Proposals from March, 2013
Finalist – Zimbabwe: Voices from the Deep End
This project seeks to use new media to raise awareness about the San Community in Zimbabwe. The San are a group of people are on the verge of extinction. They...
Finalist – Mauritania: Popular Memory (MemoRIM)
MemoRim is about regrouping, documenting and making electronically available the culture, traditions, languages, life style… of old Mauritanian society, By contacting and working with local communities in 4 corners of...
Finalist – Mexico: Preserving and Promoting the Mayan Language
To preserve, promote, and conserve the Maya Yucateca language among adults, children and young people, as it is the latter who have lost interest in communicating and expressing themselves in...
Finalist – Uganda: Female Documentary Film Training on Women Advocacy
“One out of three women will experience Violence in her life time”! Women around the world are subjected to violence in many forms that has reduced opportunities for women to...
Finalist: The Cambodian Grassroots Social Media Project
The proposal is to develop a social media training program for community-based organizations and grassroots activists working on human rights in Cambodia, with the long-term goal of increasing the sharing...
Finalist – Cameroon: We Know, Let the World Know Too
This idea plans to mobilize, train and equip 10 youths with skills and materials for grass root social media utilization for blogging in Bangem sub division of Cameroon. It focuses...
Finalist – Afghanistan: Kabul Beat — Far Away from War
Kabul Beat is an online magazine in two national languages of Afghanistan Dari & Pashto & English, that aims to share stories from different and undermined provinces of Afghanistan. Kabul...
Peru: Expressions of Indigenous Contemporary Art Network
KapaqLab is a Peruvian collective that is impulsing a project called Native Peoples’ House. Through its website, which will be a digital space for meeting and exhibition of “expressions of...
Bolivia: Exteme Tarija
A project that shows the need to form active communities that can promote its heritage, and based on the participation of the community members in the town of Tarija. Tourism...
Peru: Promoting Communication Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Develop the capacities of indigenous communicators to produce eight 10-minute podcasts, in four native languages, on communication rights of indigenous peoples. The training will also enable them disseminate those materials...
