Kibwezi: Radio uses phone to boost security
- Posted on Tuesday 6 July 2010 - 18:31Yusuf Maleli, VoicesofAfrica mobile alumnus in Kibwezi, KenyaA local community radio in Kibwezi District Eastern Province of Kenya, has recently started using mobile phones to let listeners alert other residents on insecurity issues, especially those caused by wild animals escaping from the nearby national parks. The system in which the radio and he phone is made to work is simple.Loading video...The station has acquired a simple mobile phone but with a loud speaker that can be activated to make big voice. This phone is placed at near the live microphone in the on air studio used by the radio presenters, enabling the incoming voice calls of the listeners to be transmitted through the studio microphone to radio receivers, thereby sharing the information with other residents.
‘We have been using mobile phones in our radio stations to especially improve security in our area, and more so this has been going on within our continuity presentations, and every morning in our radio station we have been receiving calls from our audience to alert us what has been happening in our area’, say Mr. Joseph Wambua Nyamai, a presenter in the radio who conducts the call-in programmes.
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