to English and Arabic. The station would broadcast news, information about the peace process, music and development-related topics such as agriculture, health and basic education.

List of Partners:

• Education Development Center
• OTI

EDC staff and dot-EDU partners will make recommendations on the following activities:

• Ability to establish an independent radio station with credible, ethnically, politically and geographically representative management structures and staff
• Establishment of continuous, consistent broadcast coverage
• Radio station incorporation in Kenya with eventual transfer to Sudan
• Partnership building with existing news agencies in Southern Sudan
• Technical feasibility for program production and transmission
• Sudanese access to radios

For more information, please contact:

• EDC Mike Laflin, VP and Center Director, mlaflin@edc.org, Tel: (202)572-3755
• EDC William Wright, dot-EDU Director, wwright@edc.org, Tel: (202)572-3753
  

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