South Asian Born-Digital NGO Reports Collection Project
New York University
An NYU project to identify, prioritize, archive, preserve and make discoverable and accessible to scholars curated elements of documentation from and about South Asia produced by government agencies, NGOs, think tanks, community organizations, research centers, underground groups, religious sects, political parties, women’s groups, social activists, human rights organizations, LGBTQ advocacy groups, and other content creators. These web pamphlets, online reports and documents, field notes, statistical documentation, think pieces, meeting proceedings, manifestos, party platforms, election campaign materials, activist materials, propaganda leaflets, posters and banners, etc. in the past would have been produced in print form, and could be selectively acquired by libraries to add to their research collections. But now, they are typically produced only on the web, where they are disseminated as ephemera. This kind of content is critical for historical and social science research, and to document the rise and evolution of social movements, but because the organizations themselves are often grassroots communities with little support, they devote their meager resources to their community work and creating the documentation, rather than archiving it or making it permanently accessible themselves. As a result, this is ephemeral content whose presence (and discoverability) on the web is often very unstable, unless collected and archived by the library community. If not captured and preserved now, this material will disappear for current and future scholars. As an extension to the South Asian Studies collections at NYU Libraries, this born-digital documentation preservation project is presented as growing open-access resource for scholars everywhere. For more information or to recommend contents for this collection, contact Aruna Magier, South Asia Librarian, NYU
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NYU: New York University · 1 October 2018 English
Pakistan is experiencing an unprecedented urban housing crisis. Low-rise, low-income urban settlements are rapidly and informally becoming high-rise, high-density informal settlements, with all the physical, social and environmental problems of …
NYU: New York University · 1 August 2018 English
The unplanned climate change adaptation benefits of a programme focused on Bangladesh’s freshwater ecosystems is making a case for this kind of initiative to be formally included in the country’s …
NYU: New York University · 2 June 2018 English
The plastic industry, owing to its use in a wide variety of sectors, such as the automotive, construction, electronics, healthcare, and textiles, is amongst the fastest growing markets...Although the burgeoning …
NYU: New York University · 1 June 2018 English
India is suffering from the worst water crisis in its history and millions of lives and livelihoods are under threat. Currently, 600 million Indians face high to extreme water stress …
NYU: New York University · 16 May 2018 English
Myanmar’s Rakhine State has long been afflicted by a toxic mixture of centre-periphery tensions, communal and religious conflict, and extreme poverty and underdevelopment. In 2014, Crisis Group warned that the …
NYU: New York University · 28 February 2018 English
Bangladesh faces a sustained threat from jihadist attacks.1 Since 2015, two jihadist groups, Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Ansarul Islam (hereafter Ansar), have targeted foreigners, secular activists and intellectuals, religious …
NYU: New York University · 1 February 2018
Governance of PAs and associated development activities is about who defines the overall objectives and how, and the allocation of responsibility and accountability for delivering on these objectives. An important …
NYU: New York University · 1 January 2018 English
The present report is prepared and submitted by Blue Diamond Society, an LGBT nongovernmental organization based in Nepal, with the support from the International, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex …
NYU: New York University · 2018 English
The Akanksha Foundation is a non-profit organization that works primarily in the field of education, addressing non-formal education through Akanksha centers and formal education through Akanksha schools
NYU: New York University · 2018 English
The report seeks to understand the rising ‘green’ bonds segment in India. It gives a brief overview of the developments in this segment – regulatory and market driven; lists key …