Proposals Citizen Journalism from February, 2013
Moldova: Link Towards Democratization
The project “Link towards democratization” aims to encourage the youngsters from Moldova to identify the problems their places of origin encounter as well as to draw a map of these issues and to create a radiography of this society through their lens. We are interested to find out how the young people prioritize the social problems such as unemployment, poverty, corruption, minority discriminations, and the persistence of a cold conflict.
Kenya: Arid Lands Community Journalism Project
The project wishes to train professional community journalists who will run a community blog that will provide updates on news, events and projects within the community. The project aims to empower community members with professional journalism skills that will enable them cover and address their issues from their own perspective giving them the power to monitor their leaders and projects that are within their society through a blog.
Pakistan: Rising Voices from Marginalized Communities
New era is era of technology. The lives of poor and marginalized communities are characterized by voicelessness in private and public spaces making easy the poor attention paid to their needs while also depriving their families, communities and the nation of their value addition to development. This will help them to connect with world to show and share their voices and message properly and clearly.
Kenya: Watch This Space
Slum communities in Kenya are largely inhabited by low income earners, a good number of whom are either illiterate, partly educated or lacking in skills. These communities are marginalized not only by the society they are part of but also authorities who only remember them in times of tragedies. Our project will train slum residents how to tell their stories through video and pictures and share the same with the world through the social media.
Croatia: Zmreza, Young People Become Journalists
Z press is also the name of the portal, which is the platform of the project itself. It is a portal into the Zagorje region of Croatia, which has only 130,000 inhabitants. Our goal is to set foot on an independent platform that will serve as a place where residents can express their problems. The portal is designed for supporting the sport and culture, as well as encouraging people to expose the corruption and injustice in the local community.
India: Empowering Voices for Sustainable Development
To provide Information and communications technologies (ICTs), training on environment protection, watershed management, empower the voice and freedom of expression of farmers of poor people, to empower rural poor adult learners to read and write English so that their capacity would be built to use digital devices to share information in local language with their cluster community in the district of Bankura, West Bengal.
Tunisia: Citizenship Visa
Our project aims at training the youth in the field of high technology and strategies of communication on social networks and other means to create a network of people who record and take pictures of situations of citizenship
Uganda: Citizens Voices
Citizens Voices Teaching local residents to record and edit audio recordings on Audacity for a community podcast that can be uploaded online, as well as distributed to local radio stations for a wider reach. As a response to mounting concerns over poor service delivery, low productivity of public investments; escalating corruption in Amuria District, Eastern Ugand; the need for community ‘watch dog’ initiatives to enhance solidarity.
D. R. of Congo: Community Journalists Empowerment
The project aiming to empower the local community journalists on the use of new informatics media technology for the delivering and development agendas and broadcasting.The journalists will be able to update their audiences at a larger scale.Local citizens need to be helped in rising their voices with well informed and trained journalists.
D. R. of Congo: Production of Health and Environment Podcasts
This project is to train 103 people to record and edit audio on the free software Audacity and produces podcasts to download online and distributed to local radio stations for a wider audience.
