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Rebel With a Cause: Rana Ghose
 

As an academic, Rana Ghose is focused on researching genetically modified crops in India and the regulation that surrounds their management. As a filmmaker, video trainer, and photographer, he is dedicated to empowering community groups with the tools to tell their own stories. As a humanitarian, he believes in a better world. Get to know Ghose; a rebel with a shiny black camera with a cause. For more visit his blog: Camera Lucida- http://ranaghose.wordpress.com/

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Trees of Plenty (Clip 2)
Trees of Plenty (Clip 2)
Speed of re-growth and decomposition of crops and trees are mandatory experiments....
How Can Wireless Connectivity be of Use in a Development Context? An Acacia Connectivity Africa Project
How Can Wireless Connectivity be of Use in a Development Context? An Acacia Connectivity Africa Project
A workshop on wireless connectivity in Africa demonstrates how easy and cost-effective wireless can be....
Building New Livelihoods in a Conflict Zone Using Information and Communications Technologies
Building New Livelihoods in a Conflict Zone Using Information and Communications Technologies
Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief use technology training to create new livelihoods in Uganda....
Using ICTs to Monitor and Evaluate the Rollout of Antiretroviral Therapy
Using ICTs to Monitor and Evaluate the Rollout of Antiretroviral Therapy
The use of hand-held technology allows health workers to monitor an ARV therapy rollout in South Africa....
Bamboo, The Miracle Grass (Clip 2)
Bamboo, The Miracle Grass (Clip 2)
Bamboo fertilization and propagation techniques are critical to its survival....
Trees of Hope (Clip 1)
Trees of Hope (Clip 1)
Wood, the world's most reliable and renewable source of energy, is being taken for granted....
Trees of Hope (Clip 2)
Trees of Hope (Clip 2)
In Niger, the government implements community sensitive forestry techniques....
Trees of Plenty (Clip 1)
Trees of Plenty (Clip 1)
Trees and crops are not enemies. IDRC works with farmers in Nepal on planting strategies....
Wireless Development
Wireless Development
How wireless technology might change the way development work is done....
Appropriate Use of Technology
Appropriate Use of Technology
Rana's opinion about the utility of technology in development work....
Grassroots Media
Grassroots Media
The use of media at the grassroots level can make a difference....
Hooked on Video
Hooked on Video
Rana tells how he became hooked on digital video and began to see its potential in development work....
The Effect of Media Training
The Effect of Media Training
Rana's hopes for the users of media training....
Training in New Delhi
Training in New Delhi
How Rana went from training development workers in the West to training people on the ground in India....
Just Shoot It
Just Shoot It
Rana's encouragement for would-be filmmakers....
Training in New Delhi
Training in New Delhi
How Rana went from training development workers in the West to training people on the ground in India....
The Future of Media?
The Future of Media?
The kind of future Rana would like to see....
How the Funding Works
How the Funding Works
Rana explains the connections between the different development agencies that fund his work....
The Importance of Perspective
The Importance of Perspective
An explanation of why Rana teaches video to the people who are directly involved in agricultural projects....
Demystifying Media
Demystifying Media
Rana on how digital video has changed the creation and distribution of media....
Bamboo, The Miracle Grass (Clip 1)
Bamboo, The Miracle Grass (Clip 1)
A remarkable account of the many uses of bamboo and where it comes from....
Training in a New Context
Training in a New Context
How Rana teaches in a foreign culture, where technology and literacy are not what he was used to in Ottawa....
Cultural Influences
Cultural Influences
An observation on cultural influence and how it affects his students' videos....
Big Media Will Fall
Big Media Will Fall
How creating your own media changes the way you think about media in the world around you....
What's the purpose of media training?
What's the purpose of media training?
Rana describes the real goal of the training he provides....
After workshop snack
Training in Nonglang
Hanging outside the clinic
After school
Sharing Experiences
Media empowerment during hard times
Youth from Chhatisgarth
Workshop in Zanzibar
Youth living in an Internally Displaced People camp
The Self Empowered Women's Association
Rice harvest
On Location
Relaxing in Nonlang Village
New Media and Development

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