LINKS ON THE WORK OF THE BAREFOOT COLLEGE AVAILABLE
ONLINE
1. Barefoot College (campus)
Barefoot College Campus-Digital
Library
http://archnet.org/library/images/thumbnails.tcl?location_id=5621
A College that Trains Poor Rural People, Architectural
Review,
November 2001
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m3575/1257_210/80517187/p1/article.jhtml
Marjetica Potrc: Urban Independent: Barefoot College and Sustainability
http://www.creativetime.org/consumingplaces/potrc/c_bc_q4.html
2. Ideology and Philosophy
The
Barefoot Revolution
http://infochangeindia.org/fetaures01.jsp
Education and Poverty Eradication
http://www.unesco.org/education/poverty/bar_foot.shtml
Technology Tradition and the Barefoot College
http://www.literacyonline.org/products/ili/webdocs/bunker.html
New Scientist:Barefoot Pioneers
www.newscientist.com/inprint/previous/20020504.jsp
BBC Fighting Poverty in India
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/1723539.stm
Development India: College for Barefoot Rural Experts,
World
News Inter Press Service
http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/apr01/10_40_024.html
Tilonia-Where Gandhi is still alive
http://www.kinderkulturkarawane.de/english/ChildFolk/barefoot.htm
Global Village Barefoot College provides a Model of Self Development
at the Village Level, Global Village News, News
and Resources Issue No 57 March 10,2003
www.gvnr.com/57/1.htm
The Barefoot Soldier, Asian
News Feature
http://www.samachar.com/newsasia/featarchives/05072003.html
True Volunteerism and Charity: Singapore Times
http://knowledgelabs.net/blog/C400963810/E594171730
India NGOs:People in the Social and Development Sector
http://indianngos.com/people/schwab/bunker.htm
24/Worldwide Projects EXPO 2000 Hannover Germany
www.fair-pr.com/expo/gobasic/barefoot.html
3. Providing Drinking Water
to Poor Communities
Case
Study by the Barefoot College: International Secretariat for Water
www.i-s-w.org/mllundi16-18_en.htm
Virtual Exhibit: Rain Water Harvesting World Summmit on Sustainable
Development, Johannesburg
August 2002
http://www.virtualexhibit.net/new/GlobalShowcaseTemplate.php?project_id=122®ion_id=all&industry_id=all- 18k
D
akar School with Indian
Rain Water Harvesting System: Global WASH Forum
http://wsscc.org/dataweb/downloads/dakar/news/newsletter/Daily_Flush-III.doc
Partnership-CSD: Global Rain Water Harvesting Collective
http://webapps01.un.org/dsd/partnerships/public/partnerships/1101.html
4. Solar Electrification
of Remote Villages
Barefoot Solar Engineers
Barefoot,Female
and a Solar Engineer
http://www.indiatogether.org/2003/jan/wom-solarengr.htm
Barefoot
Engineers show the way to Rural Energy Solutions, UNDP-supported
National Workshop
http://www.undp.org.in/news/press/press233.htm
Barefoot College Train Rural Women Barefoot Engineers
http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=1959
Barefoot Engineers Show
the Way to Rural Energy Solutions www.undp.org.in/news/press/press233.htm
Barefoot Solar Engineers
Winrock Newsletter Vol17
October 2003 http://www.renewingindia.org/newsletters/resource/current/res_oct_15_03.htm
Women Solar Engineers
Lighting up Lives in Rural Rajasthan www.renewingindia.org/newsletters/energyline/past/news_feb0202.htm
Solar Lanterns Light
up Tilonia Womens Lives http://www.nrel.gov/ncpv/hotline/tilonia.pdf
Solar Power sees the
Light of Day Business
Line http://www.blonnet.com/businessline/2001/05/07/stories/100767m1.htm
Poor and Female but Smart
Good
News India 21st October 2003 www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/newsclip/story/123_0_2_0_C
Illiterate Solar Engineers
who Light Up Villages: The Tribune http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030202/spectrum/main4.htm
Virtual Exhibit: Solar Electrification Barefoot
Approach World
Summit for Sustainable Development Johannesburg South Africa
http://www.virtualexhibit.net/new/globalShowcaseTemplate.php?project_id=110®ion_id=all&industry_id=all-18k
4. Barefoot Teachers
The Night Schools of Tilonia
An Interactive
Educational website for Rural Classrooms with Global Vision
http://www.fallsbrookcentre.ca/webmain/programs/Education/EducationUnits/Journey%20to%20India/NightSchools/EnterNightSchool/EnterSchool.htm Peoples Science
http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_full_story.php?content_id=41563 Best Practices of Non-Violent Conflict Resolution
in and out of School: UNESCO http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001266/126679e.pdf A
Farewell to Darkness http://shikshanic.nic.in/cd50years/g/W/93/0W930A01.htm
CNN World Report 11th
March 2001,
Educational
Experiment Changes Lives in Indian Desert State
www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/11/wr.08.html
5. The Childrens Parliament
BBC: Childrens Parliament Boost India Health
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2212188.stm
The World at its Bare Feet India Times Learning
http://learning.indiatimes.com/school/pages/spotlight/newsdesk/barefoot.htm
Little People do Big Things, Sunil Mehra-Outlook
http://www.hvk.org/hvk/articles/1297/0088.html
Democracy in the Night Schools of Rajasthan
http://barefootcollege.org/html/school-democracy.html
Bal Sansads: Members of Parliament at 11
http://www.infochangeindia.org/features175.jsp
6. Empowerment of Rural
Women Mature
Woman joins Digital Era http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2940242.stm
People and Planet.Net
People and Renewable Energy Barefoot
College Award will train Village Women http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=1959
Tilonia-selling Handicrafts
over Internet www.tilonia.com
7.De-mystifying Information
Technology
Software .To the rescue
of Parched Indian Villagers 28th May 2001
www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/s-asia-it/archive/2001/05/msq00045.html
IT
in the Village Keeping Track of Water http://www.cddc.vt.edu/knownet/articles/it-water.html
Information and Communication Technologies for
Education and Teachers Development
in the Asia and Pacific Region: Issues and Challenges
Ian Birch and Rupert
Maclean Vol 1 No 2 December
1998 Pp. 41-52 http://www.ied.edu.hk/cric/apjted/1_2/pp41-52.htm
The
Video Project 1800 Planet UNESCO
The Barefoot College:Knowledge
Demystified 44 mins www.videoproject.net/barefoot.html
8. Capacity Building
Barefoot College: Capacity Building for Poor Communities
http://rrmeet.undp.org.in/_disc6/00000001.htm
A College that Trains
Poor Rural PeopleArchitectural
Review November 2001 http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m3575/1257_210/80517187/p1/article.jhtml
Best Practices on Indigenous
Knowledge UNESCO
http://www.unesco.org/most/bpik16.htm
Engineering
a Better World McGill Reporter
7th Feb 2002 Vol 34 Number 10 www.mcgill.ca/reporter/34/10/ewb/
9.Public-Private Partnerships
Indias Barefoot Generation
www.unesco.org/courier/2000_03/uk/dossier/txt02.htm
The Barefoot College
Project UNEP
http://www.unep.org/unep/envpolimp/techcoop/19.htm
10.Transparency & Public Accountability
UN
Chronicle Vol XXXVII Number I 2000 Villages
as a Positive Force for Good Governance truggle against Grass root
Corruption
www.un.org/Pubs/Chronicle/2000/issue1/0100p86.htm
11. Awards
The Barefoot College
of Tilonia India www.nuclear-free.com/english/barefoot.htm
The Worlds Children
Prize http://www.childrensworld.org/wcpswe/nomin/indieneng/indexeng.asp Stockholm
Challenge www.challenge.stockholm.se/search_view.asp?IdNr=4143
The AGFUND Prize 2001
http://www.agfund.org/english/prize/prize-winners-2001.htm
Swiss Award for Bunker
Roy:The Hindu 22nd September 2002 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/09/22/stories/2002092202240700.htm
The Ashden Prize:Green
Oscars http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/jun/19award.htm
Good News India: St Andrews
Prize http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/newsclip/story/88_0_2_0_C/
The Tyler Prize
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/tylerprize/04tyler.html
