Proposals Citizen Journalism
Finalist – Youth Stories from Bhutan's Maturing Democracy
College-aged youth involved in Media Clubs will be trained to act as citizen journalists by producing audio podcasts. These podcasts will educate Bhutanese about democracy, explore ways to engage citizens...
Finalist – Mexico: The Plums, Letters and Voices in Resistance
Do a community journalism workshop in “El Ciruelo, Oaxaca” to form a community group dedicated to collecting and disseminating information to the community in their original language Mixteco using tools...
Finalist – Hungary: Stories of Passersby (Járókelők Történetei)
Our website is called Jarokelo.hu; the name means ‘passerby’ in the Hungarian language. On the website Budapest (Hungary) citizens can report problems with photos to their local municipality. We plan...
Finalist – Myanmar (Burma): Collab Space for CJs
Despite extremely low Internet penetration rate, more Myanmar people are starting to use social networks and become “netizens”. However, limited knowledge on privacy and access to network, especially in smaller...
Finalist – Cameroon: Questioning Public Authorities Through Citizen Media
The project seeks to empower survivors of the 1986 Lake Nyos Gas disaster who were resettled in make shift camps and have been abandoned there without adequate shelter, food security,...
Finalist – Greece: Citizen Journalism Against Ore Mining in Halkidiki
Radiobubble/Hackademy will train 25 residents of northern Greece on the development of citizen media. This will enable the protest movement against ore mining in Halkidiki to bypass the media blackout...
Finalist – Uganda: Community Reporters’ Hub and Clinic
Acholi subregion has been ravaged by a Civilwar led Joseph Kony. Defined by massive killings,abduction & other forms of human rights violation. With the withdraw of Kony ,Surviving victims of...
Finalist – Peru: My Community Voices
To train rural settlers in the southern districts of Puno in the use of the media via Internet to document their culture, history and own news through blogs that include...
Finalist – Nigeria: Addressing Iwerekhan Environmental Concerns with Social Media
With the long history of oil extraction in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria and the environmental pollution and loss of livelihoods this instigates, documentation of impacts as experienced by...
Finalist – Zimbabwe: Promoting Citizen Journalism in Chitungwiza
We have initiated an online news platform with URL http://www.chitownews.com. The platform uses the concept of citizen reporting whereby citizens play an active role in the gathering, documenting and disseminating...
