Archive for the 'Growth strategies' Category
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..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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..>>Community news as a livelihood for the world’s poorest
This is a piece by Jessica Mayberry, founding director of Video Volunteers. It originally appeared on Idealabs, and is being cross posted here.
Can a Community Producer like Samata, from a slum in Mumbai, ever become fully competitive in a mainstream market?
In thinking about Video Volunteers’ future work, I’m realizing we need to develop new [...]
Read More..>>The community radio movement in India
India has been quite a latecomer to this promising channel of people empowerment through community media. Until late 2006, only educational institutions were allowed to set up campus radio stations having a transmission range of 10-15km. The scope was only recently expanded to also include non-profit agencies, agricultural research institutes, and schools, to set up [...]
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 [...]
Vox populi, vox Dei
Gram-Vaani is a novel concept, kudos to the Aaditeshwar and the team for coming up with this innovative project! We are now talking of a world in which every village is connected to the information highway using cheap computers as radio transmitters. So villagers would have access to news and views from all over [...]
Read More..>>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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