5159 The Communication Initiative, The Drum Beat – Issue 551 – Communication and Change News and Issues, July 19 2010

The Drum Beat – Issue 551 – Communication and Change News and Issues
July 19 2010

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This issue includes:

* CONNECT ONLINE: The Vienna AIDS Conference events and themes.
* POLIO COMMUNICATION papers and poll.
* Reports and documents indicating communication TRENDS.
* CALL for PAPERS: Conference on C4D/social change.
* C4D EXPERIENCES from around the world.

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VIENNA WORLD AIDS CONFERENCE: COMMUNICATE AND CONNECT

Please join in learning about and discussing The Vienna World AIDS Conference (July 18-23 2010), an event summarised on The CI website – http://www.comminit.com/en/node/310758/347 – whether you will be in Vienna or not!

The CI’s Development Network Group called «HIV/AIDS Strategy: Future Directions» – http://groups.comminit.com/node/306528 – is a hub for our communication and media focused networking pertaining to the conference. This group currently has 538 members.

If you are not already one of them, please join the conversation! You can register here – http://groups.comminit.com/user/register – or, if already registered, join the group by going here – http://groups.comminit.com/node/306528 – and clicking on the red words «Request membership».

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POLIO COMMUNICATION PAPERS

Health Communication: Polio Lessons

As part of its polio programme funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), The CI recently coordinated the publication of a supplement in the Journal of Health Communication (JOHC) which focuses on health communication lessons from the polio experience. The papers published in the journal are currently (for the next two months) available free-of-charge.

The papers include:

* A Drop of Tension – http://www.comminit.com/en/node/316569/292

* Communication for Polio Eradication: Improving the Quality of Communication Programming Through Real-Time Monitoring and Evaluation – http://www.comminit.com/en/node/316573/292

* The Complexity of Social Mobilization in Health Communication: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Experiences in Polio Eradication –http://www.comminit.com/en/node/316576/292

* Using Data to Guide Action in Polio Health Communications: Experience from the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) –http://www.comminit.com/en/node/316577/292

* Polio Eradication Is Just Over the Horizon: The Challenges of Global Resource Mobilization – http://www.comminit.com/en/node/316581/292

* Health Communication: Polio Lessons – http://www.comminit.com/en/node/316570/292

POLIO POLL

http://www.comminit.com/en/polio.html

Do you feel the polio experience has a lot to teach us about health communication?

VOTE and COMMENT – http://www.comminit.com/en/node/316589/292

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TRENDS
http://www.comminit.com/en/trends.html

1.      Science Journalism ‘Flourishing’ in Developing World
by Aisling Irwin
…communicates a consensus to emerge from the February 2009 American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting: science journalism is thriving in parts of the developing world, while coming under severe pressure in some developed countries…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/286860/2754

2.      Rural Internet – Not Online but Still Connected
by Katherine Nightingale
…the use of ‘asynchronous’ internet is being developed to give internet access to remote villages, according to this February 2009 article…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/286833/307

3.      The Fortune 500 and Social Media: A Longitudinal Study of Blogging and Twitter Usage by America’s Largest Companies
by Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson
…describes a 2009 study by the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States, examining the Fortune 500’s adoption and usage of blogging and Twitter…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/311882

4.      Socio-Economic Impact of Mobile Phones on Indian Agriculture
by Surabhi Mittal, Sanjay Gandhi, and Gaurav Tripathi
…from February 2010, this paper looks at the impact of mobile phones on the crop sector and, in particular, on small farmers in India. The key finding is that mobile phones can act as a catalyst to rejuvenate the extension services in the country…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/316086/306

5.      Phones Deliver Doctor’s Orders in Africa with FrontlineSMS
by Kim-Mai Cutler
…a September 2009 article discussing the development model of FrontlineSMS:Medic, which uses one-to-one and group text messaging to deliver health care in disparate and remote parts of Sub-Saharan Africa…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/303425/307

6.      Key Findings From the 2009 Middleberg / SNCR Survey of Media in the Wired World
by Jennifer McClure and Don Middleberg
…examines how journalists are adopting new social media and citizen journalism tools and technologies, and their attitudes about how this is affecting their profession…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/311847/2754

7.      ICT-based Distance Education in South Asia
by Sally D. Berman
…an October 2008 report providing a survey of innovative uses of information and communication technology (ICT) for distance education and training in India, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan, at the university level, and in non-formal interventions. Amongst the findings: Traditional media, including radio and television, must play an important continuing role…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/287472/307

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Future Imperatives of Communication and Information for Development and Social Change

In Bangkok, Thailand, from Dec 20-22 2010, an international conference, «Future Imperatives of Communication and Information for Development and Social Change», will be held at United Nations Conference Center. The conference forms part of a series of preparatory and interconnected conferences, coordinated by ORBICOM-UNESCO Chairs in Communication, to focus the attention of information and communication scholars, practitioners, and policymakers on the new challenges towards world development and sustainability. For more information, see:  http://www.comminit.com/redirect.cgi?m=5dcf381cd486d86d4a3f905877d6a3a7

Abstracts and full papers are invited on the following topics:

* Future imperatives regarding ecological and environmental issues and green communication

* Future imperatives regarding communication and social development

* Future imperatives regarding the role of journalism and mass communication on political issues

* Future imperatives regarding communication, prevention, and health

Deadline for abstracts (of @ 600 words): September 1 2010
Deadline for full papers (of @ 7000 words): November 15 2010

For more information about abstract submission, contact: Prof Jan Servaes csschange@gmail.com OR Joel Gershonajjoelgershon@gmail.com OR  Piya  Pongsapitaksanti, Ph.D. piyatom@sun.ac.jp

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EXPERIENCES
http://www.comminit.com/en/experiences.html

8.      Women in Post Conflict Situations (WIPCS) Radio Project – Burundi, DRC, Rwanda
…a project by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) that worked to provide a radio platform for women in post-conflict Rwanda, Burundi, and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to share their stories of survival. The purpose of the project, which concluded in November 2009, was to restore hope…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/290598/3083

9.      Dream Doctors Project – Israel
…integrates professional medical clowning into the medical services provided at Israeli hospitals – drawing on laughter to address the suffering of those in pain, particularly children…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/313023/36

10.     Using the Web to Strengthen Community Radio in Bolivia – Bolivia
…working to equip stations and staff with both the instruments and knowledge to improve their journalistic work, produce content, and keep stations updated on the internet…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/301154/307

11.     Sports for Peace and Life Program – Sudan
…used game-based activities to de-stigmatise HIV/AIDS and teach youth about the difference between HIV and AIDS, how the disease is transmitted, and how to avoid infection…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/272659/347

12.     From Global to Local – Global, South Asia, South East and East Asia, South Pacific
…multilevel communication strategies are being used in an effort to fill the gap between human rights monitoring by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Committee at the international level, and grassroots activism of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) demanding government accountability at the national level…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/303202/348

13.     The Language of Water – Algeria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Territory, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
…involved the production of 4 documentaries about the theme of water in the Arabic/Mediterranean region. Based on the belief that water is an element on which to build dialogue, this initiative is also hoping to help overcome pre-conceptions about the Arabic world…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/317713/306

14.     Red Ribbon Express (RRE) – India
…a multi-sectoral, multi-media social mobilisation campaign taking advantage of India’s extensive railway network to create a conduit for raising AIDS awareness and combating stigma. An 8-coach mobile education and exhibition centre uses technologies such as interactive touch screens and 3D models…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/308323/347

15.     Programa Nacional Wawa Wasi – Peru
…this Peruvian government early childhood development programme draws on interpersonal communication and community participation in an effort to nourish and educate children living in poverty…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/318232/303

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