Rising Voices
Voces Bolivianas, one of the first five recipients of a Rising Voices citizen media outreach award, was featured yesterday on the BBC program, The World. In the four minute feature Ruxandra Guidi interviews project facilitator Mario Duran and Voces Bolivianas participant and Aymara translator, Dora Romero.
Congratulations Voces Bolivianas for the much-deserved recognition! You can read frequent English translations from Voces Bolivianas participants here.
Rising Voices aims to extend the benefits and reach of citizen media by connecting online media activists around the world and supporting their best ideas. read more »
Breaking The Silence in Kwa Mashu
In the township of Kwa Mashu, on the outskirts of Durban, South Africa, the Kwa Mashu Community Advancement Project (K-CAP) is training 20 new citizen journalists from within the township how to report on local stories related to local health issues affecting the community. 
Hospice Casa Sperantei
The Casa Sperantei Hospice trains its nurses, doctors, and staff how to use audio and video recording equipment to share the direct stories of patients with life-threatening illnesses. 
Nomad Green
Nomad Green is training Mongolian citizen journalists how to use blogs, digital video, podcasts, and map mashups to report on local environmental news in Mongolian, Chinese, and English. 
FOKO
With the tagline, “it takes a village to raise an idea,” FOKO wants to help Madagascar by bringing the world’s attention to Malagasy people. Rising Voices is a Global Voices project supported by the Knight Foundation and OSI.
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A slightly longer version of Ruxandra’s piece on Voces Bolivianas can be heard as the last segment of The World’s Technology Podcast this week:
http://www.theworld.org/pod/tech/podcast181.mp3
posted on January 25th, 2008 at 1:42 pm - #447Thanks so much for letting us know Clark. I changed the mp3 file so that it plays the longer segment.
posted on January 25th, 2008 at 9:17 pm - #451Congratulations Voces Bolivianas!
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