Where the contents
are?
While brainstorming on the whole process
of developing content coordination mechanism,
the initial debate was focused on where the
contents are? Who have them? How to harness
them? Are they presently shared? The fact was
that each organization, whether National Organizations,
Community Based Organizations, Government bodies,
Institutions, libraries, all have content but
how to develop a sharing mechanism and how to
develop a digitized content reservoir needed
for grassroots communities are the biggest challenges.
The need for developing a Google for the grassroots
was shared. Can the content developers and technical
experts together build a repository of content,
which could act as complete information solution
for the Grassroots Communities?
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When we talk about building
Information Society, are we prepared for the
digital era? Presently, all the IEC material
is in non-digital formats, can we build a
mechanism to digitize these contents and make
it available through the CIC movement? What
would be the mechanism? Whose task it would
be? Are NGOs coming forward or can they come
together in a consortia approach? This could
be understood well if respective roles of
government, NGOs and private sector are understood
well while drawing up the strategy for content
coordination mechanism.
India is advancing on technology
front, when it comes to content development;
it is three hundred times expensive than technology
development. The sophisticated software applications
have been developed for external world, and
when the question of local knowledge, local
language and local needs come, we have still
to go a long way. One of the World Bank paper
sees India as a knowledge colony!
