Community Broadcast Radio

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38 信息和通讯技术的发展使人们广泛运用互联网成为可能

DATE=4-23-01
TITLE=DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Community Broadcast Radio
BYLINE=Gary Garriott

(Start at 59")This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
Computers and connecting to the Internet computer system have become important in recent yeas. Information and （1）communication technologies make this happen. Through some of these Special English reports, we have been exploring ways in which （2）information and communication technologies can permit¹ more people to use the Internet.
Many organizations believe that everyone, even poor people, should be able to use information and communication technologies. However, people must know how to read and write in order to use (3) computers. In many countries, more than half the adult population cannot read or write.
Now a United² Nations agency³ has an idea about how to bring information from the Internet to people who cannot read or write. The agency is UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. UNESCO has projects that combine two information and communication (4) technologies.
One technology is community (5) broadcast radio. The radio station you are listening to now, the Voice of America, has big powerful⁴ （6）transmitters set up around the world. But it is also possible to use small transmitters operating at low power. Broadcasts from these stations reach only a few (7) square kilometers. But many people can listen to the radio within this area.
Community broadcast radio is combined with computers and the Internet at a multi-media community center. For example, farmers can go to the center and ask a question about a farming⁵ problem. Then workers at the center search the Internet for an answer. They broadcast the answer to the whole community over the radio station.
Many groups are experimenting with this idea. One is Radio Kothmale in Sri Lanka. People from （8）community radio stations all over the world met in Kothmale at a meeting supported by UNESCO. They learned⁶ what has made Radio Kothmale a success. And they learned how to use the Internet in their own programs to help people who cannot read or write.
You can get more information about Radio Kothmale and UNESCO at the Internet address, www.unesco.org. Or you can write to Special English, Voice of America, Washington⁷, D-C Two-Zero-Two-Three-Seven, U-S-A.
This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Gary Garriott.

 注释：
（1） communication[ kE7mju:ni5keiFn ]n.传达, 信息, 交通, 通讯
（2） information[ 7infE5meiFEn ]n.通知, 报告
（3） computer[ kEm5pju:tE ]n.计算机, 电脑
（4） technology[ tek5nClEdVi ]n.工艺, 科技, 技术
（5） broadcast[ 5brC:dkB:st ]n.广播, 播音v.播撒(种子)
（6） transmitter[ trAnz5mitE ]n.转送者, 传达人, 传导物
（7） square[ skwZE ]n.正方形, 广场adj.正方形的, 四方的adv.成直角地, 正直地
（8） community[ kE5mju:niti ]n.公社, 团体