http://gramvaani.org Empowering communities through participatory media Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:58:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two young guys from France, Christian and Romain, visited us a few days back. They are starting an organization, MakeSense, to link people for social businesses. And so they are currently touring and visiting all sorts of social entrepreneurial organization in Africa and Asia. Here's what they said about us: "Three ... http://gramvaani.org/2010/03/new-friends-from-makesense/ 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 ... http://gramvaani.org/2010/03/agriculture-and-us/ There was yet another hard-hitting column by Tavleen Singh in today's Indian Express, it's not about the budget. She says that if clamouring (over TV, newspapers, or placards held up in Jantar Mantar) is the way to get ourselves heard, then why don't we clamour about the biggest problems ... http://gramvaani.org/2010/02/media-and-governance/ With infrastructure severely damaged after the earthquake in Haiti, a radio show actually saves lives. This underscores the need for rapidly installable radio stations that can be set up in the middle of nowhere after a natural disaster. http://gramvaani.org/2010/02/radio-news-saves-lives-in-haiti/ 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 ... http://gramvaani.org/2010/02/it-for-broadening-education-in-india/ 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 ... http://gramvaani.org/2010/01/steady-driving-for-community-radio/ Another piece of good news, we won the Juror's Distinction Award in the 2009 Manthan Awards for technological innovation for development! Here's a coverage from Mint. We kind of knew from insider sources that we are winning something, but what did come as a surprise was that we won the ... http://gramvaani.org/2009/12/grins-wins-the-manthan-award/ We are very pleased to announce the second release of GRINS, our Knight funded project of low-cost systems for community radio stations in rural areas. This builds upon the v0.1 release we did in June by primarily adding support for telephony, backup, and log-shipping, plus smoothing out many user interface ... http://gramvaani.org/2009/12/grins-v02-is-now-out/ 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 ... http://gramvaani.org/2009/12/co-casting/ We are looking for software engineers and technical support staff to join our team, people well versed in computer networks, java, perl, python, and shell scripting. Please take a look at the detailed job descriptions and send us your CV: http://gramvaani.org/get-involved/job-openings/ http://gramvaani.org/2009/11/job-openings-at-gram-vaani/