INFORMATION FOR CHANGEInfoChange News & Features (
www.infochangeindia.org) is a four-year-old online resource base that provides news, views, perspectives and debates on crucial issues of sustainable development and social justice in India and South Asia . It brings into sharp focus agents and avenues of change.
The website aims to inform readers on issues that are increasingly being pushed into the margins by the mainstream media. It seeks to enable readers to marshal facts, opinions and perspectives on rights and development issues, so that they can participate in drawing up an agenda for a more equitable and sustainable world.
This cross-sectoral website provides daily updates of development news from across India, the background and context to development and social justice issues in India, and features, profiles, interviews, data and statistics on the social sector. We also report dozens of stories of change from the grassroots.
Our content is sourced from a wide, credible and experienced network of independent journalists, researchers, development specialists and grassroots activists, and from dozens of different journals, websites and news agencies in India and across the world.
www.infochangeindia.org is one of India’s most-visited online resource bases on rights and development issues. We currently log an average of 1,000 visitors every day. Our content is linked and reprinted by several print journals and newspapers and by research institutions and development portals worldwide (see Copyright & Disclaimer).
InfoChange News & Features is managed by the Centre for Communication and Development Studies(CCDS:http://www.ccds.in), a social change resource centre focusing on the research and communication of information for change.
The core competence of the Centre for Communication and Development Studies is the strategic and innovative use of communication to inform, initiate and inspire change in societal attitudes and public policy. Our activities are designed to strengthen civil society by promoting a deeper understanding of issues related to sustainable development, justice, equity and rights. CCDS empowers activists, students, researchers, development analysts, policymakers and concerned citizens by giving them pertinent, timely and useful information on development and rights issues.
