Proposals Environment
Ecuador: Lives and Voices from Valle Hemoso
Valle Hermoso (Beautiful Valley) is a new community formed around a pond that didn't exist until 1995. It is needed by the people around to know how to deal with the water resource, deal with the new fauna and tell the world what is being doing about this. Using video blogs, photo galleries and social networks, the lives and voices from Valle Hermoso's people will be told to the world. Also, awareness about the water will be created.
Kenya: Digital fishermen of Oyamo Island
This project is to transform the fishermen in Oyamo island from traditional inadequate ways of communication by training them in computer and internet usage. The project is to enhance these fishermen global participation in environmental issues especially water and marine conservation. They will have a voice in global major environmental forums organized by UNEP and other stakeholders, something they are not even aware of currently.
Colombia: EcologĂa Ambulante (Ambulant Ecology)
Create a new voice from transdisciplinary knowledge and the everyday experience of rural children, through edu-communication methodology based on open-free models of collective creation to develop artistic and research practices, related to the concept of local territory with a common and amusing language. These practices will be communicated with virtual and analogical media, that emerge from interactions between diverses communities
Palau: Youth-In-Conservation Social Network
This project aims to build global youth awareness of conservation in Palau, a small island nation in the Pacific. Palau Conservation Society will establish a youth-in-conservation online social network by holding a workshop, facilitated by a team of youth, to develop and administer a social network site to link Palau youth with other youth around the world. The overarching goal is to encourage them to become lifelong stewards of conservation.
Ghana: The Savannah Echoes Project
The Savannah Echoes is a Citizen Media Toolkit Outreach Project that seeks to empower the Sakogu community of Northern Ghana to develop a community citizen media strategy comprising of a toolkit of:pod casting,Blogging/Micro blogging.Mapping,YouTube and Flickr. This citizen media toolkit will enable it have an active online representation to highlight it's climate change challenges, it's interventions and learn new intervention approaches.
India: Revival of Eco-Traditional heritage
It is proposed to document and revive the traditional practices of the indigenous communities in Rajasthan which are more-or-less associated with the conservation of nature and natural resources. It is the fact that the indigenous culture is eco-friendly. With the pace of development, the eco-centric approach is being lost. It is the need of the time to document and revive eco-traditional practices based on the symbiotic relationship with nature.
Uganda: Enviromental Protection Promotion
The Enviromenatl Protection Promotion project is a project intented to sesetise the local community of kamuli district about the advancages of a safe and clean environment through the youth. Kamuli district being a rural district with 80 % of the population are farmers who distirt tyhe environment by defforestration, need to be senseticsed about the advandages of environmental prorection.
Kenya: Voice for Conservation
lake Victoria region is a hub of so many activities:trading, fishing, and conservation with C.B.O and NGO around the region the project will involved the local community and environmentalist on the region for the economical sustainable conservation of valedictorian using social media
Tanzania: Young Green Bloggers
Young Green Bloggers is the project designed to train youth members from Tanzania Youth Environmental Network (TAYEN) to use online and social media communication channels including facebook, twitter and YouTube. The project will train 20 youth from secondary schools and Universities on how to create and use social media to educate and increase awareness on climate change problem and environmental conservation to other youth in Tanzania.
Gambia: Promoting Environmental Sustainability through Media
The project aims to train community women how to capture the local environmental issues related threats, solutions, opportunities and how to feed the outputs back to the community via blog posts, online videos, photos, news articles with the objective of empowering local communities. While using the latest technology, it is proving that digital media can give a voice to a community and bring them to a common understanding about their problems.