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RBO's
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RBO tries to combine the actual production and distribution of its scheme "GLOBAL VILLAGE VOICES" with a sustainable intercultural exchange, realised through the establishment of an internship-program that will allow young journalists from the South and the North to work together on radio-features from the developing world and to distribute such co-productions to a worldwide audience. It is suggested that a professional discourse about issues and formats would expose Northern participants to the challenge of foreign values with the need to help express such authentic views in a way that would find attention of listeners in another cultural environment.
RBO-internship
1996:
Mathias
Wevelsiep, Nick Perkins (RBO-Trainer), Jörg Kruse
Such an experience will help to influence professional attitudes of participants :
from the South who would have learned to
use formats for their issues which enhance the creativity
and technical realisation necessary - not only for
international marketing and mobilisation of interest of
audiences beyond their own cultural environment - but
will also facilitate the development of media in their
own countries.
from the North who will be more sensitized
to authentic expressions from the South. They will be
more prepared to allow space for other values than their
own; the usual filter of Northern biases regarding
Southern issues will be applied less often in a situation
where they may become responsible for programming.
Such an internship program
underwent already a trial period from April '96 to April
'97, with four groups of participants from Germany,
twinned with colleagues from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana
and Mozambique and accomodated at a rented RBO venue in
Harare. Their co-produced radio programs were - in
several language versions - on air in Germany, Zimbabwe,
Botswana, Namibia and Zambia.
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It is anticipated that such an
intercultural exchange will become an important feature
of "GLOBAL VILLAGE VOICES", sponsored through
fellowship programs by media related foundations and
organisations worldwide. Such an institution would
provide, at the same time, a reliable access to a
selected range of languages and their presenters needed
for the overvoicing of audio programs. In the long term,
it would help to build up support units by participants
returned to their home countries.
Check out the experiences of two
German interns
More about the RBO-concept of training with production
