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Bangladesh NGOs Network for<br>
Radio and Communication<br>
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Communication Technology for a Fairer World<br><br>
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<font size=4><b>Mr. Ian Pringle has returned to Canada to work with <br>
the Commonwealth of Learning as Education Specialist, Media,<br>
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</b></font><font size=3><a name="top"></a>After eight years living and
working in Nepal and India and two in Paris, Mr. Ian
Pringle<a name="top"></a> has returned to Canada to work with the
Commonwealth of Learning as Education Specialist, Media, starting in
January 2008. He will manage and direct a portfolio of interventions
around the Commonwealth in the use of mass media for health, governance
and community development. <br>
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Ian has worked with community and public media for the past twenty years,
in Canada, where he was born and raised, and later in South Asia and
internationally. Ian studied English and communications at McGill
University in Montreal, where he also began his long association with
community radio. He lived in Vancouver from 1991 to 1997 working with a
variety of media, including radio, video and the emerging internet. Then,
as now, the focus on Ian's work has been on using local media as tools
for empowerment and community development. <br><br>
In 1998, Ian moved to Nepal to take up a post with the Centre for
International Studies and Cooperation as an advisor to Radio Sagarmatha,
South Asia's first independent radio broadcaster. In subsequent years, he
gradually devoted more and more time to new community media in rural
Nepal, in south India and other countries in the region. In 2002 Ian
joined UNESCO's Regional Bureau for Communication and Information in New
Delhi, managing programmes in community media and new information and
communication technologies (ICT). In 2006, he began an assignment at
UNESCO Headquarters in Paris to co-ordinate the organisation's community
multimedia initiatives, with a focus on scaling-up community media
centres in Africa. <br><br>
Ian is a skilled and experienced media specialist with broad
international experience and strong interests in innovation, social
change and policy environments. He has contributed to numerous
publications relating to media, new ICT and various aspects of
development. In 2007, Ian returned to academic study, beginning a Masters
degree in mass communication with the University of Leicester
(England).<br><br>
<a name="top"></a>We also want to express our warm gratitude to the Mr.
Ian Pringle<a name="top"></a> for assisting us in Community Radio
Advocacy in Bangladesh.<br>
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<b>Bazlu<br><br>
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</font><font face="System" size=3 color="#0000FF">AHM Bazlur
Rahman-S21BR<br>
Chief Executive Officer<br>
</font><font face="System" size=3 color="#008080">Bangladesh NGOs Network
for Radio and Communication<br>
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Member, Strategy Council<br>
UN-Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID)<br><br>
</font><font face="System" size=3 color="#800080">House: 13/1, Road:2,
Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 <br>
Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh<br><br>
</font><font face="System" size=3 color="#0000FF">Phone: 88-02-9130750,
88-02-9138501<br>
01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105<br><br>
</font><font face="System" size=3>E-mail: ceo@bnnrc.net,
bnnrc@bd.drik.net, <br>
<a href="http://www.bnnrc.net/" eudora="autourl">www.bnnrc.net<br>
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