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SMART
Seeking Modern Applications for Real Transformation
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SMART endeavours to promote not only women’s rights but rights of
vulnerable and marginalised groups and strives towards enabling them to
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SMART aims to democratize information through the radio, supplemented
with a strong and sustained on-ground community engagement.
About Us
Seeking Modern Applications for Real Transformation (SMART) was registered in 1997 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 with non-profiteering objectives. It has been working with vulnerable communities, with a focus on women, and is committed to creating awareness and empowering communities to speak up and stand up for their rights and entitlements. SMART uses new and traditional communication technologies for acquiring knowledge in order to create a more just social and economic order with a mission to eradicate poverty through gender equality, improved family health, protection of the environment and promotion of democratic participation of minorities.
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Civic Games Lab
Deepening civic education through games that tell everyday stories.Civic Games Lab, a games4social change, is all about confronting the gaming industry by emphasizing on Indian narratives, Indian characters, and of course, Indian designs.
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Radio Mewat
Radio Mewat, a SMART initiative, is a community radio station located in Mewat, an extremely backward district in the state of Haryana, India.
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The Radio Festival
The Radio Festival is India's first festival that celebrates radio in all its forms. The event will include sounds from the 3 main tiers of broadcasting - public, private, and community - as well as from independent podcasters.
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AKP
Archana Kapoor has been making films for the past thirty years and has produced over three hundred films. The eponymous production house has made documentaries for the government of India, Doordarshan and Multilateral International Bodies; TV shows (fiction) for DD Bharti and the Government of India, and corporate films for many industrial houses.
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Projects
SMART aims to democratize information through the radio, supplemented with a strong and sustained on-ground community engagement.
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The Poll
The Poll is an Indian board game that simulates how political parties fight and win elections. It is for the concerned, thinking Indian.
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Media Centre
In places where the radio does not reach, SMART uses narrowcasting to provide information at the doorstep.
Work Done By SMART During Covid-19
As the weight of COVID-19 hit India and lockdown was imposed, SMART fulfilled its responsibility by adopting a multi-pronged strategy to respond to the pandemic. While on one hand, SMART executed work in Haryana’s Mewat district through its community radio station Radio Mewat, on the other hand it supported community radio stations across India with content for awareness. To learn about the situation in Mewat, click here
Partners
In our journey, we have worked with and been supported by a variety of governmental and non-governmental partners
Governmental Partners
Non-Governmental Partners
