Bonneville International Radio

Bonneville International Radio

Bonneville International Radio

‘Wind-up radio’ in the west and more well off parts of the radio world, has become to mean shock jocks, irate phone-in callers, unsuspecting victims of prank calls, and cleverly edited pieces of radio humour designed to entertain the part of a radio station’s audience that finds practical jokes funny. It’s the radio equivalent of a genre also popular on many TV channels developing some people’s penchant for practical jokes.

Wind Up the World.

Wind-up radio in many less well off parts of the globe has a totally different meaning. For some it can literally mean the difference between life and death. The Freeplay Foundation according to the ‘Who we are’ section of their own website, “is an internationally acclaimed humanitarian organisation." We’ve helped more than 8 million poor and vulnerable people improve the quality of their daily lives through the distribution of sustainable, self powered and environmentally friendly technologies."

These technologies include:

  • Solar powered and self winding radios.
  • Life lights using fuel efficient, LED’s.
  • A foot powered generator, the Weza, able to power low energy devices.

In common with most technologies these would appear to be in continual development, with work in progress towards more self sustaining, self powered technology.


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