Pattanaik, Debashis (author) and Sarkar, Runa (author)
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Article
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
India
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29017
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Posted at http://www.crisscrossed.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/1/the-participatory-web.pdf, Pages 20-25 in Annamarie Matthess and Christian Kreutz, Participatory web - new potentials of ICT in rural areas, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische, Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. 41 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29028
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Posted on http://www.youtube.com > Search on "p. sainath", Via You Tube, Features the thoughts of an award-winning journalist in India, P. Sainath Palagummi Sainath, about what he identifies as serious gaps in mass media coverage. He observes that due to the advertiser-driven environment for media organizations, national media are not interested in serving the information needs of rural residents and the poor, generally. National media do not have "rural" or "poverty" beats, he explains, although residents in those categories make up the majority of the population in India. He urges media to signal the weaknesses in society as well as the areas of progress.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29029
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Posted at http://www.youtube.com > Search on "zooming zestfully", Via You Tube., A freelance photographer in India permits two journalism students to document him doing photography in rural India. He emphasizes the importance of emphasizing the human side of life. He takes no picture without people. Viewers see some of the photos he takes, as well as his techniques in getting them.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29337
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Presented at the LIFT conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in our society, Geneva, Switzerland, February 2007., Video of the presentation (21 minutes) describes a "hole in the wall" experiment in which a computer with an internet connection is put into a community with no instruction. Children learn through use of the internet. This file also contains a report explaining that the award-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire, was inspired by the hole-in-the-wall project. File also identifies related web sites such as: www.hole-in-the-wall.com
