Rising Voices · June 2008

June, 2008

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Public Health Projects to Use Citizen Media to Empower Community Voices

Rising Voices and Open Society Institute's Health Media Initiative are happy to announce the six newest health-focused citizen media outreach projects. We received over 110 proposals from health activists and organizations based in over 50 different countries. The six selected grantees represent the most innovative applications of citizen media tools...
Rising Voices Trailer

It has been one year since Rising Voices awarded its first round of five outreach grants to project in Sierra Leone, Colombia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, and India. Those first five grantees where then joined by five more projects in December, 2007. Today, as we are about to announce our newest round...
Blogging Since Infancy: Engaging the community to build new media applications for OLPC laptops

The OLPC (Hundred Dollar) laptops currently miss many applications to help students learn and participate in the classroom. The Plan Ceibal (Blogging Since Infancy) of Uruguay, a Rising Voices grantee arranged a programming “jam” to get local programmers involved in developing innovative applications for the OLPC laptops including new media...

Public Health Projects to Use Citizen Media to Empower Community Voices

Announcements28 June 2008
Rising Voices Trailer

Announcements28 June 2008
Blogging Since Infancy: Engaging the community to build new media applications for OLPC laptops

Feature24 June 2008

Stories from June, 2008

A Podcast About La Loma by HiperBarrio

Feature21 June 2008

ConVerGentes, the San Javier La Loma-based group of young journalists who form part of HiperBarrio, have started a podcast in Spanish. Have a listen to learn more about their community,...

REPACTED: Young and ready to change the society

Feature19 June 2008

Kenyan youths face a low life expectancy because of extreme poverty, poor health care and an AIDS epidemic. Some of them are internally displaced and took refuge in camps after...

Blogging for a social cause

Feature14 June 2008

Why do we blog? Because we want to express ourselves, to be heard, to learn about others, to augment networking, and most importantly to enhance a new social imagination, engage...

Voces Bolivianas Featured in Vamos Magazine

Digital Media10 June 2008

Rising Voices aims not just to get new communities actively participating in the conversational web, but also to introduce their voices to mainstream media outlets so that, for once, under-represented...

Prison Diaries Show the Reality of Life Behind Bars in Jamaica

Feature4 June 2008

When thinking of Kingston, Jamaica, blogging and podcasting are far from the first words to come to mind. "Murder capital of the world", sure. Bob Marley and reggae music, of...

[Video] Prison Diaries in Jamaica

Podcast4 June 2008

SET Director Kevin Wallen and volunteer Caleen Deidritch explain the history, process, and objectives of Prison Diaries, a project which teaches inmates at two of Kingston's correctional facilities how to...