ICT SupportPodcasts reach Peruvian villages

Podcasts reach Peruvian villages. BBC. Online March 2006. …a new pilot project is using podcasting to get important agricultural information to farmers. …UK charity Practical Action has married old and new technology to podcast twice-monthly updates to eight information centres... These telecentres, many of which are run on solar power, automatically download the programmes onto CDs to rebroadcast them on local radio stations. … effective to distribute audio material to local people, who prefer listening in their own dialect to being sent the written word. Each area within Cajamarca is sent information relevant to them. …