Meera K, is an Ashoka Fellow and was earlier a Knight Fellow at the International Centre for Journalists, runs Citizen Matters an online portal that aggregates citizen stories. With her experience in civic activism, open data and trying to get people to contribute to civic affairs, she unravels how we have changed as a society in talking about our urban issues.
Welcome to another episode of the OoruLabs podcast from Bengaluru.
Ever complained how bad our cities are? How bad your commute is? You’ll get to hear from people who are working to solve these problems in their own way.
This is your weekly soapbox for Urban Sustainability with Sathya Sankaran
Stock video credits to various contributors on Pexels, Pixabay and Mixkit. Additional footage sourced from Nihar Thakkar and Citizen Matters
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Timecodes
00:00 - Introduction & context
01:12 - Citizen journalism
09:06 - Active Citizen Maturity Model
13:50 - Hyperlocal information & action
26:32 - Neighbourhood matters
32:37 - New activism
44:50 - Resilience and change
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Profile of Meera K - https://www.linkedin.com/in/meerak/
Citizen matters - https://citizenmatters.in
Podcast with Rasheed Kappan on Newspapers and news media - https://youtu.be/XLKKTs9tCZk
Elon musk on citizen journalism - https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1709475380715823349?s=20
Kaikondrahalli lake, where activism and citizen journalism meets - https://bengaluru.citizenmatters.in/section/kaikondrahalli-lake
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