I can’t see, so when my radio was destroyed in the cyclone, I felt very isolated. Now that I have a radio, I feel like I can see!
A blind Monk in Burma who received a radio after cyclone Nargis
Poor information flow is undoubtedly the biggest source of dissatisfaction, anger and frustration among affected people
TEC Thematic Evaluation
If we understand what is going on, we can be patient
A man talking to the CDA Learning Project in Aceh
I would say that registration [of those in camps] would have been almost impossible without the support of the communications teams
CCCM Cluster Coordinator Haiti
“A community without a radio is worth nothing,”....“People have already realized here that without radio the region is dead"
Internews Humanitarian Information Service in Eastern Chad
Rahma Mohamed Ibed
“What they desperately needed was access to local information in a language they understood – could they go home? Where were the local services and who were all these foreigners who said they were coming to help?”
Mark Frohardt, at the time Internews’ Vice President for Africa
“We were trying to be a community safety valve – to sit the two groups down together and find out how they felt about the problems. If we couldn’t get them into the studio we would send the reporters out to the camps.”
Smart Communications, a mobile network operator in the Philippines, has won an award for the ‘Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations’ at the Global Mobile Awards 2014, at this year’s Mobile World Congress run by the GSMA.
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In the digital age, radio is still the means of communication which reaches the most people worldwide. When communications networks are destroyed by disaster, radio becomes an essential way of reaching communities with life-saving information and acts as an...
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Blog by June Paulette Eclipse, Radyo Bakdaw Researcher
After Typhoon Yolanda ravaged my hometown of Guiuan, the people there were left in a total news blackout because we didn’t have any means of...
