BBC World Service Trust
Encyclopedia
The BBC World Service Trust is the BBC
's international development charity
, funded independently by external grants and voluntary contributions. The purpose of the organization is to use media and communication to reduce poverty and promote human rights. It works in partnership with the BBC World Service
and other local media and development partners in over forty developing and transitional countries around the world.
In 2011 there was controversy in America
over the American government's discussion of funding the BBC World Service Trust to combat censorship in China
and censorship in Iran
.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
's international development charity
Charitable organization
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A...
, funded independently by external grants and voluntary contributions. The purpose of the organization is to use media and communication to reduce poverty and promote human rights. It works in partnership with the BBC World Service
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...
and other local media and development partners in over forty developing and transitional countries around the world.
Recognition
In 2010 the BBC World Service Trust won a Tech Award for developing a mobile phone service for teaching English to people in Bangladesh. The same project, BBC Janala, also received a GSMA Award for education technology at the Mobile World Congress in February 2011.In 2011 there was controversy in America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
over the American government's discussion of funding the BBC World Service Trust to combat censorship in China
Censorship in China
"Censorship in China" can refer to:*Censorship in the People's Republic of China*Censorship in the Republic of China, mainly in Taiwan province after 1949...
and censorship in Iran
Censorship in Iran
Censorship in Iran is the limiting or suppressing of the publishing, dissemination, and viewing of certain information in the Islamic Republic of Iran...
.