A group of individuals used to gather every Sunday at the open ground of Salt Lake; they were Cubs, Scouts and Rovers, they used to learn scouting and to work for the betterment of their society. Initially there was a Scout group only; later on, a Guide group was also inducted. It was twenty years […]
Placing Information Literacy Skills at the Core of Instruction to Promote Critical Thinking
This article considers students’ perceptions of the academic research process so as to guide librarians and classroom faculty to enhance students’ ability to find and evaluate research sources and thus develop students’ information literacy capabilities. Instructional design for information literacy should begin by examining how students approach research using the world wide web. While some […]
Braille Edition of The Peace Gong (children’s newspaper)
The Peace Gong, the children’s newspaper launched its Braille Edition in Hindi and English on June 6, 2015 in association with Arushi. The Peace Gong reaches out to children across the length and breadth of the country and even abroad. It is a media literacy initiative of the Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Foundation, New Delhi. It […]
FORMEDIA
Formedia, is a not-for-profit registered foundation, based at New Delhi, India, since 2000. It was set up in public interest, towards the cause of high-quality creative content in the media and NGO sector, with an emphasis on the critical genre of documentary and including the role of news and related forms of information.The media-related activities […]
Empowering rural communities through multimedia village information centers
Agriculture including Crop husbandry, Animal husbandry, Fisheries, Forestry, Agro-forestry and Agro-industries provides livelihoods to over 70 per cent of rural Indian population. Developing appropriate ICTs for sustainable development and livelihood is, therefore, essential at grass roots level, i.e., at community level. A study was performed for determining the information needs of different communities and designing […]
Online and upcoming: The Internet’s impact on India
The Internet today connects more than two billion people worldwide. The Internet already has immense impact on the global economy, contributing an estimated $1.7 trillion, or just under 3 percent, of global GDP in 2010. Yet half the number of Internet users lives outside the advanced economies, often in countries that are quickly developing, have […]
Role of Television in Child Development
Child development has been considered as a priority sector by the policy makers in India and other countries. A new generation of children has grown up with television exposure in modern society. The impact of television on the personality of the children needs to be examined scientifically and systematically in modern society. Children spend a […]
The Peace Gong – The Children’s Newspaper
This children’s newspaper is part of a Media and Information Literacy Initiative of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Foundation. This issue on the post 2015 development agenda is being published in association with the UN Volunteers, International Association for Volunteer Effort, Anant Vikas Trust and PIDT.
The Peace Gong
Novel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore believed that it was not enough to pass on information, what was important was the ability to put to use what one has learnt and to develop curiosity and alertness of mind. In the contemporary knowledge society this perspective of Tagore is of great importance as there are deluge of […]
Media Action Group
The Media Action Group is an initiative to extend the role of media with a systematic research and action intervention by offering a platform for development support communication. These intervention methods include research, editorial campaigns, and people engagement.