 Table of Contents
Executive Summary
I. Introduction
Structure of the report
II. What is community radio?
III. Background
Actors and Interests
Human capacity
Telecommunication and Transportation Infrastructure
IV. Media in Afghanistan
The developing media landscape
Radio
- Receivers
- Radio Afghanistan / Radio Kabul
- Provincial Radio Afghanistan stations
- Radio Free Afghanistan and Voice of America
- BBC
- Radio Sada-I-Solh
- Bamiyan
- ISAF
- Coalition Forces
- Radio Voice of Afghan Women
- Faculty of Journalism, Kabul University
- Others
Television
Print
News agencies
Internet
V. Community radio in Afghanistan: Some questions and tentative answers
How will community radio fit in the public radio system?
Who is interested in community radio?
What type of local radio for Afghanistan?
Is there a grassroots demand for community radio?
What kind of programming would it have?
Will the legal and policy framework allow it?
How can community radio be independent and responsive?
What broadcast technology?
The Internet
Coordination 
VI. Recommendations
General
Awareness
Legal
Governance
Technology
Coordination
VII. Appendices
1.
Persons interviewed during the fact-finding mission
2. Details of active organizations interviewed
3. Radio stations in Afghanistan
The
report was authored by Bruce
Girard and Jo van der Spek. It
is available for download from the Internet at http://comunica.org/afghanistan/cr_afghan.pdf
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