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Apna Malak Ma Community Video Unit Field Visit: Aaditeshwar Seth’s field notes

 
/ October 6, 2010

Recently, our friend Aaditeshwar Seth of Gram Vaani Community Radio (and a fellow Knight News Challenge winner) spent a few days visiting Apna Malak Ma, the all-Dalit CVU in rural Surendranagar district of Gujarat set up by Navsarjan along with VV.     We thought his field notes captured well...

Bright "Ranis" and Kings of VV

 
/ June 9, 2010

– Taijrani “TJ” Rampersaud Being in VV and working here often reminds me of Guyana, my home. With citizens from or with roots in many places, such as Africa, China, Europe and India, Guyana is a country of great diversity. Growing up in such a diverse society had its dividends....

Exercises in community video entrepreneurship

 
/ December 12, 2009

– Jessica Mayberry My partner Stalin and I are seated in the video laboratory of VCU.br in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with VV’s nine Video Fellows. We’re conducting a workshop in an area that is new for us – and which appears to be new also for the whole field of...

Cycle of Empowerment: an Interview with Stalin K on community participation

 
/ September 17, 2009

Kanchan from Apnaa Malak Ma CVU, conducting research at a local school. VV’s videos are really all about encouraging audiences to step up to local challenges, whether they give the postal address of corrupt officials, show how you can access microcredit, or tell you your right to medical care. But...

Community News as a Livelihood for the World’s Poorest

 
/ March 7, 2009

Can a Community Producer like Samata, from a slum in Mumbai, ever become fully competitive in a mainstream market? In thinking about Video Volunteers’ future work, I’m realizing we need to develop new models of community video that are scalable and allow for video to be a livelihood for thousands...