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24.01.2022 The podcast, Right to Know, produced and presented filmmaker Andrew Garton, is now available on all popular podcast platforms. If you're interested in the history of the internet, it's emergence in rural India then this podcast is for you. It's four episodes long featuring a mix of interviews in Hindi with original music and field recordings. Episode one - Into the Media Dark is now online https://anchor.fm//Right-to-Know---Episode-1---In/a-aeo2er
19.01.2022 We are inviting you to watch our new web series shot in rural India. These are stories about the transformation taking place among women, children, and men from oral cultures who have found opportunity and access to critical information on the internet. This is an observational series compiled as we were completing Ocean in a Drop. India's Rural Internet Avantgarde https://vimeo.com/album/4602868... This series was produced with the support of the Digital Empowerment Foundation.
14.01.2022 Raghav and Kiran - An illiterate but self-taught radio technician accidentally turned a wireless microphone into a transmitter. He began a pirate radio station in his village in Mansoorpur, India. Kiran had a university education and learned how to build solar panels and the circuits to power them. She fell in love with the barefoot broadcaster. India's Internet Avant-garde - a digital ethnography film series, is written and produced by Andrew Garton with support from the Digital Empowerment Foundation. https://youtu.be/zKKQgBfSeWI
07.01.2022 Smart Village of Chandauli - In 2014 Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg visited the village of Chandauli. It was said to be the first digitally literate village in India. What does a digitally literate village look like and what do digitally literate villagers do there? India's Internet Avant-garde - a digital ethnography film series, is written and produced by Andrew Garton with support from the Digital Empowerment Foundation. https://youtu.be/TeigazH5Mjk
03.01.2022 A Challenge is a Joy - By August 2016 more than 170, Community Information Resource Centres were operating in 80 districts within 22 states in India. They provide Internet access where only radio has ever reached. Some of these centres are reaching beyond caste in spite of geographical and cultural challenges. India's Internet Avant-garde - a digital ethnography film series, is written and produced by Andrew Garton with support from the Digital Empowerment Foundation. https://youtu.be/ZIOwhlejdCU
