The project “Citizen journalism“ is a video-blogging kind of project. It will be used to indicate problems in 30 local communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to demonstrate the democratization.
ONAuBiH will create a network of 30 local teams in 30 communities of Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to perform this project. Each local team is consisted of young people (15-30 years old) who will, using their smartphones, cell-phones, tablets and other technical equipment, each week make a 3-5 minutes video, indicating problem(s) in their community. Videos will be uploaded to social networks.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
30 cities/local communities of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Describe the specific population with whom you will be working.
Citizens do not resort to methods that are available to them today, to recognize the problem and share it on social networks. In this even the young population does not stand out. There are various political pressures, but also fear for publishing content that detect non-compliance with various rights. That's the reason why citizens do not use videos to make their views and concerns to the public.
With this project we want to show that citizens, especially young people, do not have to be professional journalists and researchers, to put forward their problems and point to their existence.
This project will help young people acquire critical thinking skills and research on the problems, but the potential problem solving in local communities too.
Who else will be on your team to help implement the project?
Edita Velic https://www.facebook.com/
Denis Hadzic http://www.facebook.com/denisgigohadzic
Djenan Cosovic https://www.facebook.com/denan.cosovic
Haris Dedovic https://www.facebook.com/haris.dedovic1
Marko Matovic https://www.facebook.com/marko.matovic
Boris Covic https://www.facebook.com/boris1covic
Vladimir Colakovic https://www.facebook.com/zgembavi
Ahmed Hadzic http://www.facebook.com/ahmed.hadzic
Petar Vistorop https://www.facebook.com/cuvamsezatrecisvjetski
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
We will give an opportunity to young people from 30 BH communities for getting media space to present problems in their local communities. This will be happening every week. All videos will be posted on Youtube™ channel, Facebook™ page of ONAuBiH and Facebook™ page of every local team, and other social networks, as well as on ONAuBiH official website. This project will teach young people how to express the problem in the local community, how to seek help from the authorities, lobbying mechanisms, and to strive that a problem in their local environment is resolved. This will be a good mechanism for citizen journalism in order to learn the skills of youth-citizen journalism.
The movement of activating young people and the general population to indicate problems in their communities.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established or plan to establish that will contribute to the success of the project.
Cooperation with Press Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cooperation with Association of Secondary school students in Bosnia and Herzegovina
How many participants do you think will be trained in your project?
We will gather 30 coordinators (age 15-30) of the local teams from 30 BH communities. On one of our meetings, we will train them on: Introduction to the project and examples of video-blogging, Duties and requirements of the videos, Allowed content, Citizen journalism, Tracking and reporting activities, Offering solutions to problems and making a story, Democratization, Indicating problems, Investigative Journalism. They will be in touch by social networks, as well as attend ONAuBiH future projects, meetings and seminars.
Describe which technologies, tools, and media you will focus on when training participants.
Topics that will be talked about are: Introduction to the project and examples of video-blogging, Duties and requirements of the videos, Allowed content, Citizen journalism, Tracking and reporting activities, Offering solutions to problems and making a story, Democratization, Indicating problems, Investigative Journalism.
We will also give the participants technical support and skills on performing this project. We chose video-blogging as the easiest, cheapest and fastest way to indicate problem and share it on social networks.
Describe the facilities where you will hold the workshops.
All our members that will be included in this project have ADSL connection Internet with average speed of 56 Mbs.
What is your current relationship with the community with whom you plan to work? What makes you the most appropriate individual or organization to implement this project?
We have organized many projects with the 30 local communities that we plan on doing this project too, and we have established well visibility in all of them, as well as our members in those communities.
What specific challenges do you expect to face when planning and implementing your project?
If members of the local teams are late with doing and uploading their videos. We will contact them and make sure they accomplish their tasks.
How will you measure and evaluate the project’s impact, specifically: your primary participants, the wider regional community, or the global digital community?
We will follow it by number of views, shares and general impact on society, as well as through evalutation with members involved in performing the project.
If your project were to be selected as a Rising Voices grantee, what would be the general timeline of project activities in 2014?
Preparation, explaining and training the members on how to perform this project (May 2014)
Start publishing videos every week (from June to September)
Do evaluation and submit reports (October)
Detail a specific budget of up to $2,500 USD for operating costs.
Promo materials $1000
Telephone and Internet $350
Coordinator expences $1000
Besides the microgrant funding, what other support can Rising Voices provide for your project to ensure its success?
If duable, we would like to have a professional trainer to teach our participants more about Citizen journalism.
Contact name
Edita Velic
Organization
Omladinska novinska asocijacija u Bosni i Hercegovini
