Project Name: Government Initiatives to Set up RTI Filing Centres at Post Offices Initiated by: Postal Dept. of India Indian citizens living in abroad have been facing the issue of fee payment of filing RTI application from quite a long-time. In 2008, RTI activist and ex-serviceman Commodore Lokesh Batra initiated a campaign to streamline the RTI…
Project Name: Koshish Initiated by: TISS TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) initiated the project ‘KOSHISH’ to reach out to homeless and destitute children in Mumbai, India to provide social inclusion through ICT. Koshish identifies the government departments like Police, Department of Law and Judiciary, etc., responsible for rehabilitation of these under underprivileged community to…
Project Name: Economic Empowerment for Minority Muslims in India through ICT Initiated by: Datamation Foundation The project is undertaken by Datamation Foundation with support from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In March 2003, Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) was established in Babul-uloom-Madarasa which is located in Seelampur- Zaffrabad in the outskirts of North-East Delhi.…
Project Name: Ujjas Innovation Initiated by: National Foundation of India The National Foundation of India, a non-profit foundation in India initially offered the village women from the Western state of Gujarat’s underdeveloped region called Kutch to bring out their own newsletter called Ujjas (which means the ‘LIGHT’) with the help of Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS),…
Project Name: Citizen journalism & Human Rights in North-East India Promoted by WACC Initiated by: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), an international organization that promotes communication as a basic human right, essential to people’s dignity and community. WACC works with all those denied the right to communicate because of…
Project Name: Bhopal Net Bhopal Net is action group that fights for the victims of the Bhopal Gas accident. The group uses internet as a medium to fight for the human rights of victims who have been affected in the Bhopal gas tragedy, which was considered one of the world’s worst industrial catastrophes. Following the disaster,the Government of…
Project Name: The Pink Chaddi Campaign Initiated by: Alternative Law Forum (ALF) The Pink Chaddi (or Pink Underwear Campaign) is the first kind of online nonviolent protest movement that started through social networking campaigning in 2009. The movement launched in India in response to notable incidences of violent conservative and rightwing activism against perceived violations…
The period 2014-19 is set to witness a transition in political governance in India’s democratic landscape. A new transformation in wider governance areas and intervention, with new ideas, vision and milestones, is discernable. The country’s digital landscape for its billion plus population is set to build upon existing strengths and learning over the past decade…
The India media is the subject of the news yet again. This time though, the private news channels — the usual suspects – are only reporting the news. Instead, the latest war of words among politicians has thrown the public service broadcaster, Doordarshan, into the limelight. Narendra Modi, prime ministerial candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
A friend recently blogged about the Indian elections and wrote in his post about a tweet from the Aam Admi Party’s Somnath Bharti, in frustration as he wasn’t able to upload a video of his party workers being beaten up in Amethi, that he would have done so if the broadband would have been better.…