Right to Know - India's Internet Avant-Garde
By Andrew Garton
Right to Know is presented and produced by Andrew Garton and has been adapted from his book Right to Know: India's Internet Avant-garde published by the Digital Empowerment Foundation and the Australia India Institute.
Commissioned by the Association for Progressive Communications.
Right to Know - India's Internet Avant-GardeJun 03, 2019
Right to Know - Episode 4 - Digital literacy and the perils of social activism in India
We discover the perils of social activism in India and whether learning how to use Microsoft Notepad and Paint is digital literacy.
Presented and produced by Andrew Garton Right to know is adapted from the book Right to Know - India's Internet Avantgarde [PDF].
Right to Know - Episode 3 - The unheard will not remain unseen
We visit the ancient city of Chanderi home to four and a half-thousand weavers, we are inundated with terrifically bad smells and we find a pirate radio broadcaster living a few hours drive from where the Buddha had first meditated.
Presented and produced by Andrew Garton Right to know is adapted from the book Right to Know - India's Internet Avantgarde [PDF].
Right to Know - Episode 2 - Reaching the unreachable
We travel to the Indo-Nepalese border and listen in on two public meetings where some people discover, for the first time, just what a pension is and a building we are filming in is struck by lightning.
Presented and produced by Andrew Garton Right to know is adapted from the book Right to Know - India's Internet Avantgarde [PDF].
Right to Know - Episode 1 - Into the Media Dark
We discover what the United Nations Development Program means by India's media dark, we find a broadband wireless tower made entirely from junk and children from different castes sing together on a video conferencing platform in Rajasthan.
Presented and produced by Andrew Garton Right to know is adapted from the book Right to Know - India's Internet Avantgarde [PDF].