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Society track of The Goa Project 2016

A society is a group of people involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterised by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members. In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups

  • Social Media and Technology: How are these two affecting societal situations today, and how are we leveraging them to stimulate change in untapped areas.

  • Stories of Social impact: The rising tide of social entrepreneurship. Social impact projects at scale and at the grassroots.

  • Patterns of relationships between subgroups of society: How cultural expectations affect our approach to politics, civil sense, and how we go about daily life.

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neha singh

The future of Why Loiter? - new ideas for outreach

Submitted Jan 11, 2016

Technical level: Beginner

to discuss various new avenues that can be explored, through the arts/design/performances/any new medium to make the Why loiter? movement reach out to more women (and men) across urban and rural India.

Outline #

The talk will include what the Why loiter? book suggests, which is, free and unconditional right of women to public space and the right to take risk to make public spaces safer and more accessible to women. The Why loiter? movement that takes its inspiration from the book and has been operational for the last one and a half years in Mumbai, and now has inspired similar groups in Jaipur and Allahbad. The various sessions and campaigns that are already in place as part of the movement. And then letting the discussion open to what can be possibly the future goals, strategies and ideas to make this movement a national campaign to make public spaces safe and accessible to women across India.

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Speaker bio #

I am the founder of the Why loiter? Movement in Mumbai. I organise loitering sessions with women every weekend and loiter in various public spaces across the city. I also am the editor of the why loiter blog. I conduct workshops and lectures with students and women about the right to loiter and equal access to public spaces, regardless of gender.

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https://www.facebook.com/events/186796018333924/

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The Goa Project
#The Goa Project Funnel The Goa Project is an unconference - where unlike a typical conference, the talks are not put together by a panel or knowledge partner - but is proposed by the attendees themselves. You propose a session or talk that might be of interest to the audience at the unconference, … more