Proposals Indigenous Communities
Macedonia: Wild Herbs Exchange Network
Macedonia is a country with lush nature and a large number of medicinal herbs and teas. People that live in remote villages have a natural remedy for every ailment but they have very little contact with the rest of the world. We plan to educate these people on the importance in sharing this knowledge by exchange of information and cures using the internet. We will also ask young bloggers to photograph and write about these wild herbs.
Australia: Replenish the Earth – Voices from Aboriginal Australians
Project REARTH aims to promote ecological and social justice. It will collect stories from aboriginal Australians, whose views and knowledge focus strongly on living harmoniously with our land. Stories will be uploaded on websites First Voices and The Goodness Inc. It will create a blog including videos, audio and art where aboriginal Australians can be at the centre of social change by delivering social media training and tools.
Uganda: #TweepsHelpBududa Experience
The project proposes a unique program to teach and encourage the youth from Bugisu who were affected by the landslides to innovatively use social media to share their culture and call for actions for social change through citizen media training workshops. The project’s ultimate goal is to create a vibrant network of the new generation who use citizen media to share information and celebrate the impact of #TweepsHelpBududa as a successful example.
Rwanda: Mr Help
My project seeks to say the history of indigenous people, their role in economically,culture and traditional language and how they were discriminated during pre-colonial period even now. I will accomplish this using media and historical proverbs relating to Rwandan cultural.
Mexico: On the Road to Zero Waste
This year we have worked with communities affected by incineration in cement plants, to identify alternatives to handling municipal solid urban waste, as part of the actions against incineration. This project proposes video documenting the process in these communities to implement zero waste plans in your town. Since the formation of cooperatives, to the work of recycling, collection and management of these wastes.
Malawi: Indigenous Asset Protection Project
Indigenous Asset Protection Project aims at equipping the local communities to ably record and take stock of their indigenous assets and developing and taking actions to protect, preserve and reclaim these assets such as land, soil, water, forests, biodiversity, wildlife, crops, plants, rivers/water sources, mountains, cultures and traditions, languages, livelihoods, medicine and health, etc and learn from and share with the global village online
Philippines: Singing Our Way To Your Hearts
The project involves forming a group of marginalised IP children and youth and training them to promote and preserve their native culture. The project will facilitate the production of online content that will be shared to a broader audience using citizen media tools. The project will also contribute to the scaling up of the initiative with the women (mothers) thereby further strengthening its impact and maximising resources for optimum results.
Benin: Social Camp 2.0 for the Lakeside Village of Ganvie
The project is to organize a social camp 2.0 designed to indigenous journalists and local administrators (Head district, school principals, social responsibility, etc.) for learning to use tools “web2.0 for development”, the creation and administration of their blog on the internet. It’s the creation of an open digital identity on the world and sharing stories that affect the lives of Ganvié, city built entirely on water.
India: Advocacy for Forest Rights for Indigenous People
We are social worker doing advocacy for Forest rights ACT Implementation for tribal people to get Land Pattas for their cultivation lands , we wanted to do advocacy through Mobile phones and computer and focus discussions with Journalists, to send tribal voice for Government officers to get land Pattas through Forest rights Act proposed project was implemented in Buttaigudem mandal in WestGodavari District IN Andhrapradesh in INDIA
Colombia: Traditional Knowledge for Sustainable Development
The initiative is focused on the preservation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and to use it effectively in promoting sustainable land use of the riverine landscape. This microgrant perfectly fits in to facilitate a training in digital media to amplify the use of TEK in community-based ecotourism and to promote their sustainable entrepreneurship on the internet. After the training, the people learn by doing throughout the project.
