Knowledge and Media

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.

Knowledge & Media: Books, Reports & Newsletters

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Knowledge & Media: Visual & Audio

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From the Economics of Happiness conference

"Vikalp Sangam bahut achchha idea hai, iske saath Sankalp bhi jod deejiye"/ "Alternatives Confluence is a great idea, add Commitment to it"

Torch bearers for millet seed security

While agriculture in other parts of the country was in doldrums, the sangham farmers were completely self-reliant re. food, seeds and farming.

The new jungle drums

A unique cell phone-based networking system in Chhattisgarh helps Adivasi Gonds share local news and air grievances.

Mobile Vaani – Community Radio in Jharkhand

Nearly 100,000 villagers in the remotest hamlets of Jharkhand connect every day to Jharkhand Mobile Vaani, a unique voice-based social platform where they can discuss issues regarding health, unemployment and education without fear and be reasonably confident of receiving a reply from the concerned authorities

The unlikely radio stars of an Indian village

A forerunner of local community radio, it is the sole people’s broadcast initiative in Manipur. It offers news that the local community needs, and connects it to the rest of the country and state. They now hear the news from all sides

Healing a Tradition

A low-tech online network connects traditional healers and patients in Bhopal

Consumer Complaints through Community Radio in Mewat, Haryana

Mewat in Haryana got India's first community radio based consumer helpline. The listeners can call the radio's helpline number and leave a message, talk to a radio reporter or even come on live with their complaint. Over five lakh people will be able to take advantage of the helpline.