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WORLD FAMILY OF RADIO MARIA ONLUS ANNUAL REPORT 2015
Introduction and methodological note
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orld Family of Radio Maria Onlus worked during 2015 looking for ways to respond to the need of our changing world. Communication is one of the sectors which is changing very fast. As we are an association aiming at serving people through communication we have to be prompt to align to the need of people wherever we are called. Social communication is getting more and more important not only in a business and commercial perspective but also in the no-profit sector. Technology is changing rapidly; therefore as World Family of Radio Maria Onlus we want to innovative and use technology to improve life of people.
some parts of the world. It is something which in 2015 did not interest yet most of the developing countries where we work, but we are working in order to be ready when the time in which our partners need support in that field comes. Secondly, the “digital continent� made of social networking and social media is involving more and more people in the developing countries. The usage of internet related technologies is increasing drastically especially due to a wide and capillary presence of mobile phone operators in Latina America and Africa, which recently filled the digital gap with the developed world. As also in developing countries more and more people are users of social media, we increased our efforts in providing formation, assistance and support to our partners in order for them to use those tools efficiently in helpung their own beneficiaries. In particular we implemented a training course in Rwanda for journalists and workshops in Tanzania to students of Mass Communications aimed at forming youths in the art of communicating peace both via traditional means and social medias. In this particular case the project
This intention finds an application in several aspects of our work. First, the traditional radio broadcasting, which is the communication means we were born for is changing. Digital radio broadcasting is now a reality that requests us to be innovative in
In Africa we started a project which intends to assist people forced to flee their countries
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