#Romania: first licences for community radios
For the first time in Romania, two community radio station licenses have being ssued in the framework of the European project #GrassrootWavelengths '
''The project will create two community prototype stations each in Portugal, Ireland, and Romania, with the aim of building regional decentralized networks, connected to European and international journalism and information.''
http://www.amarc.org/?q=node/2754
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'The internet has helped to bring people together from all over the world, but it has not helped neighborhoods or communities nearly as well. The #GrassrootWavelengths project is piloting solutions for community information platforms and media pluralism...'
''...brings together engineers, social scientists, artists, designers, and communities to redesign community #radio technology from scratch.''
#grassrootwavelengths is build on the #RootIO #radio platform, a free/open hardware and software stack that allows the creation of a station based on an inexpensive smart phone. Community members listen on #FM radio, and interact with the station through the Web and their phones''
Very interesting project (remote controlled low-power FM station). The codebase however doesn't look quite as portable as it might be, with some old dependencies in the requirements that have since been updated.
It does have me thinking though....low power FM + internet can be quite a bit of fun.
@paulfree14 interesting project - coincidentally the tech used by RootIO is not dissimilar to that used by Dutch pirate broadcasters 😉
