Proposals Digital Storytelling from February, 2013
Kenya: Youth and I.C.Ts. in Community Development
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are transforming societies and fueling the growth of the global economy. Yet despite the broad potential of ICTs, their benefits have not been spread evenly. Indeed, using ICTs will be effectively to foster social inclusion and economic growth is among the key challenges facing policymakers today, and therefore organization hopes to promote ICTs development across many dimensions.
Nigeria: “From my Heart to Yours”
Through various workshops / trainings and monthly mentoring visits, GEM INT’L in partnership with SANROSE Information and Technology Enterprise will train 50 women from Luwuna Village on citizen media so as to create an avenue for expressions and advocacy on the status and rights of women through sharing of experiences on-line so as to gain support and be relief of their situation on regards to gender .
Tanzania: Saving the Young Generation from HIV/AIDS
Every day thousands of babies are conceived and some are born into this world that is faced with the HIV/AIDS disease that is a threat to mankind. By using different citizen media tools e.g. blogs, social networking sites, mobile phone, digital story telling/video etc on a large scale, the project will reach out to the community with the objective creating a free HIV generation, increasing awareness of prevention of mother to child transmissio
Tanzania: Saying No Violence Against Children
This project is dedicated to the children of Tanzania whose experience of childhood depends on what you and I do today, tomorrow and the day after. They are waiting to hold our hand, to show us what it could be like, if only we will listen and learn. The project will use citizen media to address a need to develop a comprehensive policy framework that addresses within all policy initiatives, the detriment of the current power-based model of the
Colombia: Radio and Forum Mariamulata
Create a Radio (internet and radio wave) and a network communication system for Rincón del Mar. Internet has arrive recently to this village. We will set up first a social Forum for Mariamulata Cultural Center, then an internet radio station open to local and communitarian use. The oral tradition and storytelling roots are rich as music and culture. How to take advantage of technology for empowerment and appropriation is what should be learn.
Zimbabwe: Finding Our Online Voice
We want to give IT and communication training to orphaned young women and girls so that they can both use computers confidently and know how to post their own inspiring stories on to the new Shingirirai website on how they have survived the fallout of HIV/AIDS and moved on to become leaders and involved in community support programs. With the skills acquired they can act as communication channels to connect with young people in other countries.
Uganda: Digital Empowerment to the Vulnerable
To Empower Rural/Urban poor adult learners to read and write English so that their capacity would be built to use digital devices to share information with their community and small scale businesses. There would be a community base training centre that would engage instructors and facilitators for the project.
South Africa: Show Me Your Best….
I propose to bring together online different migrant groups living in Yeoville, Johannesburg, South Africa. The migrant groups will use the online platform to showcase their best in terms of clothing, culture, food or something they feel proud about. It will be a forum whereby they can interact and learn about different cultures while learning how to use social media. I plan to have an online competition for the best dressed person/food/picture.
Kenya: WOES-Walking on Egg Shells
WOES-Walking on Egg Shells is an initiative that seeks to promote progressive re-integration of ex-prisoners in their communities by blogging their struggles to fit in the community from the first day they were released from prison to bring about acceptance and to avoid the situation whereby they feel like they are walking on eggs shells because every one looks at them suspiciously once they know that they were once offenders.
Sierra Leone: ‘Attire Base’ Youth Parliament
The project ‘Attire Base Youth Parliament’ will enable youth to use new media such as videos, and the internet to share their stories to the world. These youth will have the opportunity to discuss issues that impact them such as sports, to daily life of survival, to politics, economic and social issues that affect them and the country and document them online and via video media. These discussions are mature, sensible, sensitive and debatable.
