upstream journal

The latest Upstream Journal is now available, with a special focus on the role of communication for social change.

36 pages of "Canadian perspectives on global justice."

Voices of dissent - Amy Goodman and independent media
The role of community radio as an alternative source of information

Grafitti as social protest
Street art challenges social and political structures when other options are limited

“Talking strongly” - Indigenous media in Australia
Protecting culture and language through media technology

Media poetics and cattle - Colombia community radio, language and power
Challenging cultural assumptions in cowboy country

Container tech - Jamaican community retrofits shipping container into creative computing centre
Technology is made local and becomes a tool of empowerment

Le grand saut technologique et la “nouvelle économie” - au secours des pays en développement?
La expansion technologique - est-elle adaptée à la situation fragile dans ces pays?

The World Bank doesn’t have - and doesn’t want - human rights standards in its projects
Despite changing opinion on their importance in development, the world’s largest development institution has no policy on human rights

The financial crisis and the future for Canada’s foreign aid
Will cuts join high food prices, falling remittances and low export earnings in reversing development gains?

To download the issue:
http://tinyurl.com/upstream-com-media


Subscription only $5!

For more information:

http://www.upstreamjournal.org/

http://www.s-j-c.net

some community media resources

best site for updated info on community media in europe - lots of links to different reports, www.communitymedia.eu


journal edition dedicated to community media, more theoretical pieces that may be of use.
http://www.javnost-thepublic.org/issue/2003/1/



one case study that is at hand, tho an internet search will turn up lost for the country or region of choice - just be sure it is up to date info as policies have been changing...article on community media in japan (or lack of)
http://www.researchsea.com/html/article.php/aid/1718/cid/5/research/the_role_of_community_radio_in_japan__.html?PHPSESSID=5a876739241d0ce5572f8da16753b19b

Community wifi links

1) report on philly project from new american foundation (itself a good resource for teleocm research mostly us based. See esp the outcomes listed on first page of the repotr that consider that lack of/not taking properly into account of public input as part of the problem and related lack of success)

http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/philadelphia_story

2) Champaign Urbana wireless

http://cuwireless.net/

3) international summit for community wireless networks

http://wirelesssummit.org/

4) http://www.hearusnow.org/internet/190/

5)fcc study

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:8UQYh7mN_gwJ:wireless.fcc.gov/outreach/2004broadbandforum/comments/NewAmericaUnlicensed.pdf+native+american+wireless+sandvig&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8

6) tribal digital village

http://www.sctdv.net/content.fsp?name=8649