Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2025 Nominee

AMEN FM RADIO


for enhancing communication with community

Description

The TV and Radio Project of Public Security Directorate is a continuation to a process of developing a security and pioneer media contributes to elevating security, criminal, and traffic awareness, as well as, to cultivate local audience to know their rights and duties. It is a continued project started the first specialized radio in mass media among the Middle East in 2007. This radio committed to broadcast awareness and cultivation messages in all fields, and to contribute in dealing with all citizens’ notes and inquiries and reply to them in a record time.
Modernization phase started upon establishing a Facebook page in 2009, which has become the first official documented page with a number of followers exceeded 3.5 million. The PSD Radio did not only limit itself to local audio broadcasting, but also entered satellite broadcasting field, and the first security media channel (TV SLIDE) was established in 2016 to broadcast security awareness slides alongside live broadcasting from radio studios in Public Security Directorate.
Today, radio ambitions have raisin when it started operating an integrated TV studio in 2023 to host specialized figures and experts in security and social fields, and broadcasts a field reports with linking it with its popular official pages on Social Media, which contributed in promoting advertising campaigns, which serve citizens, residents, and local community in health, traffic, and environmental fields, human rights, achieve justice and equality alongside highlights family and juvenile affairs.
To boost the field broadcasting, fast transfer of news, and interaction with occasions as well as security and social events, coordination on a new project is taking place to find donors for operating external broadcasting unit (OB), to ensure coverage access to all areas.

Project website

https://www.facebook.com/radio.amenfm89.5/?locale=ar_AR


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C9. Media 2025
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 2: Zero hunger
  • Goal 5: Gender equality
  • Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
  • Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Coverage
  • Jordan

Status

Completed

Start date

2019

End date

2024


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Older persons
  • Women
  • Indigenous and nomadic peoples
  • Refugees and internally displaced people
  • tourists and investors

WSIS values promotion

The Project contributes in promoting information society values in various and several ways, it is essential to spread awareness and knowledge refers to various societal and security cases and technological updates, which contributes in elevating awareness level to the audience and empowers them for an effective participating in real and digital community, as well as, it boosts a dialogue and interaction through an open platform among different community segments to contribute in ideas and opinions exchange, bringing points of view closer together, and raising the spirit of citizenship. Essentially, significant of this project lies in supporting sustainable development, through which it contributes numerously in boosting the sustainable development through spreading awareness regarding environment maintaining importance, and encouraging sustainable attitudes adoption, and highlights projects and initiatives which contribute in in achieving sustainable development goals. This project provides a real interactive platform to combat rumors and false news through presenting reliable and updating pieces of information, as well as, raising the awareness of listeners and followers through social media in which how they could verify information accuracy before they share it. The project works to promote cultural diversity through presenting various programs which reflect the cultural diversity of community, and encourages respect and tolerance among different cultures. The project uses digital technology to enhance radio programs and expands coverage range, and upon its success, it depends on building strong partnerships to boosts radio programs impact.


Entity name

department of media and comunity policing (DMCP)

Entity country—type

Jordan Government

Entity website

https://www.amenfm.jo/