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Rising Voices and Open Society Institute’s Health Media Initiative are happy to announce the six newest health-focused citizen media outreach projects. We received over 110 proposals from health activists and organizations based in over 50 different countries. The six selected grantees represent the most innovative applications of citizen media tools like blogs, podcasts, and online video to help further the advocacy goals of public health organizations, and to empower the communities they work with.

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Rising Voices Trailer

posted by David Sasaki on Jun 28, 2008 - 5 comments
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It has been one year since Rising Voices awarded its first round of five outreach grants to project in Sierra Leone, Colombia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, and India. Those first five grantees where then joined by five more projects in December, 2007. Today, as we are about to announce our newest round of six more citizen media outreach projects, we would like to take the time to step back and reflect on all that the first 10 projects have accomplished over the past year.

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First anniversary of the Nari Jibon Blog

posted by Rezwan on May 29, 2008 - 5 comments
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On the first anniversary of the Nari Jibon Blog we have asked the people behind Nari Jibon of Bangladesh, its educators and a participant about the challenges of the citizen media outreach project so far. We wanted to know what they have learned, how the blog has helped them, what the frustrations have been and what were their happiest moments. Read all about these in this week’s feature.

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Rising Voices at the Global Voices Summit 2008

posted by David Sasaki on May 20, 2008 - 1 comment
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Five representatives from Rising Voices will present their experiences - either as trainers or trainees - in citizen media outreach projects in Colombia, Bolivia, Madagascar, and Kenya at this year’s Global Voices Summit on June 28 in Budapest, Hungary.

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Global Voices is seeking to hire a Public Health Editor

posted by David Sasaki on May 05, 2008 - 0 comments
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Global Voices is seeking to hire a Public Health Editor. He of she will be responsible for writing weekly articles which cover the latest discussions and topics related to public health and human rights in the developing world from citizen media like blogs, podcasts, and video-blogs.

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Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, in collaboration with the Open Society Institute Public Health Program’s Health Media Initiative, is now accepting project proposals for the third round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects focused especially on public health issues involving marginalized populations.

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An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media

posted by David Sasaki on Jan 16, 2008 - 16 comments
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Rising Voices proudly announces the first in a series of outreach guides meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership. The first guide, An Introduction to Citizen Media, offers context and case studies which show how everyday citizens across the world are increasingly using blogs, podcasts, online video, and digital photography to engage in an unmediated conversation which transcends borders, cultures, and differing languages.

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Congratulations New, Rising Voices

posted by David Sasaki on Dec 28, 2007 - 6 comments
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The Rising Voices citizen media outreach initiative will start out 2008 with five new and innovative projects based in Kenya, Madagascar, Uruguay, Jamaica, and Iran.

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The application deadline for microgrants of up to US$ 5,000 to fund citizen media outreach projects in the developing world has been extended until Monday, December 3. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and take advantage of tools like blogging, video-blogging, and podcasting on their own.

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Rising Voices Update

posted by David Sasaki on Nov 09, 2007 - 0 comments

Rising Voices is now entering its sixth month as the citizen media outreach arm of Global Voices. In this post we take a look back at what RV has accomplished in its first five months and how we hope to improve in the future.

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