[PeDAGoG] Map of alternatives in India: invitation to connect and contribute

Mon Jul 26 09:35:05 CEST 2021

Friends, this may be of interest. For details/to contribute/comment, pl. 
click on 'contact us' below or write to Swati, cc'd here ... DO NOT 
WRITE BACK ON LISTS please.

ashish

*Vikalp Sangam Map*

The *Vikalp Sangam **Map* <https://vikalpsangam.org/map/>documents and 
catalogues stories of alternative initiatives across India. It provides 
readers, researchers, students and practitioners with a user-friendly 
tool to navigate through stories, case studies, films and perspectives 
on numerous ongoing alternative initiatives in India. These initiatives 
range across food, environment, health, politics, culture, education, 
governance and many more subjects.

As the scale of many of these initiatives is small, many of them go 
unnoticed in the eyes of concerned citizens and researchers. The Map 
collects stories of alternatives in order to increase visibility with 
the aim of interlinking them and initiating conversations of 
sharing experiences and learning. It therefore, is a virtual medium to 
get information, connect with other groups working on similar issues and 
build confluences.

A Vikalp Sangam team manages the Map, to find out more please click here 
<https://vikalpsangam.org/map/>.*Vikalp Sangam*is a platform for 
networking of groups and individuals working on alternatives to the 
currently dominant model of development and governance, in various 
spheres of life. Its major activity is the convening of regional and 
thematic Confluences across India, and documentation and dissemination 
of alternative initiatives.

*What is an Alternative?*

Alternatives can be practical activities, policies, processes, 
technologies, and concepts/frameworks, that lead us to equity, justice, 
and sustainability. They can be practiced or proposed/propagated by 
communities, government, civil society organizations, individuals, and 
social enterprises, amongst others. They can simply be continuations 
from the past, re-asserted in or modified for current times, or new 
ones; it is important to note that the term does not imply these are 
always ‘marginal’ or new, but that they are in contrast to the 
mainstream or dominant system. Not all will be 'radical' in all 
respects, and many may be in transition or be in the nature of reforms 
but helping to reduce injustic, inequality, unsustainability. For how 
the Vikalp Sangam process looks at this,

*Read More…* 
<https://vikalpsangam.org/about/the-search-for-alternatives-key-aspects-and-principles/>

and for a tool of self-assessment on how radical and holistic a 
transformation is:

*Alternative Transformation Format* 
<https://vikalpsangam.org/wp-content/uploads/migrate/VS_Case_Studies/alternatives_transformation_framework,_final_ver_for_public,_revised_20.2.2017.pdf>

*What type of information can you find in the Map? *The VS maps stories, 
case studies, perspectives and videos/films across 11 main categories:

 1.   Economics And Technologies
 2.   Energy
 3.   Environment And Ecology
 4.   Food And Water
 5.   Health And Hygiene
 6.   Knowledge And Media
 7.   Learning And Education
 8.   Livelihoods
 9.   Politics
10.   Settlements And Transport
11.   Society, Culture And Peace

**

To *connect with us and contribute* to the Map please Contact Us 
<https://vikalpsangam.org/contact-us/>.

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Ashish Kothari
Kalpavriksh
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Pune 411004, India
Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450
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