Suitcase studio short-listed for international award
Me, Charles and Mike at AIB awards in London
At a glittering ceremony in London last night, Feba’s “Chrysolite” studio in a suitcase was one of five entries short-listed for an Association of International Broadcasters award under the category of ‘most innovative technology’. Well it didn’t win, but getting to that stage is a pretty good effort and the fact that it is currently running an emergency radio station in Padang following the earthquake, shows its importance to people in hard places.
The winner was France 24 who had pioneered a way of getting news onto the iPhone. Interesting… I thought delivering news onto the iPhone had been around a while. Ah well…
But when it comes to innovative technology… I think all the awards pail into insignificance with this delightful bit of local improvisation - Africa’s answer to the walkman.
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Hello John! I love this picture of Walk Man! DO you have copyrights for this? I would love to use it in an article in Finland. It was also great to have a photo of you, Charles and Mike from the ceremony.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:06 amEila Murphy, FEBC research coordinator