Rising Voices · December 2010

December, 2010

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Featured stories from December 2010

Rising Voices: 2010 In Review

2010 was an eventful year for Rising Voices and its community. The community bade farewell to the outgoing Director of Outreach, David Sasaki and welcomed the new Director Eduardo Ávila. In this post we look at some of the notable news of the grantees community we featured in the Rising...
Open Call for Participation in “Digital Natives With a Cause?” Workshop

Rising Voices is pleased to be partnering with CIS and HIVOS to organize the third regional workshop for the "Digital Natives with a Cause?' project to take place in Santiago, Chile on February 8-10, 2011. We are now accepting applications for participants from Latin America and the Caribbean. Deadline is...
Introducing the Rising Voices Community Survey

Through our new community survey, we would like to ask our readers what resources from Rising Voices that you have found especially helpful and what else you would like to see incorporated. We invite you to complete this short survey to help us better understand the needs of our community.

Rising Voices: 2010 In Review

Abidjan Blog Camps31 December 2010
Open Call for Participation in “Digital Natives With a Cause?” Workshop

Announcements16 December 2010
Introducing the Rising Voices Community Survey

Announcements13 December 2010

Stories from December, 2010

Nomad Green: Mongolia On The Brink Of Eco-Catastrophe

Nomad Green28 December 2010

The citizen journalists of Nomad Green are trying to raise awareness about the environmental degradation in their country targeting the Mongolian citizens and the global readers. They are reporting how...

Voces Bolivianas: The Future of the Young City of El Alto

Voces Bolivianas24 December 2010

The bloggers of the virtual community Jaqi Aru, which is spreading Aymara language in internet through creation of digital media contents, have started a meme titled "The Future of the...

Featured Blogger: Sara Abd Al-Maktari

Feature12 December 2010

Blogger Sara Abd Al-Maktari started as a participant in the first workshops offered by Rising Voices grantee Empowerment of Women Activists in Media Techniques (EWMAT) in Yemen. Since then, she...

HiperBarrio Won First Prize In Community Journalism

Feature4 December 2010

HiperBarrio from Colombia won the First Community Journalism Award given by Antioquia University in the category of Best Community Web platform. HiperBarrio will also receive 6 million Colombian Pesos along...

[Live Chat] Next Steps for the Blogging Positively Guide on December 2

Announcements1 December 2010

Join Rising Voices on December 2 for a live chat to revisit the "Blogging Positively" Guide, an online resource for individuals and organizations to learn how to use citizen media...

Citizen Media on World AIDS Day 2010

Aids Rights Congo1 December 2010

Citizen media continues to play a role in reducing stigma and bringing personal stories of those affected by HIV/AIDS to a wider audience. To commemorate World AIDS Day 2010, Rising...