La radio comunitaria en los últimos 30 años: consolidación, desarrollo e incidencia de CORAPE

Abstract

This article analyzes the importance of popular and community communication of the Coordinator of Community, Popular and Educational Media of Ecuador (CORAPE) in the last 30 years. This organization has 36 associated radio stations and more than 60 production centers, all linked to alternative communication. The methodology of this research begins with the bibliographic inquiry that supports the theoretical reference, and which was organized in digital files (Word and PDF) and in thematic folders entitled: CORAPE, Community media, Community communication and Communication-development. To corroborate the data of the historical line of CORAPE, the official, institutional, historical and incidence documentary research was carried out, a management that compiled magazines and articles about the institution, the relations with the Ecuadorian and international media environment and the forms of incidence. Semi-structured interviews were used with collaborators and people related to the institution, for this, formal consents were signed, questionnaires were elaborated that were applied to the Executive Secretary of CORAPE, Jorge Guachamín, to the director of CIESPAL, Msc. Gissela Dávila, who is considered a strategic ally; and to the producers of the associated radio stations: Luis Dávila from IRFEYAL and Belgium Chela from the Popular Radio Schools of Ecuador. In the first place, the historical line of the Coordinator was established as categories of analysis from milestones in which CORAPE evolves, that is, strategies, proposals, projects, events, efforts and formative and productive relationships with other national and international institutions.