MediaMakers

Women and Youth in rural and semi-urban areas have failed to get the best out of the local school system, and have either dropped out of school early or have found literacy to be irrelevant in their everyday needs. These people now are able own and use smart phones. This work is about how "makerspace" in rural schools and nearby popular destinations can help demystify media technology, content creation and dissemination on their networks of smartphone users. Students, along with others, will build services for content gathering, archiving and dissemination and also produce media content themselves with the support of friends from their neighborhood colleges. Content will be material relevant to their daily lives that contributes to their personality and community development. Such content will be accessible to their community in their locality and elsewhere.

98% of rural users are men. 2016. https://www.medianama.com/2016/08/223-rural-internet-usage-pattern/

Rural Usage Patterns, 2016. https://www.medianama.com/wp-content/uploads/rural-India-users.png

Dinesh iAnnotate COWlick short talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm77MP4KV2A

Internet Researchers Conference sessions bit.ly/IRC17-ReWeb