An Analysis of Impact Pathways arising from a Mobile-based Community Media Platform in Rural India
It provides a framework for technology-driven community media in ICTD, potentially aiding similar interventions, but is incremental as it builds on existing case-study methods.
The study analyzed Mobile Vaani, a mobile-based voice platform in rural India, to develop a theory of change for empowering marginalized communities through local media creation, using the Most Significant Change technique for data collection.
Our research presents the case-study of a mobile phone based, voice-driven platform - Mobile Vaani, established with a goal to empower poor and marginalized communities to create their own local media. In this paper, we derive a comprehensive theory of change for Mobile Vaani from data gathered using the Most Significant Change technique. This paper contributes towards formulating a theory of change for technology-driven community media platforms which can be adapted to other ICTD interventions too.