Proposals from February 19, 2013
USA: A Circle of Stories
A CIRCLE OF STORIES will share the personal,family and traditional stories of Indigenous people through short videos made with new media,smartphones,tablets and digital video.Facilitating inter-cultural dialogue and increasing community interactions,these online stories will deepen public understanding of Native Americans as multi-dimensional individuals.
Pakistan: Women Right Media Training.
The women and the youth groups of the marginalized communities need to be helped in saying their voices on the issues of their domestic slavery,education barriers,health issues,sanitation,safe water and gender inequity along with financial crisis. It needs to be supported by the human rights groups, the social media working talents to voice for their rights in and the globally by educating and training them to use all sort of communications,IEC.
Kenya: Baraka Center: Women's Voices Rising
WCI has opened the first (of many) Women’s Centers in Nairobi Kenya. Baraka Center provides a safe place where women living in slums can learn to read and write, develop businesses, learn and practice leadership skills, and productively address the violence directed against them. In three months, 374 women registered at the Center. It’s an effective, innovative integration of programs that meet the diverse and related needs of poor women.
Pakistan: Hundreds for Dozens
The proposed idea is to initiate a printed publication, reflecting a pictorial representation of the victims of WAR ON TERROR. For more than a decade, unremitting conflict exists in the northern tribal areas of Pakistan & Afghanistan, among the militant groups and Law enforcing agencies from all around the world. Hundreds of guiltless have lost their lives literally and figuratively along with dozens of blameworthy.
Nepal: Empower
The project intends to reduce stigma and discrimination amongst LGBTI in far western Nepal by providing technical support from Blue Diamond Society so that they could fight for the rights and have inclusive status in the region.
USA: ROUND DANCE CINEMA
Round Dance Cinema will fuse the dynamic stories of Indigenous people with the sharing capabilities of online media.This project will fuse short videos created by Native Americans using smartphones,digital cameras and internet into an online, intertribal film festival. Creating these short films will increase communication between tribal people, while augmenting public awareness about First Nations people as multi-dimensional individuals.
USA: The Way We Live Now
Mainstream media relegates North American Native people to the past, as stoic images in old photographs or stereotypes in “Western” films. As a Creek/Cherokee woman,I meet people who are surprised that Native Americans still exist. “The Way We Live Now” will help Indigenous people to create short videos and place them online in a curated online venue that displays Natives interacting with daily life in modern ways and dispels stereotypes.
Mexico: Rescuing Cultures, their Knowledge, Traditions and Customs
Rescuing Cultures is a project focused on teaching and design strategies for indigenous communities Altos Region of Chiapas Tsotsil-Tseltal so that these indigenous groups to share via social networks and blogs their knowledge and traditional knowledge, customs, traditions, worldviews and how to live with natural resources. This project aims to show everyone the way of life of indigenous cultures, but is told by the main actors.
Kenya: Zauti Zetu
Zauti zetu is an online platform for rural youth family in Homa-Bay County,Kenya to share their life experiences and stories, discuss on issues affecting their development, engage in community awareness and services efforts, gather news about occurrences in their surrounding and obtain resources and support on issues of concern to them.
Nigeria: Using ICTs for Enhancement of Democracy in Niger Delta
Raising awareness and building understanding of (i) the potential of ICTs, particularly in the context of the vast numbers of people who are now able to connect in some way through mobile phones in Nigeria; (ii) democratic principles and practice; and (iii) the potential of ICTs for advancing democracy in Nigeria. Our activities shall include Workshops/consultations on how strategic communications and the use of ICTs can enhance democracy.
