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.
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.
Learning, Collaboration, and Sustainability in the Himalayan Landscapes
The gathering’s core objectives were to foster knowledge sharing, enhance collaboration, and promote ecological awareness and cultural exchange.
क्रांतिकारी परिवर्तनाच्या दिशेने: भारतामधल्या विकल्प संगम प्रक्रियेचे दशक (In Marathi)
आपल्याला प्रक्रिया जितकी लोकशाही, सहभागी, वैविध्यपूर्ण आणि उत्साहवर्धक करता येईल, तितकी, अपेक्षित उद्दिष्टांपैकी किमान काही उद्दिष्टे साध्य करण्याची, तसेच काही अनपेक्षित फायदे मिळण्याची शक्यताही जास्त.
मौलिक विकल्पों की राह (In Hindi)
विकल्प संगम पहल 'सामान्य' लोगों की नव प्रवर्तन, दृढ़ता, सहयोग और संकटों का समाधान खोजने की क्षमता का जश्न मनाने का प्रयास करती है। सार्थक भागीदारी की प्रक्रिया अपने आप में लोगों को सशक्त बनाती है।