Proposals Microblogs from March, 2013
Tanzania: Promoting Governance and Accountability in Development Management
To promote local governance and accountability in development management and advocacy rationale use of government budgets to achieve poverty reduction targets in Kibaha district, Tanzania. The community people (80) from rural and urban areas will be trained on pro-poor development, citizen journalism, data collection and analysis and advocacy journalism. District council leaders (10) will be trained on accountability.
Argentina: Ñaqpiolec Tobas – The Future is Now
The project seeks to create appropriate virtual spaces equipped with the latest communication technologies for mass use such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and Internet. We hope that the children and teenagers learn about the correct use of this technology by making known the activities and other information regarding their rights and their community's culture.
Egypt: Arab Foundation for New Media
The initiative aims to support and consolidate the new media in the Arab world through the Arab youth training on how to best use social media to support various issues. The initiative also seeks through its social platform website that allows them to post news, reports, and multi-media. The initiative also aims to build a large network of new media covering all over the Arab world for the exchange of experiences and benefits .
Brazil: The Speech Quilombola – River of Black Drum
This project aims to train and empower 20 young Maroons of the city of New Airão. These young people will be trained in the use of digitial video and use the Internet network to keep the videos on the network. The terinamento will also discuss cultural and social characteristics of this ethnic group, aiming to support the creation of digital videos.
Colombia: Systems Lab for Indigenous Resguardo
To acquire equipment for the systems lab for practice and the use of ICT technology working with children and teenagers of the Indigenous Resguardo of Rionegro in the Iquira Municipality, Huila Department, Colombia with the goal of the search and development of their potential in the use and control in the use of ICTs that allow to be at the same level with the rest of the world and the use of free time.
Moldova: Listen to Those who Cannot Themself Ask for Help
It is expected to: create and launch a website, create groups in social networks, train a group of activists’ methods of promotion of sites and pages on social networks, create the movie didicated to problems of homeless animals and problem of cruelty to animals (shooting of homeless animals) and show it on local channels, post this video on youtube and in groups in social networks to draw the attention of civil society and authorities.
India: Strengthening Women Human Rights Defenders in Human Rights Monitoring
Human rights defenders already engaged in monitoring women rights violations in remote areas among marginalized communities will be strengthened on the use of mobile phones and internet in tracking HRVs, documenting evidences, filing complaints with appropriate duty bearers. 30 HRDs of Odisha will be provided with skills of using mobiles-phones, camera, videography, internet 5 HRDs will be facilitated to use mobile-phone and internet
Moldova: You are Not Alone – Reflection, Dialog and Voice
This project will unite youth across diverse cultures to tell their stories & stories of their communities. Students will be exposed to the range of applications which make cross-cultural exchange possible, such as google+, Twitter, YouTube, & Voxer. Students will be exposed to technologies that will enable them to document their experiences, i.e. Podcasts, Prezi, & PowerPoint. Youth will share their stories through new media.
Hungary: Development of Local Stories in Budapest
Our website is called Jarokelo.hu; here Budapest (Hungary) citizens can report any problem with a photo to their local municipality (eg. potholes, broken street plates etc.). We would like to introduce a mobile application to the website to make the submission of the reports easier. In addition to this we would like to hold two workshops (one for journalists, one for citizen journalists/bloggers) to help the creation of local stories.
Nigeria: Lifesavers Club of Ajegunle
The project aims to build a new culture of community service among young people living in Nigeria’s most popular slum, Ajegunle. We hope to show them a new way to give back and save lives by giving blood while showcasing their works using various social media tools and telling the world their story. It is hoped that this project will introduce these young people to the wondrous tools available to them to reach the world and tell their stories.
