Organizing a series of digital photography group walks where residents can document life in the Alpha Club community together and create an online Flickr photography exhibit. These pictures would also be uploaded on facebook and community members would have the opportunity to comment what they feel about each picture and what they would like to see different in the future. Workshops would be held to train community members on using facebook.
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?
Women farming, young men drinking during the day , young men sitting and chatting all day on the street corner, women selling by the street corner, children going to school barefoot.
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.
My organization works in this community and we have a very good relationship with the community members. We have also done several project here including the training of women in the use of the internet.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
We will be able to train 200 youth in the use of Facebook and Flicker.
Our office would provide continuous support to all community members. We will train an intern to work full time on this project. Apart from this, our staff will assist any member who comes to us seeking help.
Organization
African Centre for ICTs in Education and Development
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A question about the project: While photographs are a great way to tell stories, do the people in these farming communities have regular access to the internet? If not, how will they have regular access to update their facebook and flickr profiles and projects? If the income rate is low, will people feel motivated to spend time on the computer or taking pictures, instead of working in the field?
Hello Laura, thanks for the comment. The community is predominantly a farming community. However, the youths are the main targets here. This is actually a process that would foster dialogue and a sense of belonging in the community. Although the older farming women & men might not actually be able to use facebook and flickr, their kids can. And remember, they are the ones who really should start thinking about how they want their community to be in a few years time. also, they don’t have access to internet at home, but they do visit ‘Cyber Cafes’ regularly were they have access to the internet.