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.

A tie-up that can go a long way in crop cultivation

While farmers get an input assistance of ₹5,000 per acre, the consumers get the farm yield.

आदिवासियों की उम्मीद है आधारशिला (in Hindi)

यहां हाथ से काम करने, आसपास के परिवेश और समाज से सीखने पर जोर दिया जाता है

Organic farming gathers steam in the Sundarbans

The training at the Knowledge Centre is now modified to weave in local knowledge to make it rooted in ground realities.

Community radio as a phenomenon: Winning hertz

In today’s world of converged media, radio programmes have a greater reach than ever before as they are shared on social media sites.

This Indian student’s video on climate change won a global competition

Adarsh Prathap underlines the importance of mangroves and shows how their conservation can save thousands of lives

Tune in: What did Buddhist monks hear when they meditated in Goan caves in the 6th century?

“It is important to preserve this experience. Sound is just an alternate exploration of information and an experience...”

मालवा के कबीर से एक मुलाकात (In Hindi)

कबीर भजनों के साथ साथ बातचीत करना, चाय पीना, दोस्ती बढ़ाना और अपने दुख-दर्दों को आपस में बांटना और इन भजनों में इसके समाधान ढूंढ़ना, लोगों को इससे जोड़ता है।

Indigenous Peoples Day: Through the Lens of Women

Sensing the urgency to document traditional knowledge that elders possess, Chirhah has helped make films like ‘Millet-Securing livelihoods’

Amid fund crunch, CGNet Swara eyes shift to Bluetooth radio tech

Under the Digital India campaign, optical fibre cables are being laid at the village level. That makes it possible for “Bluetooth radio" to work.