Proposals from February 24, 2013
Tanzania: Youth Online Project
The project aiming to teach Youth from Micheweni Rural District of Pemba Island on the use new information technology for their development agendas.
Tunisia: “Sout el tounesya” the Voice of the Tunisian Woman
This initiative is a citizen journalism training project that aims to empower women through digital media and online journalism.I mean by online journalism,blogging in its main forms:articles,videos/audio and photojournalism. The main objective is to give a voice to these women and empower them to advocate for their rights and their local communities through citizen journalism.They will be trained to create blogs and mentored to train other women
Morocco: Civic Journalism Promotion
A Media project that seeks to increase Social and political awareness about the importance of giving the opportunity to Marginalized people to be integrated in society and put them in the system of change to be a model of Change Makers for others by inviting them and leting them be decision makers throught video telling and producing short Documentaries of their experiences on internet.
Jamaica: Safe Kids Project
To heighten the awareness of the general population about the issue of child safety by utilizing social media, photography, poster creations, video presentations and docudramas. Ten (10) adults which will include teachers and parents and 60 children between the ages of 10 and 14 will be trained to use these tools to advocate for Child Safety.
Colombia: Ecología Ambulante (Ambulant Ecology)
Create a new voice from transdisciplinary knowledge and the everyday experience of rural children, through edu-communication methodology based on open-free models of collective creation to develop artistic and research practices, related to the concept of local territory with a common and amusing language. These practices will be communicated with virtual and analogical media, that emerge from interactions between diverses communities
Pakistan: Connecting to the world of knowledge
New generation is key to change of the abusive culture to women in form of honour killing, forced and minor marriages, marital rape and domestic violence to disfigure a women body. Connecting the youth to social media will help to sensitize and educate them to know about the women rights as human rights.The proposed project is to bring about a behaviour change through youth advocacy on women rights to end the violence against women.
Argentina: Promoting economic inclusion through citizen media
Training on citizen media for economic disadvantage population working within the informal economy to link them with possible buyers and the local community in Rosario. The training will encourage them to promote their products, speak about their stories and realities, their survival experiences and their neighborhoods. All of this will be disseminated through a blog updated by the beneficiaries (through photos, videos, mapping, etc.)
Indonesia: Hotshot
Community village women have capability to being part of change especially after conflict and related electoral situation in Aceh today but they but less of knowledge about technology, sometimes some local media coverage often proclaim the unbalanced and disproportionate which discriminate women, so it requires a community of journalists who can use audio visual technology correctly, distribute news to wider society in order to tell the real news
Ecuador: Open Journalism with Open Licenses and Technologies
Many initiatives of community and citizen journalism aim to strengthen people, their rights and liberties, but that is impossible with private technologies and under a “copyright” perspective. That’s why we want to train communicators, journalists and teachers in the use of free technologies and open licenses. The training will begin with a virtual part, followed by an in-person part to produce stories of citizen participation.
Bolivia: Ser Diversos nos Hace Iguales
The main target is to make heard the voice of the youth which has been traditionally marginalized, like rural youngsters with different sexual orientation and gender identity, African descendants, disabled youth and others, by creating blogs and social networks platforms where they can share their needs and proposals to the decision makers and the whole society, to generate a equality movement and will try to influence public politics.
