The conference series ‘OurMedia’ is coming to Sydney in April of next year. The last conference was in Bangalore in India; which unfortunately I missed because I couldn’t get a plane on that date. It is a strange leap from Bangalore to Sydney. Sydney is just so Third World when it comes to ICT compared to India. Sydney is home to all those cultural theorists who wouldn’t know a mother board if they found one in their Focaccia. I am sure that the Indians will teach us how to use technology as long as we keep digging rocks out of the desert to pay for it and buying books from Western Europe to ‘theorise’ it.
The Australian community broadcasting sector is over 30 years old, founded on the principles of access, diversity, localism and independence. The sector is now the largest sector of the Australian media: in 2005 there were 341 community radio stations, 54 additional stations holding or seeking temporary licenses, 76 remote Indigenous community television licensees and 6 generalist community television stations
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