Equal participation in civic engagement requires making the platform accessible for all. However, the political discourse and developmental debates, which impact on the lives of under-served communities, are not often accessible to them. The challenges associated with literacy, skills, affluence, privilege, and knowledge often keep many people silent. Being inspired by Political Philosopher, Iris Young, I argue that for making a platform accessible for all it needs to invite different modes of expressions from the participants. To advance this argument, I conducted ethnography with the ready-made garments workers in Bangladesh in 10 sites and documented how they describe the differences in their experiences between their life at their home and at their factories. I further studied the local artists of Bangladesh who pain on the rickshaws to understand how local art could become a ubiquitous medium for marginalized voices.

In this ongoing project, we are connecting this art-based local voice to the cutting-edge technology of crowd-funding. The objective of this research is to protect the local arts from technical takeover, and make them prominent media for people's voice.