A Tibetan exile group in Northern India (whose work I've reported on previously for Boing Boing, WIRED, and NPR) is seeking used voice recording gear for an upstart independent community radio station.
At left, a photo I shot of Phuntsok Dorjee with a fellow volunteer, setting up a wireless network relay point inside a tribal family's garage on the top of a mountain at the southern edge of the Himalayas. Goats and routers, under the same roof, not far from the Tibetan Government in Exile's home of Dharamsala, India.
Phuntsok says,
"We have 10 students in the radio team but have only 2 Sony IC voice recorders. A friend of the organization will be in San Francisco sometime in early July on his way to India and he can bring for us the voice recorder if we manage to get some."
Got any used voice recorders, or related gear you're not using? Email him at: phuntsok at tcv.org.in. These are good folks, doing innovative work without a lot of resources.
Related: A Wireless Network for 'Little Lhasa' (Xeni on NPR)
- BBtv Vlog (Xeni): Tibet's uprising and the internet – Boing Boing
- Xeni on G4's AOTS re: Tibet and China's 'net blackout – Boing Boing
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- Hacking the Himalayas: Xeni's stories and trek-blog from Tibet and …
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- BBtv WORLD (Tibet): Inside Lhasa – Boing Boing
- NPR "Hacking the Himalayas," part 2: Connecting exiles online …
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