Original peoples of Panama have a first digital radio

Panama City.- “Radio Voces Originales Panamá” is called the first digital radio of the National Coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples of Panama, COONAPIP, which was created by popular communicators and communicators from the 7 original peoples of the country. The initiative was carried out thanks to the management of funds with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), through the Regional Office for Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean (ORMAC) and the Association Center for Studies and Social Action Panamanian CEASPA.

This collective effort arises from the need to expose the realities of the peoples through popular communication as a human right to the media and freedom of expression.

The technical team informed the traditional indigenous authorities of the steps that are being carried out to achieve digital radio, including the purchase of equipment, the adaptation of a physical space for the radio, the training of the technical team and the personnel of the different territories that will have the responsibility of managing and producing the material that will be broadcast on the station.

In the coming weeks, COONAPIP will also present the bases for a contest that will allow choosing the logo and slogan of “Radio Voces Originales Panamá” , in which all interested parties from the seven peoples and 12 indigenous territories of the country are expected to participate. country.

Source: Radio Temblor Internacional (Dania Betzy Batista Guevara