{"id":1327,"date":"2011-07-16T13:19:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2011-07-16T13:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T18:19:34","slug":"etow-featured-on-pris-the-world-technology-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/etow-featured-on-pris-the-world-technology-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"ETOW featured on PRI’s The World Technology Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Shortwave radio charity, ETOW (Ears To Our World)<\/a> has been featured in this week’s PRI’s The World Technology Podcast. If you’ve never heard of ETOW, check out our previous posts<\/a> or simply visit ETOW’s website<\/a>. Self-powered shortwave radios<\/a> are an integral part of their mission to provide “appropriate” technologies to schools and children in the third world.<\/p>\n

Click here to go to PRI’s webpage for The World Technology Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Shortwave radio charity, ETOW (Ears To Our World) has been featured in this week’s PRI’s The World Technology Podcast. If you’ve never heard of ETOW, check out our previous posts or simply visit ETOW’s website. Self-powered shortwave radios are an integral part of their mission to provide “appropriate” technologies to schools and children in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[178,218,291,459],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-ears-to-our-world","tag-etow","tag-pri-world-technology-podcast","tag-radio-charity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-lp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1632,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/how-to-celebrate-national-radio-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":1327,"position":0},"title":"How to celebrate National Radio Day","author":"Thomas","date":"August 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"August 20th is National Radio Day, a day for celebrating the invention of radio and this amazing 110+ year old communications medium, still so vital to information access throughout our world. 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