India
Civic Engagement
Indian English and Hindi dailies devote only 2 percent of their total coverage to rural issues, as they do not have the mechanism to be able to source stories from rural and marginalized areas. By building a pan-India network of professionally trained citizen video-correspondents, drawn from the poorest and marginalized communities, Jessica is creating the architecture necessary to ensure that the voices of the poor are heard in...
Singapore
Civic Engagement
Sasa Vucinic and the organization he co-founded are creating a new class of media entrepreneurs by providing affordable and targeted capital coupled with management and technological know-how. The capital and know-how, taken together, strengthen independent media, particularly in places where it is most challenged and under threat—in the developing world.
Pakistan
Civic Engagement
Shafqat Munir Ahmad has introduced the notion of social responsibility to journalists in Pakistan, in an effort to increase the amount of space devoted to pressing social concerns. He has established several research centers dedicated to democratic governance, women and children’s rights, environmental sustainability, and other social issues, and uses them to provide journalists with the information and training they need to proactively...
Indonesia
Civic Engagement
Amid the apathy that often plagues impoverished urban neighborhoods, Reggi Kayong Munggaran is organizing marginalized youth to serve as changemakers, spearheading the development of much-needed improvements in the physical and social infrastructures of the areas in which they reside. By engaging a broad spectrum of the residents of those communities in public discussions and “action squads” he is also helping community members join together...
Indonesia
Civic Engagement
Forum Adat Peduli Budaya
In much of eastern Indonesia, customary practices associated with weddings and funerals entail excessive expenditures and resulting indebtedness that gravely impedes much-needed investments in education and other development needs. Through a process of community dialogue, initially among his own ethnic group, John Ndolu has succeeded both in replacing those traditional practices with modestly scaled ceremonies and vastly reduced dowries and...
Indonesia
Civic Engagement
Corruption and poor stewardship have severely limited what reaches the poor in Indonesia. Erie Sudewo has revived the custom of giving, a religious duty in Islam known as zakat, by creating a conglomerate of intermediary institutions, both for-profit and not-for-profit, that are honest, trustworthy, effective, and innovative.
India
Civic Engagement
Ishita Chaudhry is ridding Indian society of the deeply held premise that youth should have little or no say in matters of policy or implementation of ideas that directly impact their lives. Ishita’s organization, The Youth Parliament Foundation (TYPF), strengthens youth-led movements in India by creating opportunities for them to engage with social change and transform an adult-dominated system to one where young people have the ability to...
Thailand
Civic Engagement
Chiranuch Premchaiporn has introduced a news and knowledge strategy that, by combining new media technologies with a flexible organization, ensures the free flow of information and exchange of diverse perspectives. Her online newspaper, Prachatai, is forging a more inclusive media environment, engaging tens of thousands of marginalized citizens and interest groups, at a moment when most of the Thailand’s media is moving in the opposite...
Indonesia
Civic Engagement
Donny B.U. is building the foundation for the responsible use of online media in Indonesia through Internet Sehat, forging a nation of fully information citizens and subtly preempting the possibility of new government limits to the freedom of expression.
Indonesia
Civic Engagement
Muchlis L. Usman is serving the public’s need for quality information and engagement with the local government in Indonesia by building community television as an alternative to mainstream media.
Pakistan
Civic Engagement
Mohammad Ali quickly recovers and reunites missing children with their families through a neighborhood early warning system. He has developed a network of first-responders working in a wide variety of venues, including mosques, shops, roadside hotels, hairdressing salons, health clinics, and even among TV cable operators and the police. Mohammad then collects, prints, and disseminates information within the critical first few hours of...
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