Proposals from April 7, 2014
Portugal: Keep in Touch
With this project we aim to show the world our history before it's forgotten in time. We will train people so that they can communicate and share information through information technologies. We want people to share their story, their work experience, social traditions, their old daily routine and their old eating habits. We want them to remind our landscapes as they were formerly, and how architecture has changed. We intend to work with youth, adults and seniors (from this region) with the aim of disseminating and promoting cultural aspects and traditions experienced by each individual.
Benin: Friends for the 21st Century Literacy
This is one of our thought-provoking projects of this year 2014 and will help young people master new technologies of information and communication to share experiences and use those tools in their story telling. Our main idea is to use social media and other tools to deliver our mission; to show young people with new technologies of information and communication they can do amazing things liable to help them be knowledgeable and ready to focus on their field of interest as young undergraduate from disadvantaged area.
Serbia: Attention Please!?
This project will largely increase the number of youth from 15 to 19 years old actively involved in youth programs through social media campaign. Young people are using social media non-stop. Less than 1% of them is using social media for education & making changes in their communities. They will learn about programs for the youth, opportunities they have and, most important, how to use different social media platforms to reach their goals. Together with them, we will plan one big campaign with the aim to increase the number of youngsters actively involved in the youth programs from 1 to 5%.
Uganda: Citizen Engagement and Government Responsiveness Using ICTs
This project aims at deepening feedback and feedback mechanisms between the citizens and their local leaders in Oyam district, Northern Uganda.The project seek to encourage more active participation of citizens and local leaders on issues that affect service delivery within their respective communities. It will create awareness, build forum for discussions and provide appropriate channels for channeling community grievances and how these grievances get solved by their local leaders. Multi-stakholder dialogues will be held to discuss service delivery issues using a number of ICT platforms
Uganda: Lango Community Radio
Lango community Radio shall help people air their views, communicate local international news; transmit relevant knowledge on rights, technology, practical issues like health and education, preserve the Lango culture in terms of music, art and norms; and link other communities to the Lango culture online as well as through the local radio networks.
Lebanon: Women Political Empowement
Association Nabad for development works to activate the role of women and enhance their skills.This project will aim to enable and empower a group of women on using social media in strategic way in order to raise their voice to demand their rights and start playing their leadership role in community development. Nabad will conduct three training for 25 women in central and north bekaa on Social media (Facebook ,Twitter and Digital storytelling) in order to create page on facebook,Hashtag and make a film about their case and spread it on social media (facebook and Twitter) .
India: Regenerating Urban Areas through Youth Participation
Addressing the two issues confronting youth empowerment, i.e. under representation of youth in development affairs and high rate of unemployment; we propose to redefine youth participation in planning the future of Indian cities by creating a grassroots-driven process that inspires youth to undertake social entrepreneurship roles in urban areas such as in the Union Territory of Pondicherry. The idea is to create an online social innovation platform that has its roots in networking, sound advocacy and active participation principles. Training and workshops will be deployed to build capacities
Ukraine: If You Are Discussed, Then You Exist
Perform training in public journalism for everyone who desires in Zdolbuniv district of Rivne region (population – 60,000 people). The following issues shall be considered during the training: how to find news in a town, a village; how to tell the story only from a picture; why video cannot be questioned; where you can tell your story in the Web; why it is not enough to do the good and useful thing – you also need to tell it to people. After the training the participants shall do the practical work in their own locations, prepare text, audio, video materials for publication
Guatemala: Tz'utujil Tziij Pa Nimk'atz
This is a proposal that brings us to promote the use of tz'utujil Mayan language in social networks. The tz'utujil speakers do not write in Mayan language in social networks. If they do send messages in Spanish. We hope that by the end of it increase the number of people communicating in their native language writing and social networking. An awareness campaign on the network will be developed and sensitization workshops were moved to the use and strengthening of the language in the media. Especially work with promoters tz'utujil language and youth leaders of each community. Traslate of google
Morocco: Artists of the Kasbah
An artist is a person who produces works eliciting an emotion or feeling and thought-provoking and spirituality or transcendence is to perform a skill, an art or a technique belonging to the art we see among others creativity, poetry, the originality of his generation, his actions and deeds. The concept artist is linked to the idea of subject and otherness in an individual or group of people.
