Community Radio

Definition

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), [[1]], defines community radio as radio of, by and for a given community. This means that the radio is owned, produced and listened to by the community, upon which substantial parts of the programming will concentrate. Community ownership, community voice and community engagement are, as such, the central aspects of community radio.

Community radio is special as it overcomes obstacles of distance, illiteracy, form and norm by making available a space where oral communication has priority, as does local culture, in a medium which is affordable and manageable. For this reason, community radio has, for the past 20 years, been the preferred communication medium when striving to support community development interventions with information and voice.

Birgitte Jallov