Worldspace Foundation

Africa Learning Channel
Launched in December 1999, the Africa Learning Channel (ALC) is collective information service dedicated exclusively to noncommercial, open access, educational and social development programming. It broadcasts ?first voice? programs developed from content produced locally by African community broadcasters, nongovernmental organizations, media agencies, and other community-based organizations.
The ALC is dedicated to effecting change and promoting peace and prosperity in Africa. It is a forum for Africans to talk to each other continent-wide, from village to village and compound to compound, sharing ideas, best practices and solutions to common problems. It gives voice to populations that have not been heard, and empowers them with the knowledge they need to participate in the new global village.
To date, approximately 55.5 million people in 51 African countries have listened at least once to an ALC program on topics such as HIV/AIDS, good governance, youth development, gender, micro-enterprise, food security, environment, agriculture, and English as a Second Language.

The Multimedia Service
Since 2000, First Voice International has been providing a cost-effective and reliable mechanism for the distribution of multimedia data to target audiences in Africa. In 2002, the Multimedia Service (MMS) began broadcasting to Asia and the Pacific, transmitting information on food security, HIV/AIDS and other health issues, governance, disaster preparedness, and teacher training, etc.
The service supports people throughout Africa and Asia for whom information is essential resource for the successful implementation of their vocations. These include teachers, health workers, doctors and nurses, meteorologists and rural extension workers, local government officers, and community development workers, to name a few. They rely on the MMS for access to multimedia (web-based text, graphics and audio) data in regions where Internet access is not available, unreliable or prohibitively expensive.