InfoChangeindia.org

Online resource base on development and social justice issues in India

InfoChangeindia (www.infochangeindia.org), is a daily development news website managed by CCDS. It updates readers on development and social justice issues in India in particular and South Asia in general. The website provides accessible, readable, and contextualised data, facts, figures, news and views on a wide range of issues such as poverty and livelihoods, education, public health, food security and agriculture, the environment, water resources etc. It highlights alternative models of development and brings agents and avenues of change into sharp focus.

www.infochangeindia.org is India’s leading cross-sectoral online resource base on sustainable development, rights and social justice. Content is generated by an experienced inhouse team as well as a wide, credible and experienced network of independent journalists, researchers, development specialists and grassroots activists, and from dozens of different journals, websites and news agencies in India and across the world.

www.infochangeindia.org currently logs over 2,000 visitors every day. Our content is linked, reprinted and cited by several journals and newspapers worldwide and by research institutions and development portals, taking our material to many more readers.

The readership of this online resource base consists of:

• students and researchers in the social sciences, ecology, development studies, human rights law etc, looking for analysis, facts and figures, news updates
• academics and teachers, looking for material they can incorporate in their course work
• activists and members of civil society organisations in India and abroad, seeking to keep abreast of news in the development sector and governance, or seeking to represent their own work on the site, or get in touch with and network with like-minded organisations and campaigns
• policymakers and commentators
• journalists and mediapersons, looking for background material and context for their stories/reports, or for stories about sustainable development and social justice to follow-up  
• individuals and organisations working in social communications, including a vibrant network of documentary filmmakers in India
• volunteers and donors, looking for opportunities to collaborate with individuals and organisations making a difference
• citizens concerned about governance/rights/sustainable development issues
• marginalised groups such as the disabled and the HIV-positive, looking for information on their rights, and for organisations and networks that can assist them.

The profile of our readers, coupled with the ever-increasing traffic on our site and the increasing number of publications/websites reprinting or linking to our content, suggests that:

1. there is a clear need for the kind of information provided on www.infochangeindia.org
2. there are very few independent, free-access, informed and accessible cross-sectoral resource bases for civil society on development/rights/justice issues in India/South Asia
3. www.infochangeindia.org has become a regular and well-established resource base and reference point for information and analysis on development and social justice issues in India
4. www.infochangeindia.org is not only a source of credible information, but a growing civil society network.