Archive for the 'News media' Category
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..>>Is a CNN for the base of the pyramid possible?
Jessica is the founder of Video Volunteers, an organization working to create a media industry at the base of the social pyramid by training local people to run their own “Community Video Units” in partnership with NGOs. Prior to that, Jessica worked at Court TV, the Fox News Channel and CNN. She is a fellow [...]
Read More..>>The role of media in adapting to climate change
This recent article in The Economist paints a very grim picture about the future of India and China in the wake of rapid climate change. Although the article is focused on reaching consensus for climate change policies at the international level, some of the facts presented are truly alarming and a grave cause of concern. [...]
Read More..>>World’s highest radio station to change the lives of Ladakh people
This news article shows the unique role radio can play in reaching communities that are not well connected to the rest of the world due to geographical constraints. It’s perched at a height of 11,800 ft above sea level! There is also a mention of a satellite uplink, possibly to link the radio station with [...]
Read More..>>$100 laptop redesign
The new laptop design for the one-laptop-per-child project is fabulous! They have removed the keyboard and replaced it by a touch screen. This turns into a touch sensitive keyboard during normal operation, and the laptop can be used as an e-book reader otherwise. And the price is $75, which sounds too good to be true.
I [...]
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 [...]
Read More..>>Khabar Laharia
This is a truly remarkable story! Khabar Lahariya is a rural newspaper run by women in Chitrakoot. It was started in 2002 pretty much as an experiment, but has since emerged as a symbol of women empowerment and democratic participation by the oft-neglected rural and tribal populations of India. They now boast a circulation across [...]
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