उत्तर गुजरात के साबरकांठा जिले में 28 सितम्बर को नवजात बच्ची से बर्बर तरीके से बलात्कारकरने वाले शख्स के बहाने यूपी, बिहार, राजस्थान और यहां...
Indian garment workers take to the airwaves to demand better conditions by Arundhati Nagaraj
Three radio stations set up across Tamil Nadu over the last year attract more than 200 callers per day and have quickly become a huge...
Bharat on speed dial by Sibi Arasu and Rashmi Pratap
This article on The Hindu Business Line discusses initiatives including Mobile Vaani as using ‘basic mobile phones [to make] all the difference between hardship and...
What happens when India’s poor access a social network? by Dennis Price
This article by Dennis Price describes Mobile Vaani’s work as helping ‘India’s poor [find] a voice—or more accurately, a media platform to share it’. Original...
Idea #2 — The right way to bring users online: Hybrid IVR and mobile apps for data migration
Rocket Post is a telling example of India’s jugaad culture: over 11,000 people are subscribed to this news service in Uttar Pradesh that delivers hyper-local news on WhatsApp....
Holding up half the sky: Elected Women Representatives in Jharkhand
“There was much I didn’t know when I was within the four walls of my house,” said Manju Devi from Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand, an elected...
State Spotlight: Jharkhand
Listen to some interesting opinions from the series here
Demonetisation: 100 days on, are we ready to go cashless?
Over time, the purported agenda for demonetisation shifted from capturing black money to putting India on a firm road towards cashless, accounted-for transactions.
Idea #1 – The Right Way to Go Cashless: Exploring ICT-enhanced Value Chains in Rural India
The demonetisation move may have been announced to herald the cashless era – indeed, the volume of electronic transactions increased 43 per cent from November...
