Mapping the Neighbourhood

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Mapping the Neighbourhood: "Mapping the Neighbourhood is an initiative of Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) and funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. The project conceptualized as an alternative learning experience, has attempted to move from a ‘strategy-structure-systems’ approach to a ‘purpose-people-process’ approach through the use of ICT and community maps in the learning process.

The programme has aimed to install a new kind of imparting education on the aspects of neighbourhood level development that is based on participatory learning and collection of relevant information of the locality. The essential part of this system is that it works with school students as the ‘tenets of change’ and representatives of their community Hence, essentially it is participatory in its execution and scientific in its methods. The maps prepared through community-friendly-technology by the community, in this case the school children, forms the basis of decision-making for the community (community –based planning) and can be fed into the ongoing planning and development process "