We are going to create a big public site-platform for local community which reflect problems and cravings of community and will content local bloggers, who have what to say to community. We will encourage local citizens to participate actively in community life using our TOOL. We are going to administrate the site, make promotion to share information about the platform using free services and social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Vkontakte, Instagram and Google+. We will provide trainings for older people to encourage them to join the site and share their questions and problems
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Khmelnitsky
Describe the specific population with whom you will be working.
The main target group is young people (16 – 35 years old), who will be encouraged as local bloggers, journalists and volunteers for promotion the discussion site who are good with Internet, and networks. The other group is older people (over 50 years old), who use IT-technology rarely. We are up to encourage them to participate in community life using the sites and social networks, post their problems and points of view within our tool. We are also about to teach them to use social networks in everyday life and communication to make them closer to IT-technology development process.
Who else will be on your team to help implement the project?
NGO “Option” has two stuff people: Maryna Shandoruk (https://www.blogger.com/home), Natalia Shandoruk (http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/profile/485022496449). We also have the small group of volunteers to participate in the project: Tatyana Venhrova (also a web-designer), a manager of library affiliate #11 of Khmelnitsky City Library (https://www.facebook.com/tatyana.vengrova?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser), Alina Kalinska, journalist-freelancer (https://www.facebook.com/alina.kalinskaya?fref=ts).
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
The SITE will consist of Anticorruption chapter which will be used by any member of local community. On the site can be written about corrupted organizations of our region, about people who require bribes, but with proving video of requiring (givetake) bribes (which is really easy to make nowadays by phone) and comments when and how it was. For example, a doctor who requires money bribe from patient can be shouted on video and shown on our platform. There also will be posted problems of the region, like roads, agricultural, civil needs, etc. We will offer to young journalist join blogs on the site to share their fresh views and investigations. It means that any person with journalist talent is able to use our TOOL to make community life better and therefore also make hisher name.
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.
We closely collaborate with Khmelnitsky City Library. This public institution will provide a hall for trainings. We also collaborate with Children Educational Institution # 23 (Khmelnitsky town), which is ready to help for promotion the the discussing SITE among all the workers of kindergartens and encourage them to participate in trainings.
How many participants do you think will be trained in your project?
We are going to gather at least 150 participants for trainings and encourage all city community as much as possible to join the discussing SITE. The main goal is to make it
Describe which technologies, tools, and media you will focus on when training participants.
Using online sites and blogs is the way to share and get information, especially for older people of our community. They are getting information from television, which is possibly a tool of propaganda. That is why we face the need to wide access to public information for people of 50 years old through our SITE. Therefore publicity is a great way for building new Ukrainian democracy, people have to know bribers and discuss local problems using technology resourse. Young journalists, streamers and bloggers will be able to join public life of community. This is also a good way of development of Third sector in Ukraine. We will provide trainings for people over 50 years old to teach them how to use the SITE and sharing information and discussion within it.
Describe the facilities where you will hold the workshops.
We will hold the workshops on the hall of library affiliate #11 of Khmelnitsky City Library System. The hall equipped with wire ADSL Internet connection (high speed), we would like to order through grant a WI-FI router to provide Internet-access for Tabs and Android system phones of participants. We have only one computer for demonstrations (NGO`s equipment), but there is a good possibility for all willing participants who have no Internet access at home to use free Internet access posts in library affiliates #9, #14 and #12 of Khmelnitsky City Library System which possess free computers given by Fund of Bill and Melinda Gaits.
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?
I am the one of representative of our community, was born in Khmelnitsky and know well all the problems of local people. I have been working in Khmelnitsky City Library System for a long time, so I have very close bonds with this organization. In cooperation with Khmelnitsky Library System and particularly with library-affiliate #11 we provided many different activities for people of local community, that is why we know how to work together efficiently. We wish the SITE platform exist for a very long time because it is needed by community and very useful. The platform will be administrated by NGO YEC “Option” further.
What specific challenges do you expect to face when planning and implementing your project?
We expect to face problem of lack of interest of older people to the local publicity. Most of them don`t see the necessity of being involved into the social process, which is mistaken view. We have to make them understand that community can change life into better.
To encourage local people to participate we will make promotion of active social position through advertisement article in Khmelnitsky Municipal newspaper “Proskuriv” which is also our informational partner.
How will you measure and evaluate the project’s impact, specifically: your primary participants, the wider regional community, or the global digital community?
We want to make the SITE very popular and pose it strictly like a tool for solving community problems and questions. If people will use it widely, they will be able to solve many local problems, to build democracy, to expose dishonest officials and make life better. The main goal of our NGO is to make Ukrainian`s lives better. The second goal is involvement of young activists (bloggers, journalists, streamers) into community public life and strong civil position.
If your project were to be selected as a Rising Voices grantee, what would be the general timeline of project activities in 2014?
28/04 – creating of Platform with web-designer;
294 – post an article and calendar of trainings about Platform in Municipal newspaper “Proskuriv”;
304 – make poster with advertisemnet of Platform;
045 – buy router and set it;
055 – sharing posters in schools, kindergatens, hospitals, libraries by coordinator;
135 – meeting with workers of Educational center #23 by coordinator;
165 – training for young participants (18 – 35);
245 – training for older participants (over 50 years old);
315 – training for older participants (over 50 years old);
076 – training for older participants (over 50 years old);
284 – no expire – administration of the site by coordinator.
Detail a specific budget of up to $2,500 USD for operating costs.
1. Equipment:
a) Wi-Fi router – Edimax BR-6228nC V2 – 28 $;
b) to buy hosting for the site on 2 years with unlimited space – 300 $
c) to provide domen for 2 years – 21 $;
d) projector for trainings ViewSonic PJD5234 – 400 $;
e) publishig posters for promotion site – 200 pieces – 70 $
2. Salaries:
a) Coordinator and project manager Maryna Shandoruk, who will also administrate site and provide trainings – 420 $ (the whole time and taxes included);
b) To create site on Wordpress by web-designer Tetyan Vengrova – 50$ taxes included;
3. Coffee breaks on trainings (coffee, tea, cookies) – 30 $ (for whole time).
Total: 1319 $
Besides the microgrant funding, what other support can Rising Voices provide for your project to ensure its success?
You can join to promotion of our site by spreading information about our NGO.
Contact name
Maryna Shandoruk
Organization
NGO Youth educational center “Option”
