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Gram Vaani, meaning 'voice of the village', is a social technology company incubated out of IIT Delhi. We started in 2009 with the intent of reversing the flow of information, that is, to make it bottom-up instead of top-down. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools, we have been able to impact communities at large - more than 2 million users in over 7 Indian States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibia and South Africa. More interesting than this are the outcomes of what we have done: Forty rural radio stations are able to manage and share content over mobiles and the web, corrupt ration shop officials in Jharkhand were arrested due to citizen complaints made on our platform, Women Sarpanches in Uttar Pradesh shared learning and opinions on their work with senior government officials, and citizens were able to monitor and report on waste management in 18 wards of Delhi to hold MCD officials accountable for their work. Gram Vaani has won several awards, including: * The Knight News Challenge in 2008 * The Manthan Awards in 2009 * The Economic Times Power of Ideas awards in 2010 * The Rising Stars in Global Health award in 2012 * The mBillionth Award South Asia in 2012 and 2013 == Mobile Vaani == Going forward, we are bringing together our footprint on radio-over-phone and community radio services across the country, to build a unified platform of social media for the bottom of the pyramid. We call this Mobile Vaani. Mobile Vaani is our answer to building a social media platform equivalent to Facebook/YouTube/Twitter for rural areas. We have built an intelligent IVR (interactive voice response) system that allows people to call into a number and leave a message about their community, or listen to messages left by others. These messages range from updates about local village events, to folk songs and cultural updates from the communities, feedback on government schemes, and discussions about topics of importance including the state of education and health in rural areas. Being purely voice based, Mobile Vaani immediately becomes accessible to poorly literate communities. With a combination of applications running on the platform including social networking, citizen journalism, social messaging, and local governance, our goal is to scale the Mobile Vaani network across the entire country. Our flagship deployment in Jharkhand now has over 100,000 users that call over 3000 times per day, and discuss wide ranging issues on culture, local updates and announcements, government schemes, and information sharing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gram Vaani Community Media」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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