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Featured Blogger: Getutza
Submitted by servicewire on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:34
Getutza admits that she is a timid person. However, she has discovered that blogging has helped her overcome this shyness thanks to her participation in the Blogging the Dream project from the Orizonturi Foundation in Campulung Moldovenesc in Romania. Ever since she started her blog Singuratate [ro], she has found an outlet to express her thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
FOKO: The Power Of Storytelling
Submitted by servicewire on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 01:07
Security Forces in Analakely during the 2009 Malagasy Protests (by Avylavitra)
Lova Rakotomalala of the Rising Voices grantee FOKO writes that Internet is becoming a threat to the authoritarian regime in Madagascar:
Half the Way
Submitted by servicewire on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 19:07
On wednesday 3 March,2010, we organized a small ceremony at Al-Afefe Foundation in Sana'a.
We have started our program presenting hand in Hand Initiative's activities .In addition, we talked about EWAMT project , and its sucess to come out at the end of the first phase with 24 active bloggers. Further more, we talked about a success story of one of the bloggers, that she got an invitation to participate in Women's Leadership in Tehnology in Al-Sharja. However, she could not go there because her family won't allow her to travel alone.
HiperBarrio: Recording Daily Lives And Sharing With The World
Submitted by servicewire on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 01:31
On 6th of February the Rising Voices grantee from Colombia HiperBarrio- Convergentes organized a photo workshop in the Public Library Of La Loma. The task for the participants was making a sequence of 15 photos about the territory. Henry El Sucio decided to investigate the sequence and record the use of public space and found out that a group of children were playing in the street. Taking advantage of it he asked them “Where do you play?”.
HiperBarrio: Recording Daily Lives And Sharing With The World
Submitted by servicewire on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 01:31
On 6th of February the Rising Voices grantee from Colombia HiperBarrio- Convergentes organized a photo workshop in the Public Library Of La Loma. The task for the participants was making a sequence of 15 photos about the territory. Henry El Sucio decided to investigate the sequence and record the use of public space and found out that a group of children were playing in the street. Taking advantage of it he asked them “Where do you play?”.
Voces Bolivianas: Carnival And Jaqi Aru
Submitted by servicewire on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 01:47
Ceasefire Liberia: Liberian Citizen Journalists Counter Inaccurate Media Reporting
Submitted by servicewire on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 02:14
Abidjan Blog Camps: Cocoa, Avenue Afrique And Abidjan Barcamp
Submitted by servicewire on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 00:44
Things are not always as it seems and there are stories behind stories. People read many news everyday and are usually influenced by these reports. There is hardly any effort to fact check by a common person. But blogging and citizen journalism can make a difference in this circumstance. In an example Théophile Kouamouo of the Rising Voices grantee Abidjan Blog Camps from Ivory Coast points to an article published in the Huffington Post, which has a monthly readership of 12 million visitors.
Featured Blogger: Saki Golafale
Submitted by servicewire on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 01:05
“Liberia is good at history making,” says Saki Golafale in a recent interview with Rising Voices, citing the fact that his country was one of the first independent nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, was the birthplace of one of the greatest African football heroes, as well as was the country that elected the female president on the continent.
New media workshops with Malagasy journalists and social workers in Fianarantsoa
Submitted by servicewire on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 12:38
