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Interim report for APC. collecting points

Towards a narrative report

While the city, the town and the villages where we work shutdown and we started working from home, a number of activities intensified. We switched to daily online team meetings at a regular hour that is convinient to all and this helped us being connected and to share and listen to each other. We soon noticed we and our friends were all very busy with many webinars on many topics of interest. Months have gone by by now staying home online and reflecting on activities of the past year and the future.

The lockdown was overnight and drastic in India. The announced lockdown was for a few weeks initially (later came to be called "lockdown stage 1"), not unlike in other places around the world. As it extended to stage 2, there was considerable panic among the daily wage and short term contractual job seekers. India became know for stories of "reverse migrants" walking hundreds to thousands of miles home as all carriage of personal was disallowed.

Work at our craft center and the village came to a halt as the master crafts people had returned to their home towns just days before the lockdown. Its eight months now and still there is no sign of normalcy at the craft center. Villagers who have small land holdings are less affected as over the weeks the farm produce could reach the near by towns. Most other needs were served by large companies, often international ones such as Amazon, and food deliveries such as Swiggy. The effect of this is that most of the small producers have shut shop even after eight months of the Pandemic. The community radio setup in the village had stopped just before the lockdown as our young radio jockeys eloped one day - while "express yourself" we had said, we had to be sensitive to the families and the village.

We thank APC for the much needed contingency support, that helped us attend to some of the following activities - in particular those that required support thanks to lockdown, from relief to community network activities.

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  • Kanniah
    • Introducing Jondu/bullrush grass to migrant workers at Kothanur bangalore

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Milli Sessions - International Archives Week

Our intent was for these sessions to be informal and to nurture conversations around different aspects of archives. It was run from 8th June to 14th June.

Following which some members of our team have started a larger collective to explore linked archives, their extendibility through annotation and their recontextualisation through narration, storytelling and juxtaposition. (https://hackmd.io/@tbdinesh/H1jAk1V28)

  • Lockdown relief efforts (thanks to friends' contributions)
  • Strategy to carry our work remotely: cloud servers, mesh mash with hot spots, webinar pi, tools
  1. Experimented tools on (Raspberry) Pi such as syncthing, yggdrasil, jitsi, bigbluebutton, nextcloud, maptales, papad, Maaya and Kolibri

Tools Explanation

What is Syncthing

Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it's transmitted over the internet.

What is Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil an early stages implementation of a fully end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network. It is lightweight, self-arranging, supported on multiple platforms and allows pretty much any IPv6-capable application to communicate securely with other Yggdrasil nodes.
https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/edit/a8IpbwLEp+lCYRnF8LlgjozI/

jitsi, bigbluebutton and nextcloud

Application layer managed by tech admins for setting up of open source software and services. ex. File Sharing, Database as services, Video conference bridge, Audio bridge, Ecommerce portals, Email service, Social Media, DNS server and more…

Maptales

This Maptales is a software design document that captures the system requirements and discusses the overall architecture of the system. The system in question is one designed for creating, publishing and consuming locative media. Locative media is media, text, audio, video, that has been geo-located. There are multiple types of locative media currently available, such as the KML files coming from the ‘Follow the sheep’ project.

Papad

Papad an application designed to listen and tag audio files by a CR station community. These tags (the meta information) can then be used to search, sort and share a large collection of audio files – eg., when community calls a CR station and leaves messages in large numbers, or when a CR Station wants to put their program content out so that the community can listen to it and also categorize it for their own convenience. To quote in one line, the tool is a community-oriented content curation for audio files.

Maaya

Maaya is a class of utilities to generaate a AV presentation from Images, Audio and subtitles.

Kolibri

Kolibri makes high quality education technology available in low-resource communities such as rural schools, refugee camps, orphanages, non-formal school systems, and prison systems.

  1. started collecting lockdown stories from the collegues and CN area
  2. Migrant stories
  3. storytelling project planning - storycorps, storymaps
  4. Meeting Khaniah and migrants groups from UP who were stuck in bangalore - no work. ideas on providing employment opportunities.
  5. Mask making activity at the CN area
  6. Helping connected people to provide emergency food etc. Disinformation and covid infodemic handling.
  7. Girish's radio for local info delivery
  8. Covid-19 campaign- Namma Halli Radio
  9. invited people to host webinars on Covid-19 - awareness
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Numun Second Step application

NUMUN FUND SEED, GROW & SUSTAIN GRANT FULL APPLICATION FORM Thank you for responding to the invitation to submit a full application for the Seed, Grow and Sustain grant. Your initial submission has been longlisted after an initial prioritisation process by the Numun Fund team, and this form is the full application form for the grant. This will be reviewed by a community-led selection committee. You can find out more about decision-making process, as well as the committee, on our website here. The form contains FOUR (4) parts. The questions are intended to give the community-led selection committee a better sense about how you are organising, who you work with, what is your idea of change, and the kinds of resources you are seeking and might also be able to offer to the community. Some of these questions may be repeats of the ones you have responded to before in the initial submission, and we appreciate your patience for filling this in again as the group reading this form will not be reading the previous one you submitted. The community-led selection committee are not the same people who did the longlisting, and as such, will not have read what you submitted before. Please feel free to copy and paste from your previous submission, or take the opportunity to provide more information to give us a better sense of who you are. All applications are read with the assumption that English is not the first language of the applicant. Note that all questions marked with asterisks (*) are required. We ask that you please read the questions and instructions carefully. Please be mindful of word limits and select responses you are to provide (e.g. based on the grant type you are applying for), so that the information you provide is clear.

Oct 7, 2022
APC FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT: 2021 LocNet Community Network Grant

Please answer the following questions briefly and submit the final narrative report no later than the 2021 date stated in your contract. Please limit your report to a maximum of  8-10 pages. If you want to send any additional information attach it as appendices. Please note that the approved final narrative report may be shared and read by our donors as part of our reporting purposes. A. Administrative information Name of Organisation: Servelots Infotech Pvt Ltd Title of Project: 2021 LocNet Communty Networks: Servicing the COW Agreement #: SG2021/65/LocNet Type of Grant:

Sep 19, 2022
Todo September 2022

Call with Deepak - scheduled 8th Sep 22 - Dinesh, Shalini, Bhanu(if willing). Dinesh send message to Bhanu Dinesh to contact Renu - Farm, Raghu Stall Ideas - for the 10/11th Festival @craftcenter 48% - Dinesh to contact Ranjani APC narrative report Numun application PT - 20th Sep GST - 20th Sep To CGS - ROC fee & KYC fee

Sep 8, 2022
Agenda for the 14th Sep 2020 weekly meeting with Medha and DA - Janastu's initiation.

Request Medha to briefly update on their sessions with Garima Girls. Discuss: (i) introduce concept of browser and how to manage sharing between mobile and laptop locally. (ii) later introduce apps for mobiles and laptops (iii) Use on our annotation app - PAPAD How Medha and Janastu see their roles on collaborate working. Update on the Webinar PI. Discussion further plans on collaboration based on results from point 2.

Sep 14, 2020
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