What is SixDegrees?

Come, be a part of SixDegrees, the local knowledge & news-sharing initiative on a global platform. Know more and share more.

How To Know Everything

In a seemingly connected world we seem to be more disconnected. As policy makers, investors, donors and development professionals are fuelling the agenda, there is a need to share, exchange and know what is happening with some of the most critical issues of our time — human, environmental, economic and social development.

Through SixDegrees of News

This is a platform where journalists, bloggers, development practitioners, governments, donors, investors and anybody who has access to critical, interesting, impacting information; stories from the development sector can amplify it. Share news that is first hand and that is happening in your geographies, because you have a voice and we are all connected.

It’s a place where stories, reports and views from your local projects, company, region and sector can be showcased. It’s your internet stadium to tell the world about the success and failures, about what is working and what is not. If we make the effort, we can together resolve issues that are critical to our times.

What does SixDegrees do? 

• Amplify local and global news, data, reports, innovations and stories from the development sector and on sustainable development
• A global platform for local journalists and development practitioners to share news that is first hand and is happening in their geographies
• To promote development stories and activities from NGOs, INGOs, inter-governmental organizations, CSRs, foundations, philanthropic institutions, think-tanks, research institutions and universities

Our Degrees

SixDegrees is run by a team of professionals who have decades of experience in the development sector, development communications, business development and news media. Most of us have travelled extensively into less frequented areas, interacted with various communities and reported development stories from on ground. We decided to form SixDegrees to reduce the opaqueness in the development sector, to demand more accountability, to highlight good examples and successes, to question projects, to share processes, and engage people within and beyond the development sector.

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Binayak Das has experience of about 20 years working on the development sector and on development journalism with a strong expertise on the subjects of water, environment, climate change, corruption, governance and sustainable development. Binayak has a masters’ degree on water management from UN-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands and a post graduate degree on environment management from IISWBM, Kolkata, India. He is a Panos journalist fellow and author of numerous books and articles on water, environment and climate issues. Binayak has been associated with IUCN, Transparency International, Arghyam, Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth magazine. Currently he is associated with the Water Integrity Network in Berlin. He is the founder of SixDegreesNews.

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Stefan Bakker is an independent consultant associated with the WB on low-carbon transport policy in Southeast Asia. From 2012 to 2015, he was the team leader of the ASEAN-German Technical Cooperation (GIZ) project on Transport and Climate Change.

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Ranjan Panda, popularly known as Water Man of Odisha & Climate Crusader, was awarded with first “Green Hero” in Dec 2010 by NDTV, received it from the President of India.Recently he was also profiled as “Odisha’s Conservation Master” by Hindustan Times. Ranjan is recognized as ‘Mahanadi River Waterkeeper’ by the New York based global ‘Waterkeeper Alliance’. Having about two and half decades of experience in leading several environmental conservation and human rights initiatives in the state of Odisha and in India.

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Marc Linneweber is a product manager with experience in developing ideas for early-stage startups, development organizations and established tech companies in both Asia and Europe. Currently, he is associated with Booking.com. Besides being passionate about innovation, he is an avid traveler and aspiring musician.