Dublin Radio, A model for very large audiences
Over the last decade, on nine round-the-world “voyages”, we have stopped in many unusual places and met with many hundreds of exceptional people. We have connected them with just about everything but two tin cans tied to a string - ham radio from Antarctica; cell phone from sailing boats; video streaming from cam corders in Nepal; recorded messages by Skype from the sub-Sahara. In all of that, I would be hard pressed to say which was the “best” one. But if I had to “vote” today, it might well be our stop in an Irish radio station in Dublin lead by a guy by the name of Jack Byrne. Click here for the program for the Dublin stop.
TIME & TEMPURATURE IN DUBLIN
Here’s a wee peek about Jack Byrne –
He’s the founder and past president of AMARC Europe
To find out more about the important work of AMARC, click here
Jack’s a substantive force the sucess of On Line Tracking the magazine of the Community Media Network Ireland
We are exceptionally proud that Jack is a key part of the pilotage of The Dublin Bunch — committed to finding ways to amplify the power of our voices.
Jack’s radio staion in Dublin NearFM is run by about 120 volunteers committed to the idea that ” local people can work together to tackle a range of social problems, including poverty and exclusion through radio.” He is very capably assisted by his son, Gavin Bryne.
What makes it special is that Jack provides both model and leadership to how we can very substantially increase the numbers of those who can hear our messages. There are over 80,000 community radio stations broadcasting in English all over the world. Our belief is that one day we will find the means to reach a reasonable number of those stations and that they, over the 365 days from one GLD to the next, will “play” portions of our event. Jack calls it “barking outside the tent”. And nobody knows how to do that better than this very extraordinary Irishman.
On September 24 Jack adds this: “My contribution to developing these energising ideas is to to propose that we find an inspiring term to describe the electronic linking of thinking humans around the globe. I will publish early next month a ‘Media Activists Handbook’, called ‘The Noosphere’ a term which I borrowed from Teilhard de Chardin’s writing, most notably ‘The Future of Man’. I believe that he was prescient in elaborating on this idea as it seems to me to capture the opportunity that opens before us to devise a more purposeful use for information and communication technologies. To allow us to escalate the type of actions John has been pioneering for years. We need to sense the electronic web encircling our world and we need to sense the potential of millions of human minds linked in networked learning. It is the convergence of the more popular radio and television with the more globe spanning abilities of the web that will enable us to reach each other and vast numbers of global citizens and to engage them in issues critical to our planet, issues rarely touched on by mainstream media.”
Please join us Sunday October 8 when we make our stop in Dublin. What time in your part of the world? Click here
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