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Creative Activism - Voices of Young Change Makers in India (UDAAN)
- January 19, 2014
This post is a short account of what happened at UDAAN in December 2013 — a conference that gathered 100 youth from across the country to discuss pressing environmental issues and creative strategies to tackle them. We conducted a survey to map the perspectives of these young change-makers and get a glimpse of how India's youth is now framing and going about making 'change'
Read more →Information Design - Visualizing Action (TTC)
- December 26, 2013
This is the second part of the Making Change analysis on information activism. It explores the role of the presentation and design of information to translate information into action.
Read more →Information Activism - Tactics for Empowerment (TTC)
- December 24, 2013
This is the first of a two-part analysis of information activism for the Making Change project. This post looks at the benefits and limitations of increasing access to information to enable citizenship and political participation.
Read more →Digital Native
- January 06, 2014
The end of the year is supposed to be a happy, feel-good space for families, friends, societies and communities to come together and count our blessings. It is the time to look at things that have gone by and look forward to what the New Year will bring.
Read more →Methods for Social Change
- November 30, 2013
On this brief introduction, I outline the main targets of my research project for CIS and the HIVOS Knowledge Program. As a response to the thought piece ‘Whose Change is it Anyway’ I will explore civic engagement among middle class youth over the course of the next 9 months by interviewing change makers and collectives that are part of multi-stakeholder projects in Bangalore.
Read more →Public Art, Technology and Citizenship - Blank Noise Project
- November 30, 2013
Jasmeen Patheja speaks about the active citizen in the digital age, its challenges in the public and private spheres and interdisciplinary methods to overcome them.
Read more →Digitally Enhanced Civil Resistance
- November 20, 2013
This reflection looks at how civil disobedience unfolds in network societies. It explores the origins of nonviolence, describes digital and non-digital tactics of non-violent protest and participation and finally comments on the possibilities of this form of civil resistance to foster individual and collective civic engagement.
Read more →October 2013 Bulletin
- November 20, 2013
Our newsletter for the month of October 2013 can be accessed below.
Read more →September 2013 Bulletin
- October 24, 2013
Our newsletter for the month of September 2013 can be accessed below.
Read more →Bangalore + Sustainability Summit
- September 27, 2013
The power of technology to create youth engagement and positive social change were discussed at the Bangalore + Sustainability Summit on September 21, 2013 at the Centre for Internet and Society(CIS) , Bangalore. The event, in conjunction with the Social Good Summit that took place in New York during the same weekend, explored creative and tech-based avenues to solve sustainability challenges and promote social good.
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