قصة التأسيس: نود السماع عن اللحظة التي حققت فيها ما تصبو إليه. شارك قصة المكان والزمان الذي رأي فيه المؤسسون القدرات الكامنة في هذا الحل والتي تؤهله لتغيير العالم.
Shu Choudhary was researching a book in the conflict regions of Central India (Chhattisgarh/Andhra Pradesh/Orissa). While talking to Maoists, tribals and the mainstream population, Shubhranshu realized that the conflict was less because of politics and more because of a gap in communication between people.
Looking for ways to open communication channels, he first explored Community Radio, but realized that restrictive regulations prevented it from being a viable tool for conflict resolution. TV was ruled out, since much of this region barely has electricity. Shu first explored the Internet as an option and started CGNet, an email discussion group that has over 2000 members today. However, this still represented only the areas with Internet penetration. The question was how to get the people not on internet to join the conversation. Shu noticed that even people in the deep interiors carried mobile phones and found ways to use them. On his return to the city, he began talking to technologists about designing a mobile solution. Bill Thies at Microsoft Research and his academic colleagues at MIT stepped up to the task, designed the initial platform and helped Shu set up the pilot.
حدد كلاً من عمق التأثير الاجتماعي للحل وحجمه إلى اليوم.
Since Feb 2010, we have received 58,000+ calls from 7,000+ unique phone numbers and have published about 900 reports. 71% of our calls are from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, 11% from Jharkhand and Bihar, the rest from Rajasthan, Delhi etc.
Many of these reports have been picked up by the national and international press, some with credit. Moreover, our follow-up network has been proven capable of tracking stories about one individual or issue by multiple sources. E.g. the case of Mr. Pitbasu Bhoi, a labourer who was not paid by the MNREGA scheme was reported by two independent journalists and later picked up by mainstream media
Swara has also helped empower our citizen journalists, by providing training, support and exposure to mainstream media.
We have also carried out training programmes for citizen journalists and moderators, the last one in collaboration with the Indian Ministry of Culture’s Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti.
ما هو التأثير المخطط له في المستقبل خلال 1-5 سنوات؟ هل فكرتك قابلة لإعادة التنفيذ؟ إذا كان الأمر كذلك، فكيف؟
Over the next 5 years we envision connecting communities across the country using a network of phone and web accessible audio channels, allowing users to create and access audio content from their cellphones, creating a “voice-web”. To this end we plan to develop an open technology platform that can be leveraged by communities everywhere to build their own applications and manage their own content.
We also plan to develop a partnership and training program to get communities started with the platform and how to use it to spark and sustain follow up action on issues raised by the community.
تقدم المشاركات الفائزة خطة قوية عن الطريقة التي سيحققون بها النمو ويضعون بصمتهم عليه. حدد المرحلة المنشودة على مدار ستة أشهر لإنماء تأثيرك.
Expand reach by starting 3 regional chanels with training for users and moderators in partnership with like-minded organizations
والآن فكر بتوسع أكبر! حدد مرحلة التأثير على مدار 12 شهرًا.
Design & standardize technology/proceses that comunities can use to conect to a netwrk of linkd voice chanels that share content
