report from Peshawar

This coming Monday, the 10th of June, my first program made in Peshawar
will be broadcast on Dutch Radio. In Peshawar, or Germany or anywhere
you can listen to the "live stream". You must have acces to a computer,
with internet acces, and a soundcard. You can even record it and save
it. Plug the minidisk with a cable into the line-out of the soundcard,
and record while it's being broadcast.

This will happen between 10 and 11 a.m. in the Netherlands. It's a 22
minutes feature.
But in Pakistan and Afghanistan it's 4 hours later. That would be then
between 2 and 3 p.m. :)

And this is how you can listen:

in your browser you go to http://portal.omroep.nl/    >
On the right, almost at the top are grey pictures. Click on the radio >
Then you go to Radio 1 >
Click on the little speaker , or the word "geluid" in the little box.
Then your audio player should start up....
(if not, you can download it, or copy it. That takes a day, probably. So
better check it before.)

I will be interested to hear from your experience.

It is made for listeners in the Netherlands, so for Dutch speakers.
 However, I managed to include quite some English, and some Dari and Pashto poetry. And a lot of donkeys and scooters and bazar and good music.

*        *            *        *          *        *        *
                  W         I          T        H
 *        *              *        *        *        *

Qader Shafiq, Dr. Homayra Neghhat Dastirgazada, Shakila
Azzizada, Hariwa, Partaw Naderi, Dr. Salma Shaheen.
Leilama Hamraz, Afrasiab Khattak, Fatana Gailani en Ostad Mahwash.
My guides Shafiq Mohammad en Javed Marwat.
            and all the boys from Charssada!

I hope you like it. At least for me it was great to be with you, work with you
getting to know you, is for me getting to know Afghanistan, Pakistan, Islam and myself. 

                      Jo

       Between Home Sickness 
   and the Home Front
 

Mini-conference about New Media and Diaspora
with special guest: internet journalist Adam Hanieh from Ramallah

Internet enables cheap and fast communication across vast distances. It is
no coincidence the migrants and refugees make extensive use of new media to
keep in touch with their home land. In times of crisis these contacts are
even more crucial and they intensify. Web sites become message boards and
sources of up-to-date information, platforms to establish contacts and
develop new initiatives, to spread calls for action, for intervention and
projects, and to distribute self-made radio programs and videos.

Access to the required high-end technology often remains largely out of
reach for the population in the home land, which is why combinations with
older media are investigated: telephone, fax, print and radio. Thus local
post offices, call centres and call booths, and radio stations can emerge
that build a bridge between the international new media infrastructures and
the local population.

Within The Netherlands a number of different projects are currently
developed where internet and radio are used to establish contacts between
the Diaspora and the home land. How does it work and what is possible? What
contribution can these projects make to reconciliation and to the (re-)
construction of the home land? How can a sense of a shared destiny be
reinforced?

With Bruce Girard , author of "A passion for radio" and "Mixed Media"
(http://www.comunica.org/) about the practical applications of old and new
media by migrants and exiles.

In this mini-conference we will present projects that are aimed at:

Afghanistan: Radio Rietfluit presented by Jo van der Spek
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jo

The Moluccas: SOS Maluku presented by Arjen Tupan
http://www.sos-maluku.org

Our special guest from the Palestinian territories is Adam Hanieh from
Ramallah. In Ramallah he was one of pioneers of internet radio and web
campaigning. He will report on the use of tactical media during the time
when his city was besieged.

Adam Hanieh is the research co-ordinator for Defence for Children
International / Palestine Section.
http://www.dci-pal.org

The conference is chaired by Naima Challioui

Languages: English and Dutch

Organised in co-operation with Radio Rietfluit en NVJ-project office
Migrants and Media

Internet live stream via:  http://www.balie.nl/live

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Tickets and reservation:

Admission: E 7,50  (with reduction: E 5,00)
Reservations: during working days from 13.00-18.00 hrs or till the start of
the program.
In the weekend 1,5 hrs before programs start.
Reservation number: +31 (0)20 -  55 35 100 during opening hours till 45
minutes before the start of the program.

De Balie
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10
Amsterdam

http://www.balie.nl