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What are the aims of the project?
Broadening Audiences
- Bringing spoken word on social and environmental issues to a bigger audience
- Improving accessibility of existing text
- Supporting campaign groups
- Actively engaging the various social movements in making their info/publications more accesible (by alternative formats)
- Actively supporting people with reading disabilities (visually impaired, dyslexia)
- Creating an open and welcoming environment for people to get involved
- Promote the use of creative commons (open licenses) and the use of open source software
What content?
- Radical content
- Spoken word of already existing text
- Social political/environmental
- Mirroring Indymedia type issues
What kind of text?
- Books
- Articles
- Newsletters
- Magazines
- Indymedia Print Outs
- Campaigning leaflets/flyers
- Underground zines
- Papers
- Manuals/guides
- Handbooks
Who is it for?
Target Groups
- Visually impaired or those with other reading disabilities
- People with mp3 players who listen on their way to work/action/holiday/travels
- Indymedia users
- Radio groups searching for content (radioshows could review of talking-book-projects and feature short abstracts on their shows)
Contributors?
Those to read and record
- Authors (encouraging authors to read from their own work)
- Campaign groups/activists
- Indymedia contributors/users
- People who enjoy reading to others
- Radio groups (more easily access to studio/recording equipment)
What the project isn't for...
- No fiction
- No cookbooks
- No things totally unrelated to social/ environmental issues
- Copyrighted material (unless with permission)
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