DB Click: South Asia - September 2002

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

DB Click: SOUTH ASIA September 2002

This communication from The Communication Initiative is for people
working in SOUTH ASIA using communication strategies for development.
DB CLICK: SOUTH ASIA will update you on recent communication for
development initiatives in this region, including programme
activities, awards, training, evaluation and research results,
journalist networks, recent books and other materials, planning
ideas, change theories and other information recently placed on The
Communication Initiative web site.

DB CLICK: SOUTH ASIA complements the general service provide by The
Drum Beat though a specific focus on SOUTH ASIA. On items of interest
to you, please contact the relevant people and engage in the dialogue
and sharing that will support your work. DB CLICK: SOUTH ASIA will be
distributed once per month.

We have developed and launched the SOUTH ASIA window which places all
SOUTH ASIA relevant material within one section of the site. Please
access this through http://www.comminit.com/south-asia

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1. Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices - India

Praxis, a locally-based non-profit NGO, seeks to effect change in
communities throughout India by focusing on democracy at a grassroots
level. The programme seeks to empower communities by conducting both
research and training that involves asking community members to
identify and address their own problems.
http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv72002/sld-5281.html

2. Computer Room - Nepal, Vietnam, & Cambodia

Room to Read launched Computer Room in May, 2002 to provide the
necessary funds to wire impoverished classrooms in rural Asia. 11
classrooms in Nepal and Vietnam are the first recipients of grants
under the programme. The goal of the programme is to close the
digital divide and increase computer literacy in developing nations
in South, South East, and East Asia.
http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv72002/sld-5234.html

3. Everybody Loves a Good Drought - stories from India's poorest
districts

The author, P. Sainath, spent years in the poorest districts in
India, attempting to understand how people with absolutely nothing by
way of resources manage to eke out a living...
http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-2764.html

4. Kalyani Television & Club Campaign - India

Doordarshan, the national broadcaster of Prasar Bharati (the
Broadcasting Corporation of India) has launched a 1-year campaign to
create awareness of diseases like tuberculosis (TB), cancer,
HIV/AIDS, malaria, iodine deficiency, and tobacco-related and water-
borne diseases. http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv72002/sld-5205.html

5. n-Logue Village Internet Kiosks - India

corDECT/WLL/n-Logue (n-Logue) is a national Internet Service Provider
(ISP) whose mission to provide services only in the small towns and
rural areas of India. n-Logue partners with a local entrepreneur, who
becomes a franchisee (or Local Service Partner, LSP) in the 2000-
square-kilometre area in which the company wishes to operate. n-Logue
works with the franchisse to set up the network infrastructure and
provide connectivity, training, support, and linkages to relevant
internet-based services. http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv72002/sld-
5206.html

6. View from Bangladesh: The New Literacy - How communications
technology will bridge the Divide

"The definition of literacy changed in the last decade of the 20th
century. This new concept of "computer literacy" is an essential tool
in everyday modern life. A highly qualified individual -- even one
with a doctorate degree -- without the basic knowledge of computers
would likely be considered as computer illiterate! A simple, yet
elegant way to define computer literacy is "the ability to achieve
desired outcomes via a computer..."
http://www.comminit.com/ctrends2002/sld-5201.html

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7. Social Capital in Pakistan - Special Issue of the NGORC Journal

Social capital refers to those stocks of social trust, norms, and
networks - such as neighbourhood associations and sports clubs...
http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-5478.html

8. Bhoomi (Land) - Karnataka, India

This e-governance programme consists in the computerisation of 20
million records of 6.7 million land owners in 176 taluks (farming
communities) in Karnataka. Any farmer in the state can obtain a copy
of the Record of Rights, Tenancy and Crops (RTC), a critical document
of ownership required to secure bank loans, for a user charge of
Rs.15. http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv82002/sld-5483.html

9. Policy Advocacy Plan for Community Radio In Bangladesh

Radio is a powerful media in Bangladesh. It can reach people who live
in areas with no phones and no electricity. Radio reaches people who
can't read or write... http://www.comminit.com/st2002/sld-5482.html

10. From Dakar to Dhaka; Connecting Communities Radio Programme -
Senegal & Bangladesh

The BBC World Service Trust and the Department for International
Development (DFID) are currently working on a radio project to
address the issues of information communication technology (ICT) and
poverty reduction - particularly focusing on Senegal and Bangladesh.
The outcomes of the project will be three radio series (in French,
Bengali, and English), a video, and a website.
http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv82002/sld-5880.html

11. The Images in Social Change Network (Jandarshan) - Europe & India

In 2001, the Images in Social Change Network, known in India as
Jandarshan, or the People's Vision, completed a project whose broad
purpose was to develop the use of video as a means of exploring and
communicating experiences of social change. Now continuing on a more
informal basis, the network that this project helped develop consists
of organisations working in educational media, community media, and
visual anthropology. http://www.comminit.com/pds5-2001/sld-1883.html

12. "My Health: My Asset and My Right" - The Self Employed Women’s
Association - Gujarat, India

The Self-Employed Woman’s Association (SEWA) seeks to improve the
health of women workers in the unorganized sector. Using the
association’s funds, SEWA has developed a comprehensive health plan
that links economic empowerment, organising and holistic health
promotion. http://www.comminit.com/pds9-00/sld-1348.html

13. Impact Data - A Case Study of the Self Employed Women’s
Association - Gujarat, India

In 1998 SEWA’s services resulted in no maternal deaths reported, no
measles deaths in children, 92 % of women in districts reported
satisfaction with SEWA’s health services, 65 % reported savings due
to the low cost drug distribution system.
http://www.comminit.com/id10-14-00/sld-1785.html

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14. Street Theatre Project - India

This street theatre project for sexual health education is a
programme of the Naz Foundation located in New Delhi that was
established with the objective of developing a model which would
utilise mime, movement and the provision of advice and education.
http://www.comminit.com/pds07-11-99/sld-817.html

15.  Himalayan Light Foundation (HLF) - Nepal

The Himalayan Light Foundation (HLF) is a non-profit, non-
governmental organisation (NGO) based in Nepal. HLF's main objective
is to improve the quality of the life of the remote population of the
Himalayan region via the introduction and use of environmentally
friendly energy technologies. http://www.comminit.com/pds9-2001/sld-
3008.html

16. News - Computer Networking In Bhutan's Rural Districts

August 6 2002 Benton Communication Related Headlines. Bhutan is
establishing an information network to bridge the digital divide
among and within its administrative districts...
http://www.comminit.com/CommforDevNews/sld-5834.html

17. Village Computer & Internet Programme (VCIP) - Bangladesh

The Village Computer and Internet Programme (VCIP) is part of the
Grameen Communication (GC) effort to provide Bangladesh citizens in
rural areas with training in, and access to, information technology.
http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv32002/sld-4314.html

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18. Eyi Medh Eyi Roudro - Bangladesh

With the message "Come with your family for health care," this
television series was developed to create more interest in and
awareness about health and family planning services. The aim of Eyi
Medh Eyi Roudro ("Now Cloud, Now Sunshine") was to encourage
Bangladesh people to take advantage of available health services...
http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv22002/sld-4265.html

19.  A Tribe of His Own: The Journalism of P. Sainath - a film by Joe
Moulins.

This documentary film looks at the work of Sainath, author of the
1997 book ("Everyone Loves a Good Drought").
http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-4413.html

20. Impact Data - Involving People with HIV in NGOs - Burkina Faso,
Zambia, Ecuador, India

Does involving HIV-positive people in the planning and delivery of
non-governmental HIV services improve the quality of both the
services provided and the lives of the HIV-positive people who offer
their time, energy, and experience?
http://www.comminit.com/idkdv2002/sld-5366.html

21. Asian Media Information & Communication Centre - Asia-Pacific
Region

Established in 1971 with the support of the Government of Singapore
and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, AMIC is a centre actively engaged in
communication documentation, research, training, publishing and press
development in the Asia-Pacific region.
http://www.comminit.com/pdsaug/sld-1027.html

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