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17 February 2020
#MarginalizedAadhaar: Is India's Aadhaar enabling more exclusion in social welfare for marginalized communities?
India's biometric-based digital ID Aadhaar seems to bring more exclusion to marginalized communities rather than solving it.
30 January 2020
CGNet Swara is using Bluetooth to source content and share news with Indian villages
CGNet Swara is helping groups that have been largely ignored by mainstream media use Bluetooth to create content and share CGNet-produced news, music and other programmes with their communities.
13 May 2019
Meet Marisol Mena Antezana, host of the @ActLenguas Twitter account for May 13-19
Learn more about Marisol Mena Antezana, the host managing the @ActLenguas Twitter account during April 29 - May 5, 2019 to talk about her work with the Quechua language.
28 January 2019
Connecting the villages of the Suusamyr Valley in Kyrgyzstan
The Internet Society (ISOC) Kyrgyzstan Chapter is setting up a community network in the village of Suusamyr in Chui, the northernmost region in Kyrgyzstan.
4 March 2018
An Interactive ‘Garden’ Lets You Travel the World Through Radio Broadcasts
Since late 2016, the interactive Radio Garden project has allowed users to explore the world through radio broadcasts.
6 February 2018
Promoting a More Linguistically Diverse Internet Through the Mother Language Meme Challenge 2018
The Second Mother Language Meme Challenge will take place February 14-21, 2018 with an open invitation to anyone to create a meme in a minority, indigenous, or endangered language.
23 January 2017
Celebrate Linguistic Diversity Online With the Mother Language Meme Challenge
Celebrate linguistic diversity on the internet by creating a meme in an endangered, indigenous, minority or heritage language for the Mother Language Meme Challenge.
17 January 2017
The Rising Voices – NewsFrames Initiative is Hiring a Community Lead
Global Voices is seeking a Community Lead for a new initiative working with the issue of representation of marginalized communities in mainstream and social media.
12 January 2017
Study Will Explore Best Practices for Creating Free Knowledge in Indigenous Languages on Wikipedia
Who is promoting indigenous-language Wikipedia sites? What are their motivations? What challenges do they face? These are a few of the questions we will try to answer in a new...
14 June 2016
A Grandmother and Granddaughter in India Are Making Beautiful Media Together
"The whole world is learning, why should I not learn? I have a lot more to learn. It is important to walk along with the world."
2 February 2016
First Steps of Participatory Research Project: Indigenous Languages and Digital Media
Rising Voices is pleased to announce the launch of the participatory research project looking into the role and challenges of using digital media technologies to revitalize indigenous languages in Latin...
28 January 2016
Rising Voices Welcomes Five New Indigenous Language Digital Activism Grantees
Rising Voices congratulates the five winners from Argentina, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua that will receive microgrants and mentoring for their indigenous language digital activism projects.
2 August 2014
Mapping for Niger Turns One, Community Reflects
The Mapping for Niger grantee project celebrates its first anniversary with all its contributors, who reflect on what participating in the project has meant to them.
