Archive for the 'Gram-Vaani news' Category
GRINS v0.1 is now out!
GRINS stands for the Gramin Radio Inter Networking System, Gram Vaani’s broadcast platform for community radio stations. We are very happy to announce that the first release is now available! You can download and use it free of cost. An open-source release will also be available in just a few weeks.
GRINS is an enhanced automation [...]
Technological Design Decisions Behind the Radio Platform
This is a post more for the technology minded, but even others should find it interesting to get an inside view of what goes into designing appropriate technological systems in rural contexts that we are addressing. We’ve made many design decisions along the way, based on our prior experiences, foresight into expected problems, and observations [...]
Read More..>>A great start to the new year
Moving from ideas to execution is an ultra cool feeling. Gram Vaani is finally on the go and we are all extremely excited to see our dreams taking shape.
The garage startup mode
I always used to wonder what a Silicon Valley garage startup would feel like. Well, here’s what it looks like — a social entrepreneurial [...]
Multiplanar application design for community radio stations
I’ve been thinking hard on how to best implement the technology for community radio stations that Gram-Vaani will be supporting, and I had a eureka moment just two days back. Let me first give a background of the kind of use-cases we want to enable, and then describe the idea of how to do this.
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Read More..>>Marked locations of CR stations
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This shows the locations of only 18 CR stations listed in a sheet discussed in the Parliament in April, 2008. Please write to us about more CR stations and we will update the map with the details.
Gram-Vaani is a winner in the prestigious Knight News Challenge!
The announcement is finally public! Gram-Vaani is one of the 16 winners in the Knight News Challenge for 2008! This is a wonderful moment for all of us who were involved in the proposal writing and editing process. We submitted the first version of the proposal in August 2007, and after many many iterations and [...]
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