Proposals Citizen Journalism
Spain: Peoplewitness
Peoplewitness is a network of livestreamers born in November 2011. We help spread the voice of communities strongly hit by austerity measures, while traditional media only offers an official version of the crisis. Peoplewitness helps cover the citizens’ need to report their reality. We do a series of workshops to provide the knowledge, technology, motivation, support and selfconfidence people need to report their own reality through streaming.
Greece: Citizen Journalism Against Ore Mining in Halkidiki
Radiobubble/Hackademy will provide training on citizen media in north-east Halkidiki, an area of northern Greece at risk of wholesale environmental and social destruction due to ore mining activities developed by Hellas Gold. Its purpose is to enable local residents to share reliable information with the wider public in Greece and abroad through means that enable them to bypass the mainstream media blackout on the issues they are facing.
Egypt: Preparing and Rehabilitating Media Cadres
Egypt is passing by a period where attack targeting media professionals that appears clearly to erase what their cameras filmed of crimes that the offender try to hide. For example, assassination of the journalist Husseini Abu-Deif and stealing his camera. Also killing a number of internet pages’ administrators as a result to the observe that new media has great impact in mobilizing public opinion and lobbying .
Pakistan: Radio Broadcast and journalist Training Project
The purpose for which this grant is being sought is to strengthen radio stations reporting and programming skills. More than 45% of the Pakistani population lives in poverty, and two-thirds of this figure living in rural areas. Some 65% of people living in rural areas are illiterate and lack access to news and information. Most of the radio presenters are working without basic training of broadcasting.
India: South Asian Comics Activists for Gender Justice
Sixteen Grassroots Activists from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal will be trained as Grassroots Comics Trainers to further engage many more female activists/ students in their respective countries to democratise the women voices through the medium of grassroots comics wall posters and campaigns. Comics have the power of unleashing the potential of self-expression and community action. In past several years World Comics Ihas experienced it.
Kenya: Desert Storm
Welcome to Griftu in Wajir in North Eastern desert of Kenya. Saddled in between Ethiopia and Somalia over one thousand KM from Nairobi with no tarmac roads, electricity, water, you are lucky to get mobile network. Talk of global village and you are referring to another world. No wonder when travelling to Nairobi, the residents will ask you to greet Kenyans. To train youth on connectivity using mobile, video, and photography giving them a voice.
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, health and sanitation. The project trains key members of the society and equip them to be able to bring their vital voices to the global community thereby putting government to task so they can take responsibility for their action.
Brazil: WEB-TV / young transmitting citizenship on the Internet
Make free training courses during the period of 12 months, for the creation of a blog WEB TV, promoting the social inclusion of people meeting the goals of democratic access to media through the participation of local community members own. People will create all your content, learn to use equeipamentos, camcorders and all the video editing technique and how to post on the blog, publishing to the world their ideas, information and freedom of e
Mexico: Aprender Fogatas
“Aprender fogatas” seeks to develop and engage community media communicators in collective learning through the collaboration between expert organizations and those who have the need or interest in it. Specifically, the project intents to build a network, through which different organizations, communities and independent media will have the chance to contribute in a political-pedagogical process that results in the formation of new communicators.
India: The Speaking Rickshaw
The Speaking Rickshaw is a media pilot project, which focuses on connecting the socially excluded and marginalized community of the bi-cycle rickshaw pullers in India with the mainstream society and providing a dignified status. The project will revolve around the daily life and challenges of the migrant rickshaw pullers (RPs) in big urban settlements in India. Through the use of use citizen media tools the stories of the RPs will be shared.
