Panos Radio South Asia produces two radio programs called "Panoscope" and "Development Dilemmas" to encourage public debate on development issues in South Asia. "Panoscope" is a 15-minute radio magazine featuring commentary and interviews on development topics. "Development Dilemmas" is a half-hour radio discussion that brings together voices on a single theme each month to draw attention to different perspectives on development models in the region. Both programs aim to give voice to poor and marginalized peoples on issues like conflict, environment, globalization, media pluralism, and public health.
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Panos Radio South Asia (PRSA) is an undertaking of Panos
South Asia.In keeping with Panos South Asias mission
to encourage and stimulate informed public debate on
key developmental issues in South Asia and to ensure the
effective flow of information from media in the south to the
north and vice versa,Panos Radio South Asia produces radio
programs to be distributed via the internet and Interworld
Radio (www.interworldradio.org).
PRSA currently produces a 15-minute radio magazine titledPanoscopeand
Development Dilemmas,a nearly half-an-hour long radio discussion,that
aims to capture the voices of poor and marginalized people in South Asia on
general development issues including Panos South Asias five thematic areas
- conflict,environment,globalization,media pluralism and public health.
Panoscopeis an independent production of Panos Radio
South Asia (PRSA).A fortnightly production,Panoscopeis
a 15-minute radio magazine with features,commentaries,
oral testimonies and interviews on key South Asian
development issues.Panoscopeis committed to providing
media space for raising the voices of the poor and
marginalized in development and issues not often heard in
the mainstream media.
Development Dilemmasbrings together multiple voices twice a month
on a single theme,drawing the attention of policy makers as well as
ordinary citizens to the innumerable nuances that characterize our
development models.It is a seminar room; a meeting place; a debating
site and an incubator of new ideas,methods,and systems to facilitate
free flow of knowledge from the portals of academia and experts to
ordinary citizens and vice-versa through the wonderful gateway called
media.
Panos South Asia (PSA) realizes the compelling needs to bridge the
yawning gap between the decision making process and the citizens.
Only a multi-directional information flow can create inclusive policy
paradigms that make peoples life less burdensome.
Panos South Asias latest effort,to create a public siteDevelopment
Dilemmas,stems from this desire.The focus is to constantly remind
everyone that there is no ONE right opinion but multiple right opinions
and the need of the hour is to make this as plural and inclusive as
possible.
Development Dilemmas (DD) is a radio discussion,of around half-an-
hour duration.It is an independent production of Panos Radio South
Asia,an undertaking of Panos South Asia.
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