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Closing the Gap in Indigenous Australia with Mobile Journalism

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NT Mojos, a project in Australia's Northern Territory, empowers indigenous people to have a local voice and to provide a less marginalized view of everyday life by enabling them to create and share mobile stories. This post is republished thanks to the Mobile Media Toolkit.

Somalia Speaks: Amplifying Unheard Somalian Voices

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Somalia is one of those developing countries who end up in world media for all the wrong reasons: civil war, famine, drought, Somalian pirates are to name a few. With the help of an Ushahidi based platform “Somalia Speaks“, Al Jazeera English is aggregating unheard voices from inside Somalia via SMS. The responses are translated into English and plotted onto a map.

Rising Voices Call for Proposals for Citizen Media Outreach

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Rising Voices is now accepting project proposals for 2012 microgrant funding of up to $4,000 USD for citizen media outreach projects. Applications are due no later than Friday, February 3, 2012.

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