This initiative is a citizen journalism training project that aims to empower women through digital media and online journalism.I mean by online journalism,blogging in its main forms:articles,videos/audio and photojournalism. The main objective is to give a voice to these women and empower them to advocate for their rights and their local communities through citizen journalism.They will be trained to create blogs and mentored to train other women
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
the 24 governorates/cities of Tunisia
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Beside the independent blogs,an online platform will be created named as the project where women's contributions will be posted on a regular basis.The content will focus on local social concerns of these women and documentation of their local problems(reporting, interviewing other women etc)The platform will play the role of a liaison between citizens and local authorities by raising local voices using local dialect on the blog posts
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
The team for the trainings will be formed of Tunisian bloggers from the Tunisian sphere such as:Ateliers ouverts de Bloggings- Social Media Club Tunisia-Le PACTE Tunisien- Independent bloggers-Women bloggers- Nawaat
This will be an opportunity for organizations working on citizen journalism to partner and network.It will also be inspiration to participants by learning from the bloggers’ experiences and concrete outcomes of citizen journalism
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
The project targets more than 1000 new active women bloggers during 1st year.The project will be sustainable because it will contain 3 major steps.First round will be trainings of 300 women all over Tunisia(300new blogs).Then, the most 50 active women will attend training of trainers workshop.These women will go back to their regions and be mentored to train 50 women and so on.The network will extend in each region with a strong mentorship progam
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
-The promotion of the project on Global Voices website.
-Translation of some stories and publish them on Global Voices Website.
-Help improving the online platform(blog or website) of “Sout El Tounseya” once created.
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This project seeks to give voice to marginalized women and to place a spotlight on the issues that matter most to them. Empowering women by sharing skills and best practices in journalism and social media is an initiative by a dedicated young activist committed to peace and development. Very important work.
Thank you Natalie for your support.
Me parece excelente la iniciativa, desde Suramerica siempre estamos buscando nuevas prácticas para poder implementar y potencializar el impacto de la web en las tradiciones locales.
Lo que me encanta del proyecto son los 3 pilares que maneja: el empowerment a las mujeres de todo el país, las participación de bloggeros profesionales como coach del proceso y el enfoque hacia la creación local de .
Porque hoy en día donde existe tanta información creo yo basado en mi experiencia de más de 8 años en el sector , que el contenido local va a cobrar más relevancia con el paso de los .
Cualquier colaboración que necesiten , pueden contar con .
Brilliant ideas,we have.What we do often lack are engaged persons to transform ideas into concrete projects with visible impacts.Aya is the right person for this project in Tunisia.Best of luck!
Thank you Abder for the support. I hope we can duplicate this project in Africa. Let’s keep in touch!
As a matter of fact as head of both “Ateliers Ouverts de Bloogging” and “SMC Tunisia” we never got any word from those guys.
Hey Kimo,
Who’s guys you’re talking about?