MANCH

MANCH is a Hindi word that translates as ‘platform’ or ‘forum’. It is a platform that will enable community media practitioners across regions to Share, Collaborate and learn from each others’ practice of content creation, community engagement, use of technology, self governance and evaluation and share knowledge about many other aspects of their work.

At MANCH, we believe in the diversity of voices that need to be heard to ensure that the media landscape isn’t homogenous – it can be disparate yet dynamic - where groups or individuals enhance the media environment by promoting voices of their communities so that grassroots voices are heard beyond national and language barriers.

The MANCH platform supports sharing of audio, video, texts and image content by enabling community media groups apply a range of creative commons licenses to indicate how they would like their content to be used. The platform aims to assist community media groups enhance their capacity through productive collaborations with their peers. Additionally Manch will host and support learning webinars where partners and users will be encouraged to talk about their experiences and engage with the Manch community on a wide variety of issues. Manch will also support collaboration amongst its user community. The collaborations can contribute to the development of new collaborative content, help members and users co create programs or project designs, innovate with multilingual scripts or generate new ideas for community communication initiatives.

Manch database stores the video files as FLV format. So, when you want to play a video file using the mobile application you can download a third party video player which supports the FLV format. As often the native android video player does not support FLV format.