Archive for December, 2009

GRINS wins the Manthan Award!

Another piece of good news, we won the Juror’s Distinction Award in the 2009 Manthan Awards for technological innovation for development! Here’s a coverage from Mint. We kind of knew from insider sources that we are winning something, but what did come as a surprise was that we won the special distinction award. And what [...]

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GRINS v0.2 is now out!

We are very pleased to announce the second release of GRINS, our Knight funded project of low-cost systems for community radio stations in rural areas. This builds upon the v0.1 release we did in June by primarily adding support for telephony, backup, and log-shipping, plus smoothing out many user interface issues and bugs. Having a [...]

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Co-casting: An approach to enable participatory information systems in rural areas

Gram Vaani has developed a new concept called co-casting, short for community casting or contextual casting or cooperative casting — a new paradigm for communication in rural areas which is centered around specific communities that share a common informational interest. Co-casting is different from community radio broadcasting in the way it defines a community. Communities [...]

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