At present, it is becoming clear in Europe how great the dependence on monopolistic U.S. providers is. These do not see themselves as media publishers and, in this sense, do not want to take responsibility for their role in a democratic discourse process. The predominant business model is the trade […]
Dominic Köstler
We recently reported on the features of the Cultural Broadcast Archive (CBA). One of the future features of the CBA is to be the transcription of podcasts. This is where Open Audio Search comes into play.The first step is to perform audio transcription via a speech recognition engine. This converts […]
The Cultural Broadcasting Archive (CBA) is a civil society media and communication platform. In addition, CBA is Austria’s largest podcast provider with completely free access. CBA is now to be expanded in the German-speaking region. Datasets and the communityThe focus with the CBA is for the Endnutzer:innen on speed. The […]
ECB 2.0 is an initiative to build a federated platform for European civil society media and content producers. Launched by developers, archivists and community media providers, we aim to connect communities across Europe by developing a sustainable and self-managed alternative to centralized commercial services for the publishing and preservation of […]
Digitalisation is advancing and simply “making radio” is usually no longer enough. To make our radio visible we also have to be present on social media and keep the followers happy. But not only social media is an important challenge for us, also internal public relations. How do we best […]
The Orban government has revoked the license of the Hungarian citizen radio station “Civil Radio” after 24 years. The free radios in Baden-Württemberg are also threatened with being deported to the Internet if they are switched off in the future. What does this mean for the European civil society in […]