[Reader-list] tml-list at mail.sarai.net invite

Tripta tripta at sarai.net
Tue Dec 3 19:48:20 IST 2002


Sarai (www.sarai.net) hosted the first Tactical Media Lab. It was an event
that brought together, practitioners, programmers, activists, artists and
others from Delhi, Dehradun, Dhaka, Kathmandu, Mumbai and Tehran. We had
the opportunity to listen to presentations about a number of different
projects, that ranged from Indymedia Mumbai, to Linux Iran and Farsi KDE, to
the Sarai Ankur Cybermohalla project, and the Open Circle projects.

A group of us also participated in a three day 'Print and Web' for campaigns
workshop.

Also, a large number of questions, ranging from the importance of free
speech, to the social implications of free software culture, the issues
facing localization of software in various languages, to the limitations of
the language of 'ICT for Development' were debated threadbare.

We came away with the desire to sustain and deepn these conversations, and to
carry forward possibilities of collaboration, that we hope will eventually
lead to the holding of such Tactical Media Labs in different locations in
Asia, and towards the formation of a coalition or network of Tactical Media
Initiatives in the Asian Region.

We also feel the need to ask and reflect on the different modalities of
tacticla media, what do we mean by the term even, and work out mechanisms of
support, feedback and networking for all the work that we are doing in our
specific locations.

With this in view, we have decided to constitute a discussion list for to be
called, tml-list at sarai.net.

We invite all of you to join this list and carry forward our conversations.

Looking forward to interesting postings, animated discussion, and concrete
collaborations.

Please follow the given to link to subscribe to the list.

http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/tml-list

cheers
Shekhar and Tripta

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