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RadioActive, a social organisation providing technical equipment and support to groups both with and without funding around the world

RadioActive provides training, equipment, and technical services to communities around the world. The group also partners with NGO-funded radio start-ups. One arm of the organisation provides funding and support, while the other aims to provide support to groups with established funds with training, installation and equipment.

RadioActive (has a goal of) making people’s lives better, making a difference, making people feel less isolated. Music is a secondary (focus)…these stations are not about promoting music but more about what radio can do as a tool.

What is this creative economy? It is an economic system that relies most on ideas to serve as its major capital, instead of services or physical capital. Take Google for example. In an economy based on ideas, the potentialfor breakaway successes like Google is far greater.

According to Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class: And How it’s Transforming Work, Leisure,Community and Everyday Life, members of the creative class are very different from those who are employed in the manufacturing, service or agriculture industries. They contribute to our economy primarily by producing the new forms and ideas exploited by our various industries and decision-makers.   What Florida terms the “super creative core” of this new class includes “scientists and engineers, university professors, poets and novelists, artists, entertainers, actors, designersand architects, as well as the ‘thought leadership’ of modern society: non-fiction writers, editors, cultural figures, think-tank researchers, analysts and other opinion-makers.”

What sets a creative city apart from a non-creative city? Florida proposes that it is the “three Ts of economic development”: technology, talent and tolerance.