This week we begin a new feature on Rising Voices where we will regularly check in with project leaders from the 10 Rising Voices outreach projects. We start with Eddie Ávila who is currently in the United States to present Voces Bolivianas at the We Media conference in Miami, Florida.
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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. -
Blogging the Dream
The Orizonturi Foundation in Campulung Moldovenesc, Romania is creating a blogging club for mental health service users which trains them how to maintain a weblog, upload videos to online sharing sites, and use social networks. -
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. -
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.
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Rising Voices is a Global Voices project supported by the Knight Foundation and OSI.
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The music is so fun. The idea of placing blogging workshops in misrepresented but growing cities/regions is really interesting. Just because there is a strong presence of bloggers there it would spontaneously bring more and more informations and exchanges between the groups, the blogosphere and even in the web.
posted on February 22nd, 2008 at 7:26 pm - #676we can’t wait for the book !
Team Bolivia!
I want a copy of the book too!
posted on February 22nd, 2008 at 11:30 pm - #678