Ecuador
With a panel that will analyze the validity of the Radio and the importance of promoting popular, community and citizen radio online, as a tool to democratize communication and culture, the Production Training Program for a Community Radio is launched. and Ciudadana, which aims to train 100 young communicators from 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The training proposal is organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Catholic Association of Communication, SIGNIS ALC , and the support of ALER and CIESPAL .
The panel, which will take place this Wednesday, April 14, from 09:00 (Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Panama time); 10h00 (time in Venezuela, Cuba, Paraguay, Dominican Republic); 11h00 (Argentina-Brazil), will have the participation of the professor and researcher of the National University of La Plata and the National University of Quilmes, Claudia Villamayor, and the professor and researcher of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Mauro Cerbino , author and co-editor of several communication works.
During the inaugural panel of the Radio Production Training Program, the importance of a radio station during the health emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is spreading throughout the world, and the participation of youth in the processes of communication and the enhancement of online radio.
In this production training program for community and citizen radio, 100 young communicators from SIGNIS national associates in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Mexico participate.
The training will be carried out online, through the SIGNIS ALC virtual training platform (moodle), for eight months (one module per month), with a work plan that includes asynchronous activities for three weeks and a synchronous meeting to be held during the third week of each month, in which the facilitators will meet in a virtual meeting to deepen the theoretical content and analysis of reality that have been scheduled for participants to develop individually or in groups.
The training program
The radio training course for young communicators of SIGNIS ALC aspires to be a space to deepen the debate on communication as a human right, as well as a process of construction of content and radio programs that will be shared through community and citizen radio in line to be created and aired as part of the training program.
The program seeks to combine political training, critical analysis of the Latin American reality, with mastery of tools that allow the amplification of educommunicative productions. This training proposal is created in response to the need for training and the construction of joint knowledge, to face -from the communicative exercise- changes in the context, the various readings of the environments and scenarios, as well as to imagine from this analysis and interpretation, the necessary and possible paths of communicative-educational action for those who participate, to contribute to social transformation.
The inaugural act of the radio training program will feature the participation of representatives of various institutions and communication organizations in Latin America and the world, such as the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See, CELAM, SIGNIS worldwide, ALER, CIESPAL, AMARC, among other.