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First prize in collaboration project!
Gram Vaani, together with Video Volunteers and CGNet won the first prize in an impromptu collaboration idea at the Knight conference in Boston. Mayank attended the conference on our behalf, and they managed to put together some kind of weird theatrics while speaking in different tongues and showing the photograph of an Indian 100 rupee [...]
Read More..>>GRINS now has streaming!
Thanks to Bala the genius, GRINS can now also do a live streaming on the Internet of whatever if being transmitted on air. Thus, people can now also listen to radio over the Internet. The normal mode of operation is for the station to stream to a public server, and advertise the mount point to [...]
Read More..>>Trip to Limbdi and Bhuj
I made a week long trip in July to Limbdi and Bhuj in Gujarat, to spend time with a Community Video Unit in Limbdi, and the Ujjas Radio team with Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan in Bhuj. Below are some extensive notes and a few pictures from the trip.
Limbdi CVU
Operated by a human rights group, Navsarjan, [...]
Read More..>>SMS and radio
Several pieces of our work and thoughts were covered in this very informative report by MobileActive. Given the growing proliferation of mobile phones all across the world, the combined medium of radio and cellphones can end up being a very powerful way to engage communities. SMS is very well on our list of GRINS enhancements [...]
Read More..>>Community radio manual
We have put together a very brief manual about community radio. It is essentially meant for people and organizations who want to understand the concept better, and to explain the different things they need to do to run a community radio station.
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