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December 21, 2023
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source
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Read more📻 Indigenous Community Media Fund
December 21, 2022
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio, Television
Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere -40 Celsius here in Tagish Yukon. For our neighbours to the south, -40C is the same as -40F 2023 Call for Proposals for the Indigenous Community Media FundThe Indigenous Community Media Fund at Cultural Survival provides opportunities for Indigenous community radio stations and media outlets to strengthen their broadcast infrastructure […]
Read moreHindi language accessibility translations
April 11, 2022
Accessibility, Language, Open Source
All the menus and help screens for Observer are now translated into UTF8 Hindi language for the community radio sector in India for everyone to enjoy. We are lucky to have Mohit Godiya on our team, not only providing technical support and coding, but also speaking\writing 7 different languages assisting global users.
Read more📻 Rob is Analog 📻 ALFF Audience Favorite Award
March 8, 2022
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio, Television
Available Light Film Festival 2022 Audience Choice Winners The winner of the ALFF Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Documentary, Rob Is Analog, was also the audience favorite overall. Yukon filmmaker, Jessica Hall’s funny and charming documentary about “Radio Rob” Hopkins: a ramshackle communications pirate who pioneered community radio in Southern Yukon and fights for […]
Read more🎉 Hindsight is 20/20…Foresight is 2020 🎉
January 21, 2020
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio
Happy New Year! Welcome to The New Decade! I’m presently located in and working out of Nan Thailand until April, 2020. Sawadee Cup! During the next 4 months, I’ll be travelling to neighbouring countries and hoping to meet some of you face to face. Complimentary Raspberry PI To celebrate this new decade, we are offering […]
Read more🕘 Stop Wasting Time. You Have Even Better Things To Do With It 🕔
October 4, 2018
Language, Open Source
Grass Roots Radio Conference Portland, Oregon – Oct 5 -7 Bill Polonsky, our training manager from the frozen city of Whitehorse Yukon and Adam Brody, marketing and business development will be delivering a joint presentation and hands on demonstration. Raspberry Pi Pyrate Radio — Open Source EAS Friday October 5 at 9:30 AM. Join us […]
Read more📻 New Indigenous Radio Station Receives Federal Funding
April 23, 2018
Language, Radio
Crystal Rain Harry (left) and Bella Alphonse train with Rob Hopkins from Tagish, Yukon for the new Tsilhqot’in Community Radio station, launched on Friday, Dec. 15. On Monday the federal government announced $180,500 in funding for the radio project. New indigenous radio station receives federal funding Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announced […]
Read moreHow did I get here in radio land?
January 23, 2018
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio, Television
Rob Hopkins – Tagish, Yukon Back in 1989 – 1993 I was able to save up and take off with my bicycle and spend a few years traveling around the world, through China, India, South East Asia and Europe. I was able to subsidize my traveling and live the “Yukon dream” by spending 6 months […]
Read more2 Yukon Companies Assist in Deployment of Radio Network in Nunavut
August 31, 2016
Language, Open Source, Radio
For Immediate Release Aug 31, 2016 OpenBroadcaster Inc and Computerisms Corporation are pleased to have played a part in a project spearheaded by SSI Micro and the Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA) to introduce its latest public service, the Kitikmeot Radio Network (KRN). The pilot project was launched July 9th and was timed to coincide with […]
Read moreKIA SSI Radio project in Kitikmeot Region Nunavut
February 14, 2016
Language, Radio
KITIKMEOT INUIT ASSOCIATION AND SSI MICRO TO COLLABORATE ON REGIONAL RADIO PILOT PROJECT Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, June 11th, 2015 The Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA) and SSI Micro are very pleased to announce a collaborative partnership to launch a Regional Radio Pilot Project in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot region. The Pilot Project will operate for an initial two […]
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