Rising Voices · January 2008

January, 2008

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Featured stories from January 2008

Neighborhood diaries: Young citizen journalists getting into the act

Last time we featured the Neighborhood Diaries project, participants from Kolkata’s slums were learning more about their neighborhood. In this week's feature we read their profiles of local characters and find out more about their daily lives. The weekly workshop also got more interesting with enactments of skits regarding their...
Nari Jibon: Bloggers discussing education, emancipation and poverty

Since July Nari Jibon Project staff and students have posted more than 170 articles (in both Bangla and English). Today we feature their stories about their livelihoods and their perspectives about poverty, emancipation and importance of education for women. Read how women are making their presence felt in a society...
Voces Bolivianas Featured on BBC's The World

Voces Bolivianas, one of the first five recipients of a Rising Voices citizen media outreach award, was featured yesterday on the BBC program, The World. In the four minute feature Ruxandra Guidi interviews project facilitator Mario Duran and Voces Bolivianas participant and Aymara translator, Dora Romero. Congratulations Voces Bolivianas for...

Neighborhood diaries: Young citizen journalists getting into the act

Feature31 January 2008
Nari Jibon: Bloggers discussing education, emancipation and poverty

Feature25 January 2008
Voces Bolivianas Featured on BBC's The World

Audio25 January 2008

Stories from January, 2008

The Paniagua Band

Hiper-Barrio30 January 2008

One thing you'll notice immediately if you visit the outlying community of La Loma in Medellín, Colombia is that nearly the entire community has the same three or four last...

Rayones by Jorge Jurado

Hiper-Barrio30 January 2008

Vandalism or a legitimate form of cultural expression? Is tagging a form of visual contamination or does the writing on the wall tell us something more about the communities we...

Social Media Outreach: Non-Profits are the Key

Feature21 January 2008

We often talk about extending the global conversation to every corner of the world with the available social media tools. The not-for-profit organizations, or the NGOs as they are known...

HiperBarrio's Citizen Journalists Bring Their Local Community Together

Feature21 January 2008

With just seven months of experience, the young and extremely motivated participants of HiperBarrio have blossomed into genuine citizen journalists. By rescuing their community's forgotten history, they have also helped...

An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media

Announcements16 January 2008

Rising Voices proudly announces the first in a series of outreach guides meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership. The first guide, An Introduction to...

Review of Rising Voices Projects

Feature12 January 2008

We have witnessed an incredibly sense of community take place among the participants of each of the first five Rising Voices projects. They have become more than just bloggers. In...

Voces Bolivianas: Leaping forward to the next round

Feature11 January 2008

The pilot program of the Voces Bolivianas project organized in El Alto city ended last November. It helped teach the use of citizen media tools to members of underrepresented groups...

Budding citizen journalists learn about their neighborhoods

Feature3 January 2008

Wishing a happy new year to the readers and followers of the Rising Voices. This week we will highlight the updates of the neighborhood diaries project which is growing citizen...