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Meeting with the director John D'Souza

Consciousness in its field of intervention, approach, policy.
They collect newspapers because they are the simple of mass circulation, mass interface. For people is easy to understand the language. John thinks that a large number of people don't read because it is difficult read, understanding the information {examples of the books), so

Response mechanisms adopted (if any) and in which field.
they try to put information in a way that people could understand/interact, friendly use. He underlines the importance of how information are selected and collected. He believes that the scenario of the information after 15 th years of CED activities has in those last years change. Consequently they changed their mandate for what concern organizing and processing the information.

People don't move anymore because of the electronic information (internet). So they had to change and change relationship with information and information development. Development is good only when there is participation, activism. Their mandate is to work as middleman with the people, middleman for exchange. He believes that we need information which is exchangeable.

Appropriateness of …(Architecture, technologies, documentation)
Information {even on architecture} to be appropriate has to be free, accessible and local.

The most inappropriate thing is trying to define appropriateness.