NTU Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities 2.19

The Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities (COSMIC) is a collaborative initiative between three centers of excellence – two from Singapore, the NUS (National University of Singapore) and the NTU (Nanyang Technological University), and one from India, IITB (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai).

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COSMIC aims to empower communities, through social media innovations that improve the way they live, work and play, specifically those in the informal economy who are typically underserved by existing technology vendors and telecom service providers.
The research envisions new interaction paradigms and information technology scenarios, which have the potentials to empower the next billion users - focusing on the common man in its everyday pursuit of activities in the 21st century.

The four strands presently taken up for building social media solutions/interventions are agriculture, health, technology infrastructure, and social tools to help port the solutions.

The strategic goal of the project is to leverage social media applications for large scale use through scaling up of our solutions across countries from Asia and Africa with similar socio-economic-cultural contexts.

The Centre intends to partner with industry and institutions in Singapore/India and elsewhere to test and deploy technologies.

COSMIC is, therefore, keen to invite potential stakeholders (technologists, media, NGO’s working on the ground and the corporate sector) to help disseminate these solutions.