An idea about establishing a website, allowing users to edit, translate, and post official news from the world. So people can know the news from different point of views. Obviously, different countries have different viewpoints on the same news. Once we can get the news from different places, translated into different languages by users, then we can get a clearer picture of the fact, judging by ourselves with diverse sources of information.
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Taipei and Taichung City, Taiwan
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
World/Local News:
Users insert the original link/sources of the news/contents. Also to make sure the news/contents is released by reliable sources/media.
Once the news/contents is published, other users/readers can translate into their own languages, or add another sources/links of this news to let people see a single news from diverse perspectives.
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.
Building a platform to collect the news from the local or the world to allow users/readers to translate, comment, share, or even add with more sources to provide diverse viewpoints to a single news.
Also divided the reporters into groups (i.e. Asia, Europe, America…) to recruit and lead their volunteers for help.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
10 main project coordinators.
1. Main Editor
2. Website & Database Engineer
3. Local News Reporters – Asia
4. Local News Reporters – Europe
5. Local News Reporters – North America
6. Local News Reporters – Central & South America
7. Local News Reporters – Middle East
8. Local News Reporters – Africa
Each local news team will train and recruit for 10 volunteers and/or participants
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
The connection of Rising Voices fans and supporters around the world to help update their local news to translate into their own local languages.
