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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The Ségou Village Connection project seeks to link residents living in the rural villages of the Ségou region in Mali with former residents that now live in the larger cities through the use of mobile reporting and communication.
The New Women Foundation is working with women in the ElMinya Governorate, who work seasonal or temporary jobs, and is teaching them how to use citizen media to tell the stories of their lives.
The Indian organization Transparent Chennai is working with local fishing communities in southern Chennai to help them document land use and other space-related issues through participatory map making activities, including geo-tagged photographs made my local youth.
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.
we can’t wait for the book !
Team Bolivia!
I want a copy of the book too!