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.

PM sees in Chhattisgarh’s Radio Bultoo an example worth emulating for farmers

"Radio Bultoo", Chhattisgarh's version of disseminating information through bluetooth-enabled mobile phones in local languages, fascinated the PM

To beat the drought, women farmers of Anantapur have entered the millet revolution in Andhra

With government support, they are now falling back to their traditional farming practices for a better living.

Tamil Nadu farmers fight drought with organic farming

Traditional crops have medicinal value, are well-suited to the local soil conditions and can survive drought

Hyderabad’s Human Library

This ingenious project celebrates knowledge sharing and treats human beings as books, you can even borrow one for 20-30 minutes

अखबार की पगडंडी (in Hindi)

एक ऐसा अखबार जो सिर्फ सकारात्मक खबरें छापता है, बदलाव की कोशिश करता है

These Uttarakhand villages run their own Instagram channel

Young people from the villages of Munsiari block of Pithoragarh district upload photos and share stories — of their lives, forests, colours of seasons and mountains

इस गांव के लोग चलाते हैं अपना इंस्टाग्राम चैनल (in Hindi)

इंस्टाग्राम चैनल तथाकथिक शहरी और ग्रामीण लोगों के बीच पुल की तरह काम कर रहा है।

Nagaland’s docu-film bags first prize

“We want to show the people and the government about the importance of sustaining the cultivation of millets for maintaining agro-bio diversity,”

Twist of the Tongue

Using mobile phones and Bluetooth, the Pahadi Korbas of Chhattisgarh record and share songs of their community and rediscover a dying language.