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Telecommunications Recommendations for Rural Areas – an Update from Dizha Kieru

An update from Rhizomatica on Dizha Khieru in Mexico, as well as a report from the recent World Telecommunication Development Conference in Dubai including a new recommendation to recognize the lack of policies to connect rural and remote populations.
Nominations Out For The BOBs

The Best of the Blogs award nominations have been posted online. You can sign on today and vote for your favorites. Here is a sampling of some of the submissions from around the world.
Winning a Grant, Growing a Community: Orsolya Jenei

To get a sense of how it was to be a micrograntee, we asked Orsolya Jenei, the lead for the Mapping for Niger project, to share some of her experiences about the process. The project was a recipient in 2013 and is ongoing.

19 May 2014
Telecommunications Recommendations for Rural Areas – an Update from Dizha Kieru

Written by Peter Bloom · Digital Media
7 April 2014
Nominations Out For The BOBs

Written by Laura Morris · Digital Media
25 March 2014
Winning a Grant, Growing a Community: Orsolya Jenei

Written by Orsolya Jenei · Feature

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4 March 2014

CLC 2014: Coding for Language Communities

Written by Rachael Petersen · Feature

"Can the Subaltern code?" CIDLeS Summer School 2014: Coding for Language Communities, a conference that aims to give everyone the ability to engage digital spaces in their mother tongues.

28 February 2014

Indigenous Tweets #IMLD14 Roundup

Written by Kevin Scannell · Digital Media

Last Friday was International Mother Language Day, a celebration of linguistic and diversity. This year Rising Voices and Indigenous Tweets encouraged people to tweet in their native language using the...

26 February 2014

Have You Applied Yet? Sign Up Your Blog – It's the BOBs!

Written by Laura Morris · Announcements

Deutsche Welle's yearly contest is open again to bloggers writing in fourteen different languages and multiple categories. The contest - Best of Online Activism - aims to promote freedom of...

20 February 2014

[StoryMaker] Privilege Musvanhiri of Mobile Community Zimbabwe

Written by Eddie Avila · Interview

At the StoryMaker Camp held in January in Amman, Jordan, we spoke with Privilege Musvanhiri of Mobile Community Zimbabwe. The citizen journalism project took part in a training using the...

19 February 2014

[StoryMaker] Vesna Dolinšek of Lam Echaml in Tunisia

Written by Eddie Avila · Storymaker

At the StoryMaker Camp held in January in Amman, Jordan, we spoke with Vesna Dolinšek of Lam Echaml in Tunisia, one of the local coordinators of the project, who shared...

18 February 2014

Celebrating a Project Well-Mapped

Written by Laura Morris · Feature

As the current phase of the Mapping for Niger project draws to an end, the Rising Voices micrograntee celebrated with a ceremony at the University of Niamey.

[StoryMaker] Mustafa El-Ani of the Independent Media Centre Kurdistan

Written by Eddie Avila · Feature

At the StoryMaker Camp held in January in Amman, Jordan, we spoke with Mustafa El-Ani of the Independent Media Centre Kurdistan, one of the local coordinators of the project, who...

17 February 2014

[StoryMaker] Emad Shenouda of Al Sawt al Hurr in Egypt

Written by Eddie Avila · Feature

At the StoryMaker Camp held in January in Amman, Jordan, we spoke with Emad Shenouda of Al Sawt al Hurr in Egypt, one of the local coordinators of the project,...

12 February 2014

[Arab Bloggers 14] Dina El Hawary of Meedan

Written by Eddie Avila · Audio

Another participant we spoke to at the Arab Bloggers Meeting was Dina El Hawary from Meedan. She provided an overview of the platform and training for the Checkdesk project that...

10 February 2014

[Arab Bloggers 14] Bukeni Waruzi of Witness

Written by Eddie Avila · Audio

During the recent Arab Bloggers Meeting (AB14) held in Amman, Jordan, we spoke with Bukeni Waruzi of Witness, who spoke about his role in AB14, and provided some words of...

8 January 2014

It's “Nerve-racking”! Getting our Storytellers Offline (and Back On Again)

Written by Laura Morris · Audio

Transom is an online resource for storytellers, mostly audio-based but delving into the world of visual digital media as well. They recent put on a six-week online workshop - based...

13 December 2013

Taking Back the Tech: Using Wikipedia to Counter Violence Against Women

Written by Lakshmi Sarah · Case Studies

The first Hack4Change meetup in India included a Wikipedia edit-a-thon, expanding articles on violence against women, and collaborating on data-driven digital media projects related to women’s rights.