Rising Voices · April 2010

April, 2010

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Featured Blogger: Yesenia Corrales

For the past three years, the Medellín-based project HiperBarrio project has focused on shining a light on different neighborhoods around the city. However, it has been the hard work of the project coordinators and the new bloggers, who have added life to the project. This is another interview with one...
Ceasefire Liberia: Getting Up Close And Personal With The Bloggers

Thanks to some recent interviews we can learn more about some of the bloggers of Ceasefire Liberia, a grantee of Rising Voices, and their works. According to journalist cum blogger NatNyuan-Bayjay, the work of the Ceasefire Liberia bloggers is “helping shine a light on some of the social, political, and...
FOKO: Can ICT Bring A Solution To Overcome Despair?

Madagascar is still undergoing political turmoils and closure of business. The consequence is that the economic conditions of a lot of Malagasy people worsened. Many had lost their jobs, and were forced out of their rental homes. The recent arrival of the optical fiber submarine cable (EASSY) in Madagascar unfurls...

Featured Blogger: Yesenia Corrales

Feature27 April 2010
Ceasefire Liberia: Getting Up Close And Personal With The Bloggers

Ceasefire Liberia25 April 2010
FOKO: Can ICT Bring A Solution To Overcome Despair?

Feature23 April 2010

Stories from April, 2010

Ask Rising Voices Your Application Questions

Announcements19 April 2010

As part of Rising Voices' outreach to potential applicants for our latest round of microgrant funding for citizen media projects in Egypt, which will be due on Friday, April 30,...

Aids Rights Congo: Using ICT To Combat Violence Against Women

Aids Rights Congo19 April 2010

During March 31 - April 03, 2010 AZUR Development concluded a training workshop as a part of the FTX (Feminist Tech Exchange) program supported by the Association for Progressive Communications...

Abidjan Blog Camps: For An Union Of Online Content Producers in Ivory Coast

Abidjan Blog Camps16 April 2010

Members of the Rising Voices grantee Abidjan Blog Camps participated in the Abidjan Barcamps 2010 in March. In that event its project leader Theophile Kouamouo advocated for an union of...

Rising Voices Seeks Micro-Grant Proposals for Citizen Media Outreach in Egypt

Announcements14 April 2010

Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices Online, in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, is now accepting project proposals from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or individuals for microgrant funding...

أصوات صاعدة تمول مشاريع متناهية الصغر لدعم صحافة المواطن في مصر

Announcements14 April 2010

أصوات صاعدة تمول مشاريع متناهية الصغر لدعم صحافة المواطن في مصر يقوم موقع أصوات صاعدة، جزء من موقع أصوات عالمية على الإنترنت، بالتعاون مع مؤسسة هنرش بل، بقبول طلبات مشاريع...

EWAMT: The Start Of The 2nd Phase In Taizz City

Feature12 April 2010

The second phase of the ‘Empowerment of Women Activists in Media Techniques (EWAMT)‘ project started in Taizz city, a major city in Yemen located at the Southwestern highlands at an...

Hiperbarrio Expands To Three New Libraries In Medellin

Feature7 April 2010

According to an agreement between the EPM Foundation Network and HiperBarrio from Colombia, activities in 3 new communities in 3 libraries of Medellín (Villatina, La Esperanza and EPM) were started....

Featured Blogger: Nat Nyuan-Bayjay

Ceasefire Liberia5 April 2010

"Nat's work changes lives in Liberia and beyond and is a constant reminder to me of why citizen media is important," is how Ruthie Ackerman, the founder of Ceasefire Liberia...

Voces Bolivianas: Ushahidi Platform For Election Reporting

Feature4 April 2010

During the Bolivian general elections on December 6, 2009 a number of Bolivian netizens used Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, Flickr, Youtube, Twitter and Facebook to share their perspectives...