Nikipedia and I racked our brains to figure out a catchy way to open “Global Voices, Caribbean Accents”, the roundtable we’ll be leading in a few hours’ time at the National Library. The roundtable is part of the programme of the Caribbean Studies Assocation’s annual conference, which is taking place this year here in Trinidad, and will address, as Nikipedia puts it on his blog, “the current and potential roles of blogging and other forms of participative web media in the Caribbean.”
Then yesterday evening it hit us: what better way to demonstrate the potential of the Internet than by opening with a podcast composed of the voices of some the people [we hope will be] in the audience? In other words, by putting our audience on the Internet, even before they’ve become our audience. So yesterday morning found us down at the Crowne Plaza hotel, getting as as many conference delegates as we could pin down to answer the question: “What does the term “Caribbean” mean to you?”
And here is the result: CFR #43, roundtable opener in the guise of a CFR podcast. Hope you enjoy what our audience has to say.
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The song played on this show is “Now Is the Time” (Ronaldinho Remix) by 3canal: the original version of the song is from the album Jab Jab Say, which can be purchased at CDBaby, along with 3canal’s 2006 release, 3canal Vibes. And while you’re at it, now would also be a great time to purchase a Limited Edition Commemorative World Cup Warriors t-shirt from 3canal’s 3line t-shirt collection.
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brilliant! takes me back to the caribbean and hearing all those voices i conversed with last year makes me feel as though I am there again this year. 
I really like the Global Voices Related podcasts Georgia.. especially this particular one. You’ve a nack for communicationg with everyday people on the streets. Or so it seems when I listen.
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