Ajin P Chacko - Selected for The Social Hackathon 1.0

Ajin Jovachan is a young Social Volunteer, currently volunteering in the COVID 19 Rapid Response Team. He's currently doing Biomedical Engineering in Model Polytechnic College, Painavu.

SOCIAL ISSUE

Lack of a common platform for the common people in a local area to identify, discuss and find solutions for their own problems.

PROPOSED SOLUTION

The major social information sharing system are in the hands of big giants. Be it a social media or be it a NEWS PLATFORM. We aim to give everyone a space to express their opinions. By promoting Citizen Journalism, we will be able to raise, discuss and resolve the issues of the public. Everyone will get equal space for expressing their views. Initially we started it our own district IDUKKI. We are promoting KILA's Grassroot Journalism culture.

CONCERNS

None of the major medias are not addressing the issues of the common people. Local news are not getting any place in the media. Concerns of general public should be discussed in the public itself. They should come up with the solutions. And they should also get a chance to propose their ideas for development. The best problem solvers of an area is the people of it.

PROJECT: IDUKKI VARTHAKAL

DESCRIPTION

Development is not only about economic resources but also about improving people’s lives, we need to make it sustainable. Yet we keep coming back to the question of how. Before the internet age, our communication system followed the structure of ‘ONE TO MANY’, in which one producer communicated with many people. In this scheme, it was easy to identify who was the producer and who were the consumers – and that explains why journalists became information gatekeepers. Within that model, a handful of companies controlled the production and distribution of information. But in the twenty-first century, information and communications technologies that can be accessed by almost everyone had transformed the media landscape. We have become an information-driven society and our communication system is now ‘MANY TO MANY’. User-generated content is more common today, and lines between producers and audiences are blurred. Thanks to the internet, audiences act as CITIZEN JOURNALISTS. In fact, t