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 are now are able own and use smart phones. This project is about how makerspace in rural schools and nearby tourist destinations can help demystify media technology, content creation and dissemination on their networks of smartphone users. Students, along with others, will build content gathering, archiving and dissemination services and also produce media content themselves with the support of college going techies in their neighborhood. Content will be material relevant to their daily lives that contributes to their personality and community development. Such content will be accessible to their networks in their locality.

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