Community information campaign through Mobile phone , primarily offers rural women and marginalised communities some hope to participate in gender just governance mechanism in the state . For the first time low literate and rural women can listen to information on maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health and other gender equality related mass campaigns.
Topical focus:
Country:
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Krishnagir – Tamil Nadu – India
Describe the specific population with whom you will be working.
Empowering Grassroots Organizations @ village, Panchayat and Tehsil Level through Mobile phone. E Community, e Women in rural areas is a program initiated by REED to offer free information, website to the community, NGO working at the grassroot level in Rural areas in India.
Who else will be on your team to help implement the project?
Grassroots Organizations having community building and development activities in diverse areas in the the social sector all over India and south Asia. Organization must be operational at the village level or panchayat level or below Tehsil Talwk level.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Through the SEDA and eNGO initiative , Digital Empowerment foundation aims to provide 30 numbers of NGO a digital or web space – in local languages and or English- increasing their visibility and to empower them with useful tools that can facilitate and enhance their daily activities in: Communication & outreach , Fund raising attracting donors, partnership & direct linking with other institutions, human resource support in availing skilled human resource and giving voice to local issues and showing local content for global outreach
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.
NGO, eCommunity is a web enabled facility designed by Digital Empowerment Foundation for grassroots civil society and Non-governmental Organizations with cost effective web creation and service delivery with free of cost website and thereby facilitating hundreds and thousands of such grassroots organization to have a virtual identity and information and communication plateform for outreach and scale up
How many participants do you think will be trained in your project?
Through the REED and eNGO initiative , Digital Empowerment foundation aims to provide 30 numbers of NGO a digital or web space – in local languages and or English- increasing their visibility and to empower them with useful tools that can facilitate and enhance their daily activities in: Communication & outreach , Fund raising attracting donors, partnership & direct linking with other institutions, human resource support in availing skilled human resource and giving voice to local issues and showing local content for global outreach
Describe which technologies, tools, and media you will focus on when training participants.
1.Web/Virtual Identity 2. Showing Local content globally 3. Source for resource generation
4. Voicing local issues at national and global platforms 5.National and global outreach
Describe the facilities where you will hold the workshops.
Grassroots organizations having community development initiatives any where in India and south Asia.
Grassroots individual innovators, social entreprenuers undertaking social activities.
Self Help Groups into a set of diverse community benefitting and viable activities.
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?
NGO web service solution package is designed to serve.
Grassroots organizations having community development initiatives any where in India
What specific challenges do you expect to face when planning and implementing your project?
Grassroots Organizations having community building and development activities in diverse areas in the the social sector all over India and south Asia. Organization must be operational at the village level or panchayat level or below Tehsil Talwk level.
How will you measure and evaluate the project’s impact, specifically: your primary participants, the wider regional community, or the global digital community?
The eNGO web service package is designed in a way to provide service at a minimal cost which is sustainable and a low cost solution for grassroots organizations unlike any commercial service at market value.
If your project were to be selected as a Rising Voices grantee, what would be the general timeline of project activities in 2014?
A local digital content platform for national and global audience. An informative and communication platform,
A networking platform,
A platform to air local issues for wider audience
A virtual identity and presence in global web plateform
Easy to maintain & update website in any language
Detail a specific budget of up to $2,500 USD for operating costs.
Hardware– $ 700
internet access- $ 600
workshop costs- $600
Translation- $ 300
Travel- $300
Coordination expense- $400
Total-$ 2,900
Besides the microgrant funding, what other support can Rising Voices provide for your project to ensure its success?
REED trust and Don NGO community organization partnership to work the health
Contact name
Murugan
Organization
REED Trust