{"id":31684,"date":"2018-04-18T05:56:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T09:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31684"},"modified":"2018-04-18T05:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T09:56:55","slug":"rootio-and-a-new-community-radio-initiative-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/rootio-and-a-new-community-radio-initiative-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"RootIO and a new community radio initiative in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n(Source: Global Voices<\/a> via Mike Hansgen)<\/p>\n

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How RootIO Broadcasts Radio in Uganda Using a Bucket<\/h2>\n

The open-source toolkit allows users to broadcast using just a smartphone and a transmitter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Radio is still and continues to be a powerful medium across most of the African continent. Not only is radio used to share community information but it is cheap and very accessible. In Uganda, a mixing of radio\u2019s power with new mobile and internet technologies has created a cheap and powerful open-source toolkit that allows communities to create their own micro-radio stations. All one needs is an inexpensive smartphone and a transmitter and a community that will share, promote and collaborate on dynamic content.<\/p>\n

[…]They have no studio and all the radio shows are done using the host\u2019s smartphone.<\/p>\n

How does this work? Users can purchase most of the materials at local markets. A small transmitter is built into a waterproof bucket with a fan, a charge-controller and a smartphone, which is connected to an antenna and a solar panel.<\/p>\n

The radio stations are really small and can serve a village or a couple of villages reaching to 10,000 listeners. The content produced by the radio hosts lives in the cloud so stations are able to share content with other stations.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article at Global Voices.<\/a><\/p>\n

Note that we first published a post about RootIO five years ago<\/a>. Very happy to see it’s now in use!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Global Voices via Mike Hansgen) How RootIO Broadcasts Radio in Uganda Using a Bucket The open-source toolkit allows users to broadcast using just a smartphone and a transmitter Radio is still and continues to be a powerful medium across most of the African continent. 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