What lessons could South Asian countries draw from SDC s experience in Africa and Latin America?
We can only be a catalyst, a convener for bringing people together for exchanging knowledge. That s the reason why SDC supports the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) because GKP is about building partnerships and sharing of knowledge. So how to create the space for sharing knowledge is one of our important subjects. We are sure that there are so many things to look into. But also a lot of local content is available in any country and to make it accessible to others is also an important objective. I think in South-East Asia there is still a different concern about getting licences for local radio, community radio. We have seen from our experience in Africa and Latin America that local radio is an extremely powerful tool to inform people about disasters and many other things. But in many countries people or governments, especially politicians, think that local radio can become politically too powerful or can be used by the opposition parties against them. Information is power for people
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