Archive for December, 2009

GRINS wins the Manthan Award!

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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!

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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

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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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