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.

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.

In the pursuit of ‘Khushaal Zindagi’- Journey of villagers from being Beneficiary to Researcher

The discussion on the imagination of ‘Khushaal zindagi’ (Good Life) brought different age and sex groups to talk to each other.

The Ecosystem of Learning

Reimagining an Earth-centric and child-centric education

Radio aids revival of dying tribal language

Started in Jan. 2020 the pre-recorded radio programmes have so far been aired on 16 different occasions

Rice Tea to Millet Momos: This Woman Is Reviving India’s Tribal Culinary Gems

"We decided to give Momos a healthy twist by using madua or finger millet to make them, in place of maida or flour. "