Community radio: guidelines on how to record and broadcast communities' meetings

Guidelines for broadcasting community meetings for Web and mobile access were developed and integrated into the project Website. The preferred option is that all meetings about the station are aired live on the station as they happen. Secondarily, RootIO provides features that allow for the recordings of meetings to be aired, as well as synthesizing audio from minutes of meetings. 

After various discussions with the project partners, including those more involved in community outreach, the focus went on strengthening the possibilities of using voice and telephone in the assembly processes of decision-making. For this reason, a tutorial on how to use RootIO for this goal was designed, focused on showing how to broadcast an assembly and how to allow people to take part in it through the use of the telephone. This solution offers the possibility of involving as many people as possible in the decision-making process, avoiding the digital divide, directly addressing one of the focal issues of community governance. The aim of these guidelines was to offer a simple and clear tool to the communities that could guide them in two main tasks: the recording and broadcasting of public events through the use of a phone and the RootIO technology and the retrieval of this material and publication of some excerpts.

The live broadcasting of the community radio stations’ meetings can also support the achievement of other social outcomes. This operation places focus on the importance of transparent assembly decision-making processes that can be heard by the entire community. The opportunity to intervene during the assemblies through a simple phone call increases the possibility of people’s participation in the discussion. This document is the result of mock-ups for mobile and desktop designed.