How to Use Internet Audio Streaming and Messaging Apps to Produce Community Radio.

This brief explains how to use commodity software, hardware, Internet audio streaming, and messaging apps to empower members of a community to operate a broadcasting service akin to a “community radio station” at low-cost, even while physical distancing restrictions are in place due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The paper covers technical aspects for operating such a broadcasting service and provides references to the approach taken by the Red Cross Children’s Hospital Radio station, winner of the Reboot Health & Wellbeing challenge organized by the World Health Organization and its partners.