Rising VoicesVoces 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.
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Voces Bolivianas
Voces Bolivianas promotes the use of new media tools to allow Bolivians from underrepresented groups to share stories about their lives and communities. 
Prison Diaries
Prison Diaries teaches inmates in Kingston, Jamaica to blog and podcast in order to present the realities of the Jamaican prison system with the hope of challenging popular 'badboy veneration'. 
HiperBarrio
HiperBarrio is an outreach collective of Colombian bloggers who have teamed up with local libraries to host new media workshops in the city's working class neighborhoods. 
Neighbourhood Diaries
Neighbourhood Diaries is a pilot project which trains children of Kolkata's red light slums how to use creative writing and online media to create and disseminate unrecognized and authentic community narratives in local and global media. 
Blogging Since Infancy
Pablo Flores of the OLPC project in Uruguay is organizing four workshops around the country to teach young students how to blog with their XO laptops. 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!
posted on January 29th, 2008 at 11:56 am - #462[...] new bloggers in El Alto, Santa Cruz, and other sites around Bolivia, has been featured in El Deber, the BBC, Argentina’s La Nación, and OH! Magazine. They were featured yet again this week, this time [...]
posted on June 10th, 2008 at 6:07 pm - #4834