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The opportunity for accessible, secure, chat-for-impact services is enormous. Mobile chat via a medium like WhatsApp is transforming the way people connect. It’s also changing the way people engage with organizations and is increasing access to essential services. Never before have social impact teams been able to communicate with millions of people in ...

The media has the ability and power to change society for the better. If there is enough pressure from the media, it could result in schools introducing a class on understanding people with developmental disabilities, and vulnerable minority groups in general. Art and theatre classes could act as the ...

Too often during the COVID-19 pandemic, poor communication by scientists and experts has led to the low take-up of measures that could have saved lives. This is having a significant impact on progress in tackling the pandemic, in the US and elsewhere. Scientists and healthcare leaders need to focus on ...

As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, the world is faced with travel bans, project funding restrictions, and the increasing need to operate remotely. A multi-faceted COVID-19 Digital Response, including behaviour change communication on personal and respiratory hygiene, proper handwashing, social distancing, and so is therefore essential. Trying to get ...

This revised edition by Srinivas Melkote and Leslie Steeves traces the history of development communication, presents and critiques diverse approaches and their proponents, and provides ideas and models for development communication in the new century.  Click here to access this publication ...

This guide provides instructions on how to design and deliver an interactive training course through an app-based messaging platform. Drawing from Grassroots' pilot teaching leadership and storytelling through WhatsApp, we share tips on pedagogy, participant engagement, and the technical aspects of launching a distance-learning course. Part I of the ...

Global misinformation and information overload have characterized the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Rumors are unverified pieces of information spreading online or person-to person that reduce trust in health authorities and create barriers to protective practices. Risk communication and community engagement can increase transparency, build trust, and stop the spread ...

This book series is based on a project called ‘The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing’, or ASSA. This project focused on the experiences of ageing among a demographic who generally do not regard themselves as either young or elderly. We were particularly interested in the use and consequences ...

Around 90 percent of the world’s 570 million farms are small, and the owners and labourers who work on them are essential to global business, food security and environmental protection. With generations of experience, these smallholder farmers are more knowledgeable than anyone else about their local growing conditions and ...

This new  book by Preeti Raghunath draws on critical media policy studies, to study the principles and performances of policies and policymaking for community radio in four South Asian countries of Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. It focuses on the processes and practices of deliberation that go into ...