Take on the trolls: Let’s reclaim our public spaces
Just like in a physical space, social media users should come together to protect other members of the community and reclaim our virtual public spaces
India’s untapped content producers
Unless we treat India’s large unconnected population as a pool of producers, we will not be able to achieve the results we dream in a Digital India.
Access and not availability is the need of the hour
Sabita Khalkho (35) is a mother of five children — Sakshi, Shashi, Beronika, Sajna and Sushmita — who spends most of the year in the absence of her husband who works outside Ranchi district at a brick kiln. Though he only visits his wife and children once every three months, his presence isn’t very helpful…
Bhutan on the path to Digital Renaissance
Bhutan is a small country nestled in the Himalayas with a population of little less than 8 lakhs. It is a unique constitutional monarchy. Democracy co-exists with monarchy in governance. The King retires at the age of 65 years, handing over the reins to the next generation. Bhutan is still very much rooted in tradition.…
Crowdsourcing is the future of film-making
Zafar Anjum Writer, publisher & film-maker Will crowdsourcing change the $2 trillion global entertainment industry? You bet. Here’s why. There are three important trends in the video content space that we should pay attention to: there has been an explosion in the creation and consumption of video content, the duration of video consumption is becoming…
eNGO introduces wide set of services for its network NGOs
In this new financial year, the eNGO programme, too, has a new range of services for non-government organisations across India. The network has already enabled more than 2,000 NGOs through validated online identities and digitally empowered more than 6,000 NGOs across South Asia. Now, it aims to cater to NGOs of all echelons with its…
One step closer
The Baank-e-Loom project in Uttar Pradesh went a step ahead last month towards launching its exclusive e-Commerce website and social media channels by carrying out a professional shoot of handloom products coming out of the cluster. Further, to upscale production and improve designs, designers from Jaipur visited the centre to interact with weavers. NIFT Mumbai…
Celebrating the spirit of women across the country
CIRCs across India celebrated Women’s Day with great gusto by engaging in various cultural programmes, meetings and discussions. CIRC Sonapur in Assam celebrated the day with participation of more than 20 women for an interactive discussion on March 8, 2017. The first session of the day revolved around ‘Women’s struggle for equality around the world’;…
Access to information for problem solving
The aim to digitally empower people in their communities, and beyond, means that our centre coordinators, trainers and sometimes even our beneficiaries have to continuously make people aware of how their needs and issues can be solved if they had access to the right information. Recently, the CIRC Halduchuar team — which included the coordinator,…
Two Austrians are sharing their expertise with the world
Austrian couple Melanie Fritzer and Phillip Benedikt are on a very interesting year-long journey across the world. They wish to travel from country to another, trading their professions for life’s basic needs, and “basically reintroduce the barter system”. Melanie is a social worker and Benedikt is a photographer film-maker. In this journey, India was their…