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.)
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
We will create a blog that will gather their own personal microblogs. They will speak about their survival strategies, their community interaction mechanisms, how they elaborate their products, the stories behind their own entreprise, how microcredits or running their own companies have had an impact in their lives, the culture patterns affecting their communities/neighborhoods and product releases.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
Our organisation has a large experience delivering technological trainings. We've already contacted Fundación Síntesis (an NGO dealing with microcredit initiatives) and the Rosario Subsecretary for social economy. Every year we bring volunteers from Europe (through the european voluntary service) that will be trained and assigned to different activities within this project. Since last year, Agenda 21 works within the Adobe Youth Voices Program.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
We'll train not less than 50 participants. Their participation is already guaranteed because we've been working with many informal economy-related organizations for a long time. Particularly with Fundación Síntesis, when the participant receives a microcredit aid, s/he is obliged to take certain courses, and this will be one of them. Fundación Síntesis alone has +250 participants and 7 microcredit banks. “La Toma”, another NGO, has 50 workers.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
First of all, visibility. Your platform is an excellent way to disseminate our initiative and the beneficiaries’ stories.
Networking and exchange of successful stories with other people/organizations in similar situations is also very important. Benchmarking is also another key element of why we would like to be part of the Rising Voices community.
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Hope we are lucky and we can keep helping young people getting empowered by using ICT. And we would also feel glad to get in contact and receive feedback & info from other peers from abroad.
Let´s keep in touch.