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.”

Radio Absoun, Chad

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New Technology & the Prevention of Violence & Conflict

IPI, UNDP, USAID | April 16, 2013

The International Peace Institute (IPI) together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), hosted an interactive discussion, video presentation, and launch of a five-case study report on the role of new technologies in the prevention of violent conflict earlier this month.

Click here to view the event video on UStream>>