Mr. Robbie Kitt:

I want to talk about some of the ways organisations such as ours can offer media literacy. Dublin Digital Radio's programming includes "Arts Alive", which is a monthly show broadcast from Galway for people with learning disabilities, "Young DDR" is a show which was made exclusively by primary school students and "Atomic" is a music show which platforms teenagers who make music. "Quare in the Archive" is a show which documents the history of queer cultures in Ireland. I speak about that just to highlight the kind of thing an organisation like ours, a volunteer internet broadcaster, can offer. I would like to mention some of the ways we try to expand our ideas of diversity because those tenets are central to our organisation. We do it largely through events. Thinking of events held by other broadcasters, I remember Lark in the Park which was hosted by RTÉ. It was before my time. I do not know if anyone here remembers it. It was public gigs held in public parts run by RTÉ Radio 2. Those types of events are really important to us. It goes back to Dr. Wheatley's point about transparency - I commend her work - on resources and media organisations but also the operations of media organisations. We would encourage the talk about community media hubs. That would show how media organisations operate in a transparent way. Many local and larger media organisations are entrenched in communities but if they are physically entrenched too it gives a much broader reach to that community involvement. DDR operates from an art studio space in Dublin city and every month during the summer we ran open-air studios where we broadcast outside the complex for the day. It was very visually transparent and a visual version of our broadcasting activities which was very accessible. Anyone walking by on the street could see what was going on. There are a lot of opportunities in the idea of community media hubs to make media organisations more transparent.