In early 2007 I traveled to India to extend my understanding of the cross over between media arts and community cultural development practice. This research trip was funded by the Australia Council's RUN_WAY initiative.

The focus of my trip was the Sarai new media centre in Delhi. A part of Delhi's Centre For The Study of Developing Societies, Sarai describes itself as 'a space for research, practice and conversation about the contemporary media and urban constellations'.

The work carried out by the researchers, arts workers and media practitioners at Sarai are based on the following philosophies:
- They use new media to empower disadvantaged people through community projects;
- They facilitate discourse around information technologies and pro-people initiatives;
- They encourage the open source software movement and alternative computer culture;
- They conduct research into networked cultures and digital archiving

I documented my research in a blog that has now become a general repository for ideas.