Media for education and social change
Comet's dream is a society of individuals, empowered from childhood within a culture of knowledge seeking and knowledge creation. Comet Media Foundation or Comet is a non-profit organisation based in Mumbai, India. Founded in 1985, it positions itself at the juncture of science, technology and society. It makes and distributes media that fosters education, so
cial change and sustainability. To meet this challenge, the group creates learning experiences through activities such as our bal vividha interactive knowledge festivals, making films, bringing out books and forming partnerships with groups working in communities. To meet this challenge, the group creates learning experiences through activities such as:
- the Learning Ladder project which locates and distributes books, toys and other learning aids made by craftspersons and NGOs working in education.
- bal vividha interactive knowledge festivals, making films, bringing out books and forming partnerships with groups working in communities.
- CIRCLE or Community Information Repository and Centre for Learning Experiences is a project for setting up resource centres for play and informal learning in partnership with community-based NGOs.
- Another project to encourage film making for children and by children, launched in 2010 is Filmi Chashma.
-The COSMOS project conducts New Media workshops with an emphasis on Free Software. COSMOS has spun off the development of an accounting and inventory package called GNUKhata.
