Stories from June, 2009
EWAMT: Learning To Blog To Serve The Community
Rising Voices grantee Empowerment of Yemeni Women Activists in New Media Techniques (EWAMT) has organized two more workshops in June. Apart from teaching the participants how to blog they were...
Drop-In Center: A Reason to Celebrate
Drop-In Center, the Ukrainian organization uniting people living with drug addictions, has cause for celebration. The Ministry of Health of Ukraine has allowed participants of substitution therapy programs to receive...
FOKO: Expansion And Collaborations
FOKO has completed its expansion efforts in Northern Madagascar. The SAVA region and Antsiranana are now part of the FOKO network. FOKO is helping to set up new media facilities...
Voces Bolivianas: Honored For their Hard Work
The members of Voces Bolivianas (Bolivian Voices) are delighted to win an honorary mention in the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica awards. This international recognition will certainly boost their enthusiasm towards...
Ceibal Jam!: Creating Local Applications for Educational Needs in Uruguay
Ceibal Jam! is a community of volunteer programmers, instructors, and technologists who have all come together to develop educational applications for the XO laptops that are now in the hands...
Making Uruguay's 300,000 Laptops Count – Part I
Engineering a single laptop to serve the educational needs of young students throughout the developing world was probably the easiest piece of the puzzle. Helping teachers incorporate the new machines...
Public Fund “Mental Health”: First Steps to Blogging
Public Fund "Mental Health" conducted it first blogging training session in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Project leader Nadezhda Vladimirova describes the challenges and opportunities of the new blogging project.
Nomad Green: The First Workshops
The first four workshops of the Rising Voices grantee Nomad Green were completed last month. About 60 participants were introduced to citizen media tools like blog, flickr, picasa, Youtube etc....
