Hello,
Inviting Silk Listers for a face-to-face on digital practices for
democratisation in following cities/ dates,
Hyderabad, 2-6 Dec
Delhi, 8-15 Dec
Bangalore, 16-26 Dec
Find brief intro to my research work here. Reply to me directly to
hook up ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Poison of your choice in exchange
for your valuable time.
Also welcome are recommendations to initiatives/ individuals who are
not fortunate enough to be on the Silk List.
Project Title:
Telecommunicating Democratisation
Introduction:
The Right to Information (RTI) Act is a legislative instrument for
the realization of the fundamental and human right to information.
While the implementation of the RTI Act in India is motivated by the
prospect of deepening the country's democracy, the operationalisation
of RTI as a tool for empowerment of the citizen is not without its
fair share of challenges. Civil society and mass media have
highlighted the main issues for this bottleneck as being that of
corruption, transparency and unaccountability on the part of the
bureaucracy. NGO and activist interventions have sought to resolve
these issues through advocacy campaigns, training programmes and
citizens' movements employing creative media. Although these efforts
go a long way in raising awareness of rights, the lack of
sustainability is a check on there effectiveness. Telecommunicating
Democratisation (TD) is a proposal for the participatory and
collaborative understanding practices in governance based on active
citizenship. The aim is to inform the evolution of a digitally
networked tool to be deployed in the context of RTI, NREGA and PDS in
rural Karnataka.
Value:
1. For governance - Strengthen information exchanges between
government and civil society by making accountable commitments,
monitoring resource flows and tracking implementation progress.
2. For citizenship - Facilitate an engaged, involved citizenry with
the capacity to discern the rights of others.
3. For democracy - Enable engagement in public discourse. The TD
project can be regarded as a participatory approach towards a public
representation of responsiveness.
Cheers,
Zeenath
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zeenath hasan
phd candidate
media and communications studies
http://webzone.k3.mah.se/K3ZEHA
India: +91 (0) 96325 45088
Sweden: +46 (0) 76 1079601
