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.
The Field of Learning
Children and young people have extraordinary agency, intelligence, and the capacity to relentlessly question.
Traversing Climate Change
The relationship between the herd and the shepherd is one of mutual dependency; the herd is the herders' family.
Telling Stories, Creating Change
For Uttarakhand youth - a platform to engage mountain communities in ecological conservation
D Litt degrees conferred upon Devaji Tofa & Sunil Deshpande
Long overdue recognition for practitioners of traditional knowledge and alternative learning models.
Ten years of efloraofindia
One of the biggest non-commercial citizen science efforts in the world.
Kolkata Has The World’s First Tram Library
Passes by 30 educational institutions; book launches, book reading sessions and literature festivals are on the cards
Corporate competition and Covid-19: Faizabad’s Hindi newspaper ‘Jan Morcha’ is fighting both
“We may make mistakes but we don’t do deals and suppress news,” he said.
उत्तराखंड की आवाज है हेंवलवाणी (in Hindi)
स्थानीय भाषा गढ़वाली में हेंवलवाणी सामुदायिक रेडियो के कार्यक्रम होते हैं, जिनका मुख्य जोर स्थानीय जरूरतें व समुदाय से जुड़े मुद्दे हैं
Conserving The Future
To help in wildlife conservation of a delicate, high altitude ecosystem in one of the least populated districts of the country.