Nelly Bassily | January 20, 2014
Farm Radio International’s ICT and Radio Manager Bart Sullivan attended the Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7), called “Open Learning for Development: Towards Empowerment and Transformation” in Abuja, Nigeria from December 2-6, 2013.
Mr. Sullivan’s objective at PCF7 was to demonstrate the ICT tools Farm Radio uses to engage radio audiences, including Beep 2 Vote, an SMS platform which allowed conference attendees to respond to questions throughout sessions.
For more information on the conference go to: http://pcf7.net/#
Farm Radio has developed e-courses for broadcasters over the last four years, providing online education on a range of subjects, including scriptwriting and how to design farmer programs. Farm Radio e-courses are offered in both French and English. For more information, visit FRI’s website: www.farmradio.org
Back in his base in Arusha, Tanzania, Mr. Sullivan has been joined by Thad Kerosky, from Boston, USA, and Loïc Nogues, from Annecy, France. They will be helping to develop voice and SMS technologies to improve interactivity between radio stations and their listeners, and redesigning the FRI and Barza websites. They will shortly be joined by Muniu Kariuki from Kenya, who will be assisting with the development of FRI’s Android applications. More information about these and other developments will follow soon: watch this space!