Week One: Introduction to Interactive Radio Discussion

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#1

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the Barza Interactive Radio discussion. My name is Busi Ngcebetsha, I am your moderator for this discussion. I have a community radio background and I have been working with different radio stations and organisations, training them in producing radio programmes that speak to their target audiences. I believe radio is a great access to information tool as it reaches more people at any given time.

This discussion is about interactive radio. We will look at the different interactive radio approaches, what works, what doesn’t and explore and exchange best practices that will assist on improving your radio programming. This is a 4-week discussion and in each week we will have specific topics that we will be concentrating on.

In the first week, you will need to introduce yourself and take part in the icebreaker activity, I will explain this in detail shortly…
In week 2, you will share your understanding and experiences on interactive radio
In week 3, we will concentrate on gender and interactive radio.
In week 4, the final week, we will look at different interactive radio approaches and tools…

Your tasks for this week:

Introduction: Click on the “reply” button and introduce yourself. Your introduction should include where you are from, the name of your radio station, the program you produce/present, how your studio looks like. It would be great if you can also take a picture of the studio and upload here.

Icebreaker: Go to http://discussion.farmradio.fm/t/week-one-icebreaker and follow instructions.

Cheers
Busi

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Week One: Icebreaker
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Week One: Icebreaker
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#2
#3

Hello All!

Good Morning from Kabale, South Western Uganda

My name is Mugwisagye Brenda, i produce and present the Agribusiness programs on Voice of Kigezi,Fm.

will be joining the discussion starting today, happy to meet you all.

#4

Welcome aboard to this enriching discussion.Am Felix Ogwang from Radio Unity Lira Northern Uganda and a present a business show that runs from 11:30-12:00pm,Mondays to Friday.

#5

Hello @Mugwisagye @Felio

Welcome to the Interactive Radio discussion. We are glad to have you here. Today is actually the first day of the discussion. Please note that I have moved your posts to where you are supposed to be. Read through the introduction instructions and complete the task. We would like to hear more than what you have shared.

Enjoy!

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#6

Hello everyone, my name is Gideon Kwame Sarkodie Osei and I work with ADARS FM in Kintampo, Ghana. I am the producer and host of our farmer program. I am also a 2016 GAC Award winner, FRI Trainer and finally two times FRI e-course Gold winner. It’s awesome to be here again especially in discussing interactive radio which is the anchor of the FRI strategy. I look on to a very educative and game - changing discussion. Cheers!

#7

Hello Gideon @Sarkodie_Gideon

Good to meet you here! We are looking forward to hearing more about your radio program as we go along. Please follow the instructions on introduction and participate in the icebreaker activity.

Cheers

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#8

Hi everyone,

My name is Blythe McKay, I live in Ottawa, Canada and I work for Farm Radio International. I’ve been with Farm Radio for the past 12 years and I oversee all the different resources such as scripts, Barza Wire, broadcaster how-to docs, e-discussions and online training that we offer to radio broadcasters.

I hope you all find the present e-discussion on interactive radio stimulating and useful. I’m really looking forward to reading your experiences and sharing some of my own. We are in good hands with Busi as moderator.

I work in an office with 15 other colleagues from Farm Radio International and we share space with a larger Canadian organization called WUSC.

I’ve included a photo of me standing in my office cubicle. I spend a lot of time in front of my computer writing emails, and talking with colleagues and partners in different countries in Africa on skype.

Cheers,
Blythe

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#9

Hi everyone,
My name is Christian Chibuzo Maduka. I live in Enugu South East Nigeria. I work presently as Communications and Social Marketing Expert for 3rd National Urban Water Sector Reform and Port Harcourt Water Supply and Sanitation Project co-funded by World Bank, African Development bank and Rivers State Government of Nigeria. I have worked as Broadcast-Journalist for 25 years.

My last assignment in the core media was working as Zonal DAAR Communications Plc. Enugu operators of Africa Independent TV and Raypower Radio. I have also worked as Producer Presenter, MINAJ Systems Radio and Television Obosi where I rose to the position of Head of Station before I left the Organization. I also worked as Chief of programmes for Confluence Cable Network, Lokoja Nigeria operators of grace 95.5FM and Confluence Television CTV Channel 45. I was Media Trainer for BBC Media Action Nigeria in Abuja Nigeria where I trained staff of partner stations in over 12 States of Nigeria. At BBC Media Action, I worked among a team that executed the Enhancing Nigeria’s Response to HIV and AIDS ENR Projects, USAID funded Project MESSAGE [Media Support for Strengthening Advocacy, Good Governance and Empowerment] and UNICEF funded Project IC among others. I worked actively with the media content Production Departments of BBC World Media Action, Nigeria and many others in the whole process of concieving, planning and production of some of the media outputs like ”STORY STORY”,etc.

I stepped out of creating, producing, presenting contents for traditional and new media Communications into the world of development communications. I worked as Communications and Outreach Specialist for USAID-Sustainable Water and Sanitation for Africa Project in Ebonyi, Bauchi and Rivers Projects, Senior Communication Officer Prisoner Rehabilitation and Welfare Action PRAWA, Media Consultant for Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative NEITI under World Bank funded project, Media Consultant [Community Radio] for the United Nation Development Programme UNDP and Communication Expert for United States Agency for International Development USAID Infant and Young Children Nutrition IYCN Project. I have numbers of media outputs of various genre to my credit. I have good grasp of national and international global media environment. I have skills in capacity building, media development, planning, content creation,media skills training, citizen and stakeholder engagement, advocacy, monitoring and evaluation.

In my new assignment, I work among various Experts to develop communicationsand social mrketing strategy for communication project briefs to stakeholders as well engaging all stakeholders to buy into the projects and support.

I have included a photo me standing in front of a participants at a Business and Strategy Planning Workshop as Facilitator.

#10

@krizo Hello and welcome Chris

We are happy to have you here!. Thank you for sharing about your work experiences and for the picture. Now we have an idea of your working environment. With such experience I am hopeful you will get to share a lot of experiences. That is how we learn, through shared experiences.

Enjoy the discussions!

#11

My name is Pauline Kalumikiza Mbukwa,am working at Farm Radio Trust, the baby to Farm Radio International but now no longer a baby but a strategic partner. I am working as a Radio Programming Specialist for Feed the Future Agricultural Diversification Project. I have been working with Farm Radio Trust for over 5 years now. My job entails designing radio programs ,providing technical guidance to broadcasters,training,research, linking farmers with knowledge experts and broadcasters,evaluating radio programs.I have also shared with my other side of office-field work that I also enjoy doing.

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#12

Hello Pauline

Welcome! We are delighted to have you here. We hope to hear more about the radio programs you design. Sharing plays a big role in learning. One thing missing in your introduction though is a picture of you in your working space.

We are looking forward to that!

Cheers

#13

My name is Rachel Adipo from Western part of Kenya. I work for a non-government organization (NGO), called Ugunja Community Resource Centre that is based in the Western region of Kenya. I am a field extension officer who train farmers on good agricultural practices from land preparation to post-harvest handling of different climate resilient crops.

#14

Hi Raychelle

You are welcome! We are glad to have you here and looking forward to learning more from your experiences.

It would be great if we can see a photo of you in your work space. @Blythe @krizo @Pauline have already done this. It would be nice to see everyone’s pictures in their working spaces as it is also an instruction in the introduction task.

Cheers

#15

Hello everyone,

We are in day 3 of our week one activities. In case you have not logged in for a while, this week we are busy with introductions and icebreaker. Make sure you make time to introduce yourself and take part in the icebreaker activity.

Enjoy your day!

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#16

Hallo guys.
My name is Kevin Charles.
I’m currently in Mbulu town, Manyara Province, Northern part of Tanzania.
I’m a radio presenter/programme producer at Radio Habari Njema 87.5 fm, a regional radio under the Catholic Church.
I’m hope to learn more, share more and make friends.
It’s my first time in a discussion like this, but since I’m well versed with matters concerning Agriculture, I hope I’m right where I belong.
Thank you.

#17

Hello Kevin

You are welcome! Yes you are at the right place for learning and sharing.

One thing missing though in your introduction, a picture of your studio or you in your studio.

Remember to also visit the icebreaker topic and participate.

Cheers

#18

Hi every one
My name is Ruth Ninsiima. I am an agriculture extension officer currently working with Healthy Child Uganda - Mbarara University of Science and Technology under Meals for Nutrition project. i have great interest in community componet and my passion is contributing towards improving livehoods of rural communities.I hope this discussion will answer some of my questions.Glad to be part of this platform

#19

Hello Ruth

Welcome to Barza discussion about interactive radio. I believe you will learn something or two here and we will learn from you too. Now, where is that picture of yours at work?

Looking forward to hearing more from you.

Please join the icebreaker activity and participate.

Cheers

#20

Hello Everyone

My name is Phillip Chinkhokwe, working with Farm Radio Trust in Malawi as ICT4Dev Officer. I love radio and working with farmers. Am very excited to be here, meet old and new friends, discuss and share experiences on Interactive Radio