University College Cork (UCC) kickstarted the RootIO implementation by creating a radio program to broadcast student experiences on the BA Psychology and Computing course at UCC. Psychology and Computing is a course in its infancy (it's second year running!). UCC is using this broadcast to...
Last week, Grassroots Radio was presented at the 6th Conference of the Radio Research Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Roberto Cibin, on behalf of various researchers involved in the project, presented a paper titled “Fostering Community Radio: the Grassroots Radio...
On Thursday 5th and Friday 6th of September 2019, the Grassroots Radio consortium celebrated the third general assembly of the project, hosted in the friendly building of 11.11.11. – the coalition of NGOs, unions, movements and various solidarity groups in Flanders (Dutch speaking Northern part...
Grassroots Radio coordinator Chris Csikszentmihalyi has been invited as special guest at the Transitory Museum's Summer week, which takes place between July 25th and August 11th in Trotte Pfyn (Transitorisches Museum zu Pfyn). Chris will introduce RootIO, the technology supporting Grassroots Radio, and help the museum being on...
Grassroots Radio partner CereProc has launched the world’s first commercially available Irish language synthetic voice as part of the Grassroots Radio project. CereProc’s Text-to-Speech technology will be used by a community radio station on Bere Island in south-west Cork to generate spoken content when the station...
University College Cork and Bere Island Heritage Centre represented the Grassroots Project at the recent Oral History Network of Ireland Conference in Limerick. The conference was about oral histories in the digital age and we presented ideas of collecting Bere island's oral histories via the...
Last Thursday, June 6th, Grassroots Radio was in Wien at the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies. A paper regarding the activities the project's partners undertook to obtain the broadcasting license was presented to an audience of researchers, designers, educators, industry, and students with...
Romania: the 30th of May at 12h20 local, it was a small step for radiophony but a huge step for the Romanian community of Sfantu Gheorge. On the 89.9 Mhz FM frequency, on air operations have officially started. The RootIo technology, still in its experimenting...
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is a biennial multi-stakeholder forum established by the UN General Assembly to review progress, share knowledge and discuss the latest developments and trends in reducing disaster risk. The sixth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction...
Bere Island Community Radio held their third broadcast last Sunday May 19th, broadcasting on 100.1FM locally and worldwide on the Internet. The three-hour show was co-presented by two island women, Eileen Murphy and Angela Sullivan. As Ireland has local and European elections on May 24th...