{"id":18,"date":"2004-11-15T23:57:48","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T21:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2010-11-14T02:03:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T00:03:13","slug":"annual-report-2004-from-internews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Annual Report 2004 from Internews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internews.org\">Internews<\/a>, an international non-profit organization that supports open media worldwide, just released their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internews.org\/about\/ar2004\/annual_report_2004.pdf\">2004 Annual Report<\/a>. Quite an interesting read for anyone interested in efforts to increase participation and enable a public sphere in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the recent Afghan election, I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internews.org\/regions\/centralasia\/afghanistan.htm\">Internews activities in Afghanistan<\/a> is worthy of special a special mention. Working primarily with the medium of radio (due to a very low literacy rate), Internews is trying to increase political awareness among the citizens, as well as providing other programming. (One of their radio programmes for children <em>Shahrak Atfal<\/em>, became so popular that a TV-station relayed the audio feed on TV.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internews, an international non-profit organization that supports open media worldwide, just released their 2004 Annual Report. Quite an interesting read for anyone interested in efforts to increase participation and enable a public sphere in developing countries. Considering the recent Afghan election, I think Internews activities in Afghanistan is worthy of special a special mention. Working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-ict4d"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}