Latest posts by Laura Morris
Bloggies Award Open for Nominations
The 2014 Weblog awards are open for submission!
The Amp #3: Dec 8 – 20
The Rising Voices bi-weekly newsletter is out! Check out all the links, opportunities, and articles you may have missed...
Say What?! Website Collects Hate Speech for Genocide Prevention
Hatebase is crowdsourcing and organizing hate speech by location, type, language, and when it was last used, in the hopes to help identify increasing tensions among groups... one of the indicators for future genocides.
A Living Documentary: Sharing Testimonies of Forced Sterilisation
In the 1990s, many indigenous men and women in Peru were subjected to a forced sterilisation campaign; the Quipu project is working with local communities to create a way to make these stories heard through a combination of low- and hi-tech, online and off.
Technology for Peacebuilding: an Online Database
The Build Peace Database aims to document crossovers between peacebuilding and new technologies around the world, focusing on communications, networking and gaming technologies.
We Take the Internet With Us, Wherever We Go
Recently presented with a satellite broadband terminal, Rising Voices will now be able to take the Internet into regions with little or no connectivity, opening up new opportunities and possibilities to teach and share online.
The Toolbox: 16 New Ways for Story-making
Are you a visual person (and do you want to tell your story that way)? Or do you need to be alerted the next time a report comes out on the president of Moldova? Here are some new tools to help you research your next story, and new platforms (like timelines and interactive images) for easily and clearly presenting information.
#teachtheweb: Encouraging Web Literacy Around the World
The Mozilla Foundation is creating teaching resources to increase web literacy. Laura Hilliger, one of their team, says that learning how to code and understanding the internet, even without a good internet connection, is a key part of education today.
Surprising Expansion: One Workshop Unexpectedly Goes Global
What happens when you put your local workshop course online? You might end up with global participants...
New Voices on Blog Action Day 2013
Past and present Rising Voices grantee projects contributed to Blog Action Day, a global event where bloggers from around the world write about the same topic on October 16, 2013. These projects joined thousands of other bloggers to share their perspectives on the topic of Human Rights in Brazil, Niger, and Colombia.
We're Around the World! Photos from the RV Micrograntees
The Rising Voices micrograntee winners from around the world have been documenting their projects as they progress. We chose some images from their flickr streams, Facebook pages, and websites, sharing the work they have been doing over the past few months.
MOOCs Galore
Everywhere we look there seems to be another announcement for a cool MOOC course. Here is a selection of a few that we would love to take...
Wikimonuments: Cultural Heritage, Your Choice!
What would you identify as your local monument? Wikimedia Commons' annual photo competition WikiLovesMonuments has come up with some surprising answers and some incredible pictures, allowing community members to identify and share online what - to them - is really monumental.
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‘New Tactics’ Makes a New Digital Toolkit for Activism Strategy
The organisation New Tactics has published an online guide for new and seasoned activists who want to learn more about how to improve their strategic and technical capacities.
A Do-It-Yourself Code for Ethical Journalism
Codes of ethical journalism aren't one-size-fits-all. The Online News Association is creating guidelines to help new journalism projects and journalists find what works best.
Tour Guides Only Tell You One Version of a City's Story. This New App Lets Residents Tell You Theirs
Voicemap lets you listen to personal stories about the places you visit. You won't find these stories in the usual tourism guides.
Football, Building Social Cohesion in Niger
Sports – and especially football – can be an ideal vehicle to reinforce social cohesion in Nigerien communities scattered across the country's wide territory.
Global Voices Meetup in Kampala, Uganda
The next Global Voices Meetup is scheduled for November 23 in Kampala, Uganda, bringing together community members to share ideas.
