Dr Nadia Pantidi, lecturer at School of Applied Psychology in University College Cork and co-investigator at the Grassroots Radio Project, was invited as a keynote speaker at the Internet Festival 2019 – which took place in Pisa (Italy) recently – as part of the event...
We are thrilled to see the Grassroots Radio project featured on the European Journalism Observatory (EJO), a network of 15 independent non-profit media research institutes which aims to bridge journalism research and practice in Europe, and to foster professionalism and press freedom. The article describes the...
Grassroots Radio, with the RootIO free/open innovation, has joined the 20th Pixxelpoint - Festival of Contemporary Art Practices 2019, which is taking place in Nova Gorica (Slovenia) in these days from 15 to 23 November. Pixxelpoint is a festival focused on the broad field of exploration...
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...
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...
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...
Grassroots Radio partner RootIO is gearing up to support the deployment of the two stations in Romania (Varvorul de Jos and Sf. Gheorghe) as well as the broadcasting efforts of the Bere Island station in Ireland. Here are some updates guys from RootIO have shared. For...
Grassroots Radio's new factsheet is out! This piece of information provides an overview of RootIO, the free/open technology stack facilitated within the project. RootIO combines low-power community FM with contemporary Internet communication technologies for a very low cost, thus facilitating the operation of low power FM radio stations...