Rising Voices · August 2008

August, 2008

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Featured stories from August 2008

Creative Commons and the culture of sharing

Creative Commons licenses enable you to share your creative works with others and retain their commercial value as well. In this post we will discuss why the culture of sharing is important and ways to use cc-licensed contents.
Neighbourhood Diaries’ Open Box of Poetry

Many of the same Calcutta-based youth who were trained as citizen journalists in the Neighbourhood Diaries project are also featured in the most recent issue of Kalam's annual anthology of poetry, "Open Box", which as been made available here as an eBook.
Blogging the Dream: Battling Mental Health Stigmas

In the city of Câmpulung Moldovenesc, in North Eastern Romania, the Orizonturi Foundation will be creating a Blogging Club in the upcoming months in hopes of changing their community’s perceptions of those with mental health problems. Their project, “Blogging the Dream,” is one of the six new health-focused citizen media...

Creative Commons and the culture of sharing

Feature28 August 2008
Neighbourhood Diaries’ Open Box of Poetry

Feature24 August 2008
Blogging the Dream: Battling Mental Health Stigmas

Blogging the Dream23 August 2008

Stories from August, 2008

REPACTED: Learning to Blog

Feature21 August 2008

We have some updates from the Rising Voices grantee REPACTED. In the last week of July REPACTED had a workshop on report writing and blogging in their project office in...

Neighbourhood Diaries: Training Citizen Journalists in Calcutta's Marginalized Communities

Feature19 August 2008

Neighbourhood Diaries, a pilot project of the local NGO Kalam, is training marginalized youth in Calcutta's working class neighborhoods how to become citizen journalists. Through their poems and interviews we...

Nari Jibon: Making a difference

Feature14 August 2008

In this post we will experience Bangladesh through the eyes of Nari Jibon bloggers, learn more about some of the people behind Nari Jibon and learn how the project is...

FOKO: A dream progress

Feature9 August 2008

The FOKO Madagascar team is progressing with a lot of zeal and enthusiasm in arranging blog outreach workshops for the youths in Madagascar to make their dream come true.