Dear friends
I have posted a detailed note with several links to resources that we created as part of a
development project between 2000 and 2004 in India. This is documented in a CD ROM
titled "Beyond Grassroots" which is a CD ROM on Institution Building at BCDI.
"Bamboo & Cane Development Institute, Agartala (BCDI): CD ROM as a live
documentation of intentions and actions of the design team from NID,
Ahmedabad in partnership with the team from BCDI, Agartala. – “Beyond
Grassroots: Bamboo as Seedlings of Wealth”.
This CD ROM was produced in 2003 - 2004 using reports, movies and pictures
that were part of the very detailed visual documentation that was maintained
by the NID and BCDI teams using digital tools that were constantly available
as a project policy. The intention was to build an Institute that could
address the very complex needs of the “Grassroots sector” in rural India
through the creation of human resources, knowledge resources as well as
market linkages with the use of a potential local material such as bamboo
which could be used to support a whole spectrum of development activities
that could lead to positive change in the lives of the people. This CD ROM
can be downloaded as a 560 MB zip file that unpacks into hyper linked
folders and files all connected through a series of navigation screens shown
on the blog.
We believe that India and other nations may need many institutes like this
one if we are to use design to transform our rural economy with the use of
local resources in a sustainable manner and in a politically stable
eco-system that can survive well into the future with the use of design,
democratic decentralized local governance and local entrepreneurship.
<Beyond Grassroots: CD ROM on Institution Building at
BCDI><http://design-for-india.blogspot.com/2009/03/beyond-grassroots-cd-rom-on-
institution.html>
With warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my iMac at home on the NID campus
29 March 2009 at 9.55 am IST
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