Proposals Mexico
Mexico: Digital Indigenous Knowledge Project
This project is going to empower indigenous youngs to keep their customs and traditions through revaluing information of their communities since they will be allowed to invite people around the world to visit their towns.We will encourage youngs to use social networking in their daily live through a digital media basics workshop, social media contest and colaborative work.At the end,they will have tools for a base of tourism platform.
Mexico: Everybody Knows our Lives and Projects
Train 10 people from different organizations and social initiatives in disseminating their daily lives related to their social activities through digital. Training will cover from the creative use of digital camera, a basic digital literacy workshop, Workshop brief editorial, documentary storytelling workshop video blog implementation. I hope to achieve that through ICT, people spread linking their daily lives with their activities.
Mexico: All Together Against Climate Change
An Environmental Education program against climate change is running at schools in a city where the temperature through the year is too high. Students want to share their experience to the community and with others schools to be able to invite them to work against climate change and interchange innovative ideas through a blog, photographies and video.
Mexico: Environmental Video-journalism Workshop
The aim is to create a network of digital video producers that develop stories of the environment and, preferably incorporating elements of ancient Mayan culture. The intention is to train 15 young people in the use of these technologies and build a visual memory of our environment, use, protection and services. The results will be micro-video stories that are disseminated through web supported by our networks and alliances.
Mexico: Achileos, Moros y Cristianos
The project is a documentary collection of religious festivals and outs of the localities of the municipality of San Martin of the Pyramids, through the use of citizen media such as videos, pictures, blogs, social networks, among others, this will be done by girls and poor children who have no access to ICT for rescue and cultural value of their traditions.
Mexico: Young Valladolid: Narrators of Local Life
The project goals are to train 30 high school students in communication ethics and the use of digital technology and to provide the neccesary equipment to make that possible. College students will aid as editors for high school students at the “TeleMágico 30″, a tv station and creative space and a goverment facility with free internet access and public computers. We hope to give the youths here a chance to learn and to speak to the world.
Mexico: Children ñahñus Change Spokespersons
Our project is to spread through citizen media, animations, stories, puppet plays and capsules made by childrens ñahñus (Otomi) about issues of gender inequality and addictions in communities of El Bothé and San Ildefonso the Amealco municipality in the state of Querétaro.
Mexico: Digital Education Nodes
Youth groups from different places and cultures in Mexico are nodes of the Tlalana network www.tlalana.org.mx. They take action based on collective learning and experience exchange to solve local issues such as environmental problems, unemployment and violence. We want to train such nodes in audio editing, blogs and social networks to achieve greater visibility and facilitate their documenting and sharing capabilities between projects.
Mexico: Audio-visual Record of the Zapotec Language
This project Involves recording and audio-visual collective by young Zapotec. Zapotec of the Sierra Sur region of Oaxaca, Mexico, by capturinge very day images of the community and its description intheir own oral language with translation in to Spanish by using OjoVoz, an application installed on mobile phones and real-time Such publication of content on a website (Spanish-Zapotec).
Mexico: Seeing Through the Eyes of my Grandparents
Shade coffee plantations are a reservoir of biological and cultural diversity. Families, usually work together cultivating the land. Therefore, this people have a spiritual, physical, social and cultural connection to their land. Accordingly with this, our project aims to promote the dialogue and an interchanges of knowledge between young and adults in a coffee-growing region, to rescue the bicultural knowledge.
