October 21st, 2008
Top Five Resources: Social Media for Social Change in India
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(Cross-posted on my fellowship blog – How International Values Shape Communications Technologies)
Sometime back, I made a list of the top ten resources on social 2.0 or how to use social media for social change.
Here’s a follow-up list of the top five resources on social media for social change in the Indian context.
- ThinkChange India — started by Vinay Ganti and old friend Santhosh Ramdoss — aims to be “your primary source of information on social innovation and social entrepreneurship in India.”
- InfoChange India — managed by Centre for Communication and Development Studies — is “an online resource base that provides news, views, perspectives and debates on crucial issues of sustainable development and social justice in India and South Asia.”
- India Banao — started by the uber high profile trio of Sanjeev Sanyal, Jayant Sinha and Sheetal Talwar — is “a platform for young people to participate in public affairs.”
- Lead India 2020 aims to “lead Indian youth to lead India to lead the world by 2020.”
- Change India aims to “encourage all citizens to participate in nation building by working with the government to improve quality of life of the citizens.”
It’s a testimonial to the flattening power of social media that ThinkChange India, the least “professional” of these mostly institution backed initiatives, is my favorite resource on social change 2.0 in India.
Finally, as a bonus, here is a cool social change 2.0 startup I recently came across —
- Grassroutes — run by Sriram Varadarajan, Abhilash Ravishankar, Keerthikiran K, Shravya Reddy and Goutam Ullas Mahapatra — funds one week trips for young people to work with changemakers in local communities and document their experiences. Think of it as a grassroots version of the IndiCorps Fellowship.
If you know any innovative India social change 2.0 startups in India, do ping me.
