I like your points Warren and would like to also add that if I had access to large funding I would opt to finance or fund educational radio and programs on topics beyond the aid-driven topics such as HIV-AIDS or poverty reduction, that ensure educational programs for Africa, the Carribean and Asia that would boost their participation in trade and economic development so that their input might provide a concrete and feasible solution to end things like high end financial crisis created by irresponsible banking,etc or the drag-down of consistently deprived economies at the expense of raw resource exploitation and low profit gain.

Anonymous

great blog warren...i would look forward to how people respond to your point about basket funding. for people like me, intensely engaged with television, multi-funding sources, which has become the only way for documentary film-making, is a critical issue. film-makers find it very hard to raise this multi-funding from different places. a concept like this is really needed in the broadcast sector. in a project we are working on at present, LINCT (Leveraging International Networks for Co-productions and Training - www.docnetworld.org) we are trying to see how the Third Sector can become a stakeholder in the broadcast sector. Pooling of Third Sector resources within public service television should be a feasible idea. unfortunately there is so much lack of trust and a basic resistance. dialogue is essential and we are trying to promote that dialogue, albeit on a very small scale. so i look forward to seeing other comments about basket funding that could inspire us for some better strategies!!