RADIO CONNECT RADIO TAMHAS
The Afghan Radio Connect project started in January 2007. Nai, an organisation supporting open media in Aghanistan and Internews have joined hands to develop this unique concept. The Afghan Radio Connect website is a platform to access the 33 Afghan local radio stations’ websites and the details of their location and the latest local news from these stations is published. There is a provision to subscribe to the RSS feed, as well as get updates on the project by subscribing to the newsletter. The project is sustained by the personal announcement service and donations. Information dissemination for empowerment is the sole purpose behind this unique idea. This means a place like Daikondi which is 3 hrs away from the capital Kabul can keep the world updated instantly through its community radio station linked to the World Wide Web.
What we deliver
The Afghan diasporas can have the local news about their community very easily through the website not only Afghans which are leaving outside the country the Afghans who leaves in another of the country but not in their villages, district, province can have the information about their community through the website. And people can send their message to their community through this web.
How is the project unique?
The Radio Tamhas project has a simple yet unique concept of keeping Aghanistan and the Afghans all over the world informed of each other through its linkages on the Internet. Given the extreme weather vagaries and geographical barriers unique to Afghanistan, the Radio Connect concept is one of the better examples of how the local conditions, both geographical and political in this case, have given a solution that is ‘Glocal’ (thinking globally acting locally) in its truest sense by taking local content to the global stage and vice-versa.
Roadmap
Even its only 7 years that we started to use the ICT tools in Afghanistan but we have released that It has been very useful for development either in media site, communication…for instance in media sector now with using ICT tools we easily can listen to the radio through mobile phone, website and have access to the information
Contact
Nai Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan
Mir Abdul Wahed Hashimi
Darulaman Mean Road, House #105
Kabul, Afghanistan
222222
URL/Website –www.nai.org.af
