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New friends from MakeSense
Two young guys from France, Christian and Romain, visited us a few days back. They are starting an organization, MakeSense, to link people for social businesses. And so they are currently touring and visiting all sorts of social entrepreneurial organization in Africa and Asia. Here’s what they said about us:
“Three guys in a little room [...]
IT for broadening education in India
Yesterday was a very interesting day. The President of Germany, Horst Kohler, and the Indian Minister of Science and Technology, Prithviraj Chavan, inaugurated the Indo-German Max Plank Center on Computer Science at IIT Delhi. The Center has been set up with the goal of deepening a research collaboration between Indian and German computer scientists. The [...]
Read More..>>Steady Driving for Community Radio
It has been quite a while since we wrote updates, but a lot has been going on. For one, we were winners in the Indian national Manthan Awards for 2009 for technological innovation for development! Then we did a second release of our broadcast system for community radio integrated with telephony, and deployed it [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>Job openings at Gram Vaani
We are looking for software engineers and technical support staff to join our team, people well versed in computer networks, java, perl, python, and shell scripting. Please take a look at the detailed job descriptions and send us your CV:
http://gramvaani.org/get-involved/job-openings/
Gram Vaani elevator pitch
The ETNow business channel is running a feature called “Starting Up” where they focus on startup companies and get feedback from different VCs. They covered Gram Vaani last week and took our pitch to Sanjeev Agarwal of Helion Ventures. Not too bad! Thanks Charitra and team for the fabulous effort!
Read More..>>About Gram Vaani, in brief: A video
Thanks to Shabana, we now have a short video that summarizes the vision and technology of Gram Vaani. We will shortly put out more videos from our pilots, and various video tutorials.
Read More..>>Using GRINS to Improve Technology and Processes at Community Radio Stations
[pdf] link to detailed report.
Radio Bundelkhand, one of the early community radio stations in India, started live transmission in October 2008. We visited the station in February 2009 as a part of Community Radio India Forum annual body meeting. During this visit we initiated talks of piloting the radio automation system being developed by us. [...]
GRINS piloted at Radio Bundelkhand
Gram Vaani successfully launched its first pilot a few days back with Radio Bundelkhand! Radio Bundelkhand is a community radio station operating in the small town of Orchha in Madhya Pradesh (India), and was the first community driven CR station to start broadcasting after the new policy. It is being run by Development [...]
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