Rising Voices
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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Rising Voices Seeks Micro-Grant Proposals for Blog Outreach
posted by David Sasaki on Oct 31, 2007 - 5 comments
Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the second round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for citizen media outreach projects. Application Deadline: November 30, 2007.
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Rising Voices, the citizen media outreach arm of Global Voices is now accepting applications for a part time Features Editor.
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We are thrilled to announce the first five citizen media outreach projects to receive Rising Voices microgrants. In total we received 142 project proposals from over 40 different countries. What all of the project proposals have in common is a desire to enable their communities to tell their own stories, to write their own first draft of history, to document their traditions and culture before they are washed away by the tides of globalization.
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posted by David Sasaki on May 31, 2007 - 0 comments
Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the first round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. 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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posted by David Sasaki on May 24, 2007 - 0 comments
Thanks to the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Global Voices is now starting a new outreach project, Rising Voices, which aims to spread the benefits of citizen media to regions, languages, and communities that are currently underrepresented on the conversational web.
Rising Voices will serve as the third arm to Global Voices’ triad of amplifying independent voices worldwide, advocating for their right to free speech, and providing universal access to citizen media tools as is described in our founding manifesto.
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