This program looks at number of projects aiming to improve access to communication - be it the use of telephones in East Timor or Internet access in the remote interior of Australia. Guests David Rowe Electronic engineer and one of the founders of the Dili Village Telco Project. Dr Paul Gardner Stephen Co-founder of the...

This paper filters recent developments in digital radio policy and implementation through the perspectives of community radio stakeholders, obtained through interviews, to describe and analyse these constraints.

Broadband will soon reach small communities in remote Australia, but a few details need to be sorted out first.

The internet provides a means for non-professional media-makers to produce and publish their own video and audio content, as community television and radio have done for several decades. This paper draws on participant contributions at the symposium to explore the relationship between broadcast and online community media.

Forget media diversity in the fast broadband world. The new model for local media is top-down and centrally controlled.