The Youth Internet Radio Network Project will connect young people across Queensland, through the use of new media technologies, and allow them to learn skills of relevance to new employment needs while also providing them with an interactive distribution platform for their creative content.

The Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre (CIRAC) located at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) secured an Australian Research Council grant to establish the Youth Internet Radio Network (YIRN). The YIRN project commenced in 2004. A streaming website is currently being developed with youth input and will be launched early in 2005. As part of the project, groups of young people across Queensland are being trained in how to produce content for the site – audio (music, speech and so on), text (stories, reports, journals) and visuals (photographs, artworks).

Through the network and the website young people will be provided with a distribution platform for their locally created content. In addition, the network will allow groups of young people to interact with each other and with others (including Government) on the topics and issues that are relevant to them – through forums, messaging services, message boards and emails. Please use the menu above to find out more about this project, and please join in the discussion in the Forum.

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Last updated: 1 February, 2005