In November 2011 Pratima Joshi, the Executive Director of Shelter Associates, was featured on the Times of Indias national news channel ‘Times Now’ as part of their ‘Amazing Indians: India on the rise’ series. You can watch the video on TIMESNOW.tv, click on the link below to be taken to the short film. The name of the short film is ‘Sheltering the urban poor – 1 and Sheltering the urban poor – 2’.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/amazing-indians/Videos/amzvideo.cms
Pratima Joshi, Executive Director of Shelter Associates, recently participated in a social media technologies workshop through the Ashoka Foundation. Identified as having used web 2.0 and/or social media technologies to advance SA’s work, she was invited to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center in Northern Italy. The purpose of the workshop was to determine how an NGO can best use social media tools to transform their work and generate ideas and solutions to specific problems. Innovative social change work can be accelerate with the use of innovative communications technologies.
Watch this short film showing the Ashoka Fellows and workshop administrators who attended: