Whilst hosting the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC)’ s AM Service weekly midday show – Kot Lakour – in 2003, a bright idea suddenly dawned on me.
I would create a fortnightly 15-minute feature that would help familiarize women at home, or housewives, with home electronics! The show would answer questions like:
·How do you maintain your microwave, electric toothbrush
or washing machine?
·Where are the best places to set up your home
technologies?
·Which technologies are the most important to new
homebuyers?
·How do you choose electronic devices?
·Can you trust anybody to fix your electronic devices?
These simple questions, I had hoped, would help provide answers. The point is that users should not struggle to use new technologies. If anything, they should enjoy the benefits that home electronics have to offer.
However, the idea soon developed into a 30-minute fortnightly magazine show. The show debates issues such as, how and under what conditions Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can best be used in the development process of Seychelles in general.
The range of topics dealt with over the last three years have illustrated how ICTs can:
·Help to empower people by opening up educational and
other opportunities,
·Be used to improve quality and delivery of public
services,
·Have potentially harmful side effects and how they are
best avoided.
The programme is the only one of its kind and it promotes information society issues locally. It also aims at opening up communication channels, which reach out to all Seychellois.
Listen to Seychelles Digital every two Wednesdays @ 7.30pm. The repeat is on the following Sunday @ 10.30am (AM: 219m 1368 kHz. Online: SBC Radio).
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