India’s Democracy is often referred as a ‘Miracle Democracy’ by the western press. No country has more heroically pursued the promise of democracy. Against the odds of staggering poverty, conflicting religious passions, linguistic pluralism, regional separatism, caste injustice and natural resource scarcity, corruption and social unrest. Indians have lifted themselves largely by their own sandal straps to become a stalwart democracy and emerging global power. Inspite of all the achievements in the last 60 years, we the people in India grumble, criticize and blame the Government, the political & bureaucratic class, justice system, police and the sorts. This only indicates that, there is more to do and more refinements to bring in our democratic system. As a large democratic country, we do have problems. Most of our problems can be addressed by collaborative efforts between people to people, people to government, and people to corporate programs. The New Age interactive media; which is an amalgamation of web 2.0, social media, IPTV, Interactive Billboards, Mobile VAS, OOi Paper and Digital Signage has the potential to provide the necessary framework for interactions and make the collaboration productive, transparent and effective. The lecture focuses on some of the initial thoughts, concepts of participatory democracy and how most of the current problems can be easily resolved with frameworks based on Interactive Media.

1. Krishnamurthy Hegde Founder, Interactive Media Worldwide URL: www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1254667 / [email_address] Participatory Democracy With New Age Interactive Media

4. Participatory Democracy In a participatory Democracy, framework to connect with people is the fundamental need. And its also important that, people have some attraction to relate with the framework itself

12. New Age Interactive Media Platform Customers Back Office Collaborative Platform promotes contextual collaboration Talent Pool

13. Interactive Media User Spectrum Digital Natives Digital Novices Digital Migrants Covers full people eco-system

16. Enterprise Institutions Individuals 2. Promotes Contextual Collaboration between drivers of social change Benefits of the Framework

17. Benefits of the Framework 1. Validated Identity promotes productive collaboration

18. 3. New order of Participatory Democracy Benefits of the Framework

19. I Swear, John F Kennedy 1917 - 1963 “ Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, But Ask What You Can Do For Your Country. ”