Proposals Citizen Journalism from February, 2013
Nigeria: Participatory Community Media Voices
The project seeks to train and support (Video Editing) community people audio and video resources to create advocacy videos and ways to share produced videos via the internet space using cost effective media capture and disseminating means. We seek to promote community rights through the use of video advocacy tools, increase in participatory fashion, community research, report and non-violent advocacy using short length videos.
Zimbabwe: Communicators Marondera
Marondera communities are riddled with a host of challenges emanating mostly from bad governane and corruption by local and national government offiials. Uncollected gabbage, poor roads, non-existent street lighting and sewerage blockages are some of the problems which need documentation. At the same time, political intolerance, killings, harassment and intimidation become the order of the day as the countdown to elections in the country begins.
Brazil: Voices of Freedom
This project expects to develop activities related to citizen media training, especially focused to young people, as a way of prevention of social exclusion and, consequently, eradication of contemporary slave labor, unhappily, a very common crime in our region. We want to carry out a workshop for 15 teenagers that will learn about digital tools such as blog and micro-video for social denounce. Products that will be divulged trough Internet.
Ecuador: Promoting the Amazoic Voices
The project will help the Shuar indigenous and mestizo communities inhabiting the city of Macas, in the Amazon of Ecuador, to tell their experiences and customs via podcast and forming citizen journalism to young teenagers of the town using the Media Center Facilities Atasim Foundation
Tanzania: Youth Online Project
The project aiming to teach Youth from Micheweni Rural District of Pemba Island on the use new information technology for their development agendas.
Morocco: Civic Journalism Promotion
A Media project that seeks to increase Social and political awareness about the importance of giving the opportunity to Marginalized people to be integrated in society and put them in the system of change to be a model of Change Makers for others by inviting them and leting them be decision makers throught video telling and producing short Documentaries of their experiences on internet.
Indonesia: Hotshot
Community village women have capability to being part of change especially after conflict and related electoral situation in Aceh today but they but less of knowledge about technology, sometimes some local media coverage often proclaim the unbalanced and disproportionate which discriminate women, so it requires a community of journalists who can use audio visual technology correctly, distribute news to wider society in order to tell the real news
Ecuador: Open Journalism with Open Licenses and Technologies
Many initiatives of community and citizen journalism aim to strengthen people, their rights and liberties, but that is impossible with private technologies and under a “copyright” perspective. That’s why we want to train communicators, journalists and teachers in the use of free technologies and open licenses. The training will begin with a virtual part, followed by an in-person part to produce stories of citizen participation.
Thailand: Mekong ICT Camp 2013
Mekong ICT Camp: A biannual training workshop on ICT for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong sub-region. We have committed to the ICT capacity development for the talents and organizations in the sub-region to make sure the sub-region's abilities are kept abreast with other parts of the world and can serve for the collective objectives for social development from the NGO and nonprofit sector as a whole.
Rwanda: Gorilla Young Filmmakers
As Rwanda tries to come to terms with horrors of 1994 genocide, the country has attracted a lot of global media attention. It’s sad a huge chunk of Rwandan stories online today, are told by foreigners. The stories of Twa, the minority Rwandan community remains untold. Predominantly living in the forests, they know very little about the new media. We seek to reach and train them via workshops in the art of blogging, photography and video making
