October 2009
How Can VV Grow Hybrid Businesses?
Jessica with Samvad CVU, 75% sustainable from outside projects. There’s an ongoing conversation, in the west at least, about the death of old media. Traditional journalism, magazines, book publishing houses, broadcasting stations, the corporate music industry – all are scrambling to find revenue as advertisement dries up and more and...
Mobile Phones and Community Empowerment
Image from Alamy via the Economist. Both the NY Times and the Economist reported last month that mobile phones are aiding development in fascinating new ways. Just to name a few: The Grameen Foundation‘s phone app helps rural Ugandan farmers track crop diseases before they spread, sending digital photos and...
‘Supermen of Malegaon’ – great community cinema in India, all for entertainment
Mahima Kaul is a journalist from Delhi who is working as Partnerships Director at VV. She was on hand at the August CVU Camp to conduct interviews and film the CV Camp Malegaon is a small town where a local film industry has grown, perhaps one of the most successful...
BBC Report on Citizen Journalism
Democracy or chaos? The BBC’s two-part radio series on citizen journalism asks if our new era of citizen reporting will deliver us a brighter future, or replace un-biased, fact-checked investigative reporting with inaccurate, unaccountable opinion. The reporter talks to bloggers and academics in the world’s most repressive countries, including Myanmar,...