The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya in collaboration with the Tata Centre for Technology and Design, IIT Bombay, Mumbai and Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, Mumbai commenced ‘Janbo Ta Pabo’ an introductory workshop on Social Media, Tribal and Folk Artists employed with IGRMS.
This workshop is part of six workshops series which will continue for next 6 months and each month a five day long workshop will be organised. In the workshop PhD Scholar of IIT Bombay, Debjani Mukherjee is imparting training.
She said “We are starting with basics of mobile phone like knowing one’s mobile number, dialling number, receiving calls and opening and sending messages. later we will give detailed information about social media tools Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, etc so that in future using contemporary social media the tribal artists will be able earn justified remuneration for their paintings and crafts.
Speaking on this occasion, Director, IGRMS, Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri said that Manav Sangrahalaya is committed to preserve the tribal culture. IGRMS organised ‘Janbo Ta Pabo’ to provide technical training of social media for the tribal artisans so that they get the justified price for their unique artwork in the market.
He further said that social media is an excellent platform where individuals connect directly irrespective of social hierarchy and also artists can connect to major organisations and vice versa resulting into quick and effective transfer of knowledge.
Every artist should be familiar with social media. The programme was coordinated by Surya Kumar Pandey.