26-09-2001 UNESCO opened the first intensive training workshop for future managers of community multimedia centres (CMCs) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, this week. CMCs combine local radio and community telecentre facilities to offer digital opportunities to poor and marginalised communities. The two-week "training of trainers" workshop brings together community radio directors from Burkina, Mali and Benin. Their radio stations are candidates for transformation into CMCs under UNESCO's programme for CMC development in Africa financed under Swiss Funds-in-Trust. Continuer

14-09-2001 The four radio stations of Timbuktu, Mali, received a suitcase radio Friday, offered by UNESCO to encourage the production of programmes using the information resources of Internet. The suitcase radio comprises a complete broadcasting unit and can also be used as a production studio. It is to be housed in the community telecentre of Timbuktu, a UNESCO-supported project, in order to enable radio staff to produce "radio browsing" programmes. Continuer