Knowledge and Media
Knowledge and media as empowering and enabling tools for equity and sustainability
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Knowledge and media as empowering and enabling tools for equity and sustainability
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This section features stories of use of knowledge as an empowering and enabling tool for a more equitable and ecologically sustainable world. This includes: Initiatives that encourage cross-fertilisation between ideas, promotes information exchange and transcends boundaries between modern and traditional, formal and informal, and urban and rural spheres of knowledge; Initiatives that make information access free, or easier in places usually neglected, considered ‘remote’ or disconnected; Initiatives to make knowledge part of the ‘commons’ rather than a commodity, privately owned or controlled; Also initiatives that promote an alternative media that raises questions ignored or deliberately allowed to remain hidden in the mainstream media, and innovative use of media to communicate enabling information.
Regenerating the flow of life
An invitation to imagine a vision of South Asia that moves beyond political boundaries and towards biocultural regionalism, taking into account crucial natural, cultural, and economic flows.
Weaving traditions: how the women weavers of Adichilthotti sustain their craft
The initiative exemplifies the values of meaningful work and livelihoods for the women, as well as sustaining their close relationship with the forests surrounding them.
दस्तकारों की उम्मीद है खमीर (In Hindi)
खमीर ने पारंपरिक हस्तकलाओं के संरक्षण व संवर्धन के साथ आजीविका भी प्रदान की है, जिसमें निरंतर नवाचार भी किया जा रहा है
How This Kolkata School Is Teaching Kids To Save the Planet, Not Just Read About It
Beyond textbook learning, it focuses on practical initiatives like waste management, plastic reduction, and local conservation efforts, empowering students to drive positive change in their community.
മൗലികമായ പരിവർത്തനങ്ങളിലേക്ക് (In Malayalam)
സുസ്ഥിരതക്കും നീതിക്കും തുല്യതക്കും വേണ്ടിയുള്ള വികൽപ് സംഗം പ്രക്രിയ ഒരു ദശാബ്ദം പിന്നിടുമ്പോൾ.
Remembering Mohan Hirabai Hiralal
"Over decades of silent, patient and spirited work, Mohanji worked across the country on the lived experience of non-violence."
Three Inspirational Decades of Vanvadi
What began as an initiative in ecological restoration has grown into an inspiring, and yet evolving, learning centre, that offers a living example of how to live in harmony with nature.
Declaration on Traditional Governance Systems of India (In English and Hindi)
"We commit to sustaining or reviving our community knowledge systems, while exploring and absorbing elements from other knowledge systems that will benefit us, and exploring educational systems that build on our knowledge, culture and language."
Interfaith Approaches to Global Crises
The meeting was organized to kickstart a network or think-tank of individuals who are committed to peace and social justice.