Training the youth of 4 Initiative Group in diversity and usefulness of online communication in IT period.
The youth from towns and villages of Moldova and Transnistria will describe via Internet the life of their community. For this they will create and develop four blogs.
They will communicate without some barriers and they will organize eight Debates via Skype emphasizing the advantages of On-line communications.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Ribnita
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
The youths of 15-18 ages from the villages and towns of Moldova and Transnistria will participate in this project. Because of information war on the banks of Nistru the youth consider each other enemies. The most popular web site is odnoklassniki.ru, which is used not to discuss the interest but to comment the photos. Rural schools have outdated technologies which complicates the using of the modern technologies.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Young people will post in blogs the discussed information during the training and debates expanding in 4 communities the access to the methods and benefits of online communication. The youth will discuss the common problems of their age which don’t depend of the political situation. In blogs they’ll describe the events in which they participated, making exchange of experiences.
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.
The initiative group “Junior Forum” in Transnistria already maintain the contact between the Debate Club “Proveritas” from Transnistria and the Debate Club “Reziniana” from Moldova. This experience will be sent to initiative groups which activate in rural schools. Their attraction will be achieved thanks to the contacts maintained by the head of the Initiative Group “Junior Forum” with teachers of these schools.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
We considerate in our project will participate 12 members of the Debate Club “Proveritas” from Transnistria; 12 members of the Debate Club “Reziniana” from Moldova; 12 members of the initiative groups from 2 villages; there is a total of 36 direct participants. 4 schools from 2 towns and 2 villages will access indirectly the information about communication through the blogs.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
During the project the members of the Initiative Group “Forum Junior” from Transnistria, the trainer of the Debate Club “Rezininana” from Moldova and the teachers from those 2 rural schools will activate as volunteers.
Contact name
Cojocaru Grigore
Organization
The Initiative Group “Forum Junior”