Archive for the 'Policy' Category

Agriculture and us

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I attended an Ashoka conference in New Delhi yesterday on rural innovation and farming. There were so many new things I realized about agriculture’s deep rooted connections with our culture and society and economy that I decided to immediately write about it before the memories weaken. Plus I watched Avatar later in the evening, which [...]

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IT for broadening education in India

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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 [...]

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The community radio movement in India

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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 [...]

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