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Vandalism or a legitimate form of cultural expression? Is tagging a form of visual contamination or does the writing on the wall tell us something more about the communities we live in? Jorge Jurado meditates on the significance and motivation behind the words on the walls in La Loma, Medellin, Colombia.
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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. 
AIDS Rights Congo
AIDS Rights Congo trains communication officers from local AIDS organizations in digital story telling, podcasting, and the creation of blogs to document the stigma and discrimination of people infected and affected by HIV and AIDS in Congo. 
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. 
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. 
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'. Rising Voices is a Global Voices project supported by the Knight Foundation and OSI.
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[...] who produced a short documentary about La Loma’s graffiti culture and blogs at La Voz del Silencio, is also a talented graphic designer and hip-hop artist. His song [...]
posted on February 19th, 2008 at 3:13 pm - #633