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Radio and Communication<br>
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Communication Technology for a Fairer World<br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size=4 color="#0000FF">Voices of Change:<br>
Strategic Radio Support for Achieving the <br>
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)<br>
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</font><font face="Tahoma">It is our great pleasure to inform you that
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is
going to translate in Bengali of the book <b>Voices of Change: Strategic
Radio Support for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals</b>
published by Information and Communication for Development (ICD) of
Department for International Development (DFID). We acknowledge the
congenial support from DFID Bangladesh.<br><br>
The objective of translation the book is to help target audiences to know
more on the prospect of the use of Radio as a tool of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) to achieve the goals of Poverty Reduction
Strategy Paper (PRSP). So, NGOs/Community Based Organizations (CBOs) can
prepare future project proposals by accommodating the use of Radio to
reach mass people including rural and disadvantage people. Moreover this
publication will help academicians, researchers, government officials,
media activities, policy makers including Parliamentarians to understand
the role of radio for the advancement of Bangladesh in various
development sectors.<br>
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The book provides the scope of radio’s involvement in underpinning
sustainable livelihoods, realizing rights, human development and the
broader goals and targets of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
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It clearly highlights the relevance of radio in poor communities, its
broad applicability to a range of sectoral activities such as health,
rights, education, livelihoods etc. It also identifies the need to deepen
the capacity of radio broadcasters at all levels to conduct effective
monitoring and evaluation, so as to begin the process of developing a
rigorous information and communication for development evidence base,
which highlights radio’s and other communications mediums strategic
contribution to the realization of the Millennium Development
Goals.<br>
It is accepted that the knowledge/information divide is the result rather
than the cause of poverty and that efforts to bridge it must be embedded
within effective strategies that address the causes of poverty. This
book<i> </i>details how Radio as on the component of ICTs are being used
today, challenges and opportunities presented by radio and it’s
potentiality to bridge knowledge divide. It also challenges DFID and
other donors to increase support to the radio sector.<br><br>
The translation is on the way to end. The book will be available at our
website <a href="http://www.bnnrc.net/">www.bnnrc.net</a>.<br>
If anybody likes to get the hard copy of the book, please do not feel any
hesitation to contact us through
<a href="mailto:pra@bnnrc.net">pra@bnnrc.net</a> <br><br>
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</font><font face="system" color="#0000FF">AHM Bazlur Rahman-S21BR<br>
Chief Executive Officer<br>
</font><font face="system" color="#008080">Bangladesh NGOs Network for
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Radio and Communication(BNNRC)<br>
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Member, Strategy Council<br>
UN-Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID)<br><br>
</font><font face="system" color="#800080">House: 13/1, Road:2, Shaymoli,
Dhaka-1207 <br>
Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh<br><br>
</font><font face="system" color="#0000FF">Phone: 88-02-9130750,
88-02-9138501<br>
01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105<br><br>
</font><font face="system" color="#008080">E-mail: ceo@bnnrc.net,
bnnrc@bd.drik.net<br>
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