Invite for Media meet - PARI (People's Archive of Rural India) - by its Founder & Journalist P.Sainath, 17th Dec, Chennai
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Abhishek Joshi
Dec 10, 2014, 2:02:41 AM12/10/14
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FYI: Invite and Info about PARI:
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The People's Archive of Rural India (PARI) is delighted to invite you for a conversation with its founder, journalist P. Sainath, on December 17th, in Chennai.
The PARI website is both a living journal
and an archive aimed at recording the everyday lives of everyday people; it
will host and combine video, still photo, audio and text articles.The site will launch on December 20th, 2014.
The website is not-for-profit, free to view and all the contributors - journalists, writers, film-makers, editors, translators, techies, lawyers and accountants - are volunteers. It will be licensed under creative commons (version 4.0) which means the contents can be shared by others, as long as it is non-commercial. (The PARI website too is developed free of charge, by a global software company ThoughtWorks, at Ascendas tech park, Chennai.)
The website hopes to grow by public participation. Anybody can send us pictures, text articles, photo stories, films - as long as it fits our mandate - 'the everyday life of everyday people'. Content on the site will be curated to ensure the maintenance of high standards. PARI hopes to function on crowd-funding. It will not be dependent on direct corporate or government funding.
You can read up more about the website here: http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/about/
The website is not-for-profit, free to view and all the contributors - journalists, writers, film-makers, editors, translators, techies, lawyers and accountants - are volunteers. It will be licensed under creative commons (version 4.0) which means the contents can be shared by others, as long as it is non-commercial. (The PARI website too is developed free of charge, by a global software company ThoughtWorks, at Ascendas tech park, Chennai.)
The website hopes to grow by public participation. Anybody can send us pictures, text articles, photo stories, films - as long as it fits our mandate - 'the everyday life of everyday people'. Content on the site will be curated to ensure the maintenance of high standards. PARI hopes to function on crowd-funding. It will not be dependent on direct corporate or government funding.
You can read up more about the website here: http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/about/
PARI
will be an important educational tool, and you can find out more about that
here: http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/about/pari-teachers-students/
(Pls explore the site; the videos, however, will go live only on the 20th.)
Kindly join us on the 17th, for the media meet.
Sainath will introduce PARI, and answer any questions you may have about the
website.
We look forward to your support to help us spread the word about what is possibly the biggest initiative of its kind anywhere.
Abhishek Joshi
Twitter : @abhjoshi
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