Follow-up - Impact and Sustainability of Community Radio in Bangladesh
Follow-up Impact and Sustainability of Community Radio in Bangladesh Faizul Khan Tanim does a follow-up on this exciting social media tool to find out how it is working A Radio Revolution has started in this country and community radio (CR) is the newest tool in the block to have emerged. Experts believe that, with its immense potential, it should not only be rural centric and should not be labelled as an ‘agriculture’ or ‘development’ tool only. Rather, it should be introduced in the capital city to see bigger pictures. And thanks to the advent of technology, CR is part of ‘alternative media’ and beyond. This is primarily because of the vast potential CR has – podcasting, amalgamating the usages of CR and social networking, transmission through mobile phone sets supporting radios which increases accessibility and the idea of sharing knowledge based resources - these will not be dreams anymore. To get a more in-depth idea on CR sustainability, t...