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4 February 2011
3 February 2011
Rising Voices Community Survey - Sharing The Results
Rising Voices started its journey more than three and a half years ago and its community of grantees, participants, applicants, readers, well-wishers have grown gradually. The community mailing list has now over a thousand members. In December, 2010 we asked our readers and community members what they have found valuable about Rising Voices over these past several years, and what other resources they would like to see incorporated into Rising Voices. Here is the summary of the key findings.
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20 January 2011
Ask Rising Voices Your Microgrant Application Questions
As part of Rising Voices' outreach to potential applicants for our latest round of microgrant funding for citizen media outreach projects, we will be offering a live chat for interested individuals or organizations that would like to apply. Please visit here on Monday, January 24 at 1 PM GMT to participate as we answer questions from interested applicants.
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16 December 2010
Open Call for Participation in “Digital Natives With a Cause?” Workshop
Rising Voices is pleased to be partnering with CIS and HIVOS to organize the third regional workshop for the "Digital Natives with a Cause?' project to take place in Santiago, Chile on February 8-10, 2011. We are now accepting applications for participants from Latin America and the Caribbean. Deadline is January 4, 2011.
13 December 2010
Introducing the Rising Voices Community Survey
Through our new community survey, we would like to ask our readers what resources from Rising Voices that you have found especially helpful and what else you would like to see incorporated. We invite you to complete this short survey to help us better understand the needs of our community.
1 December 2010
[Live Chat] Next Steps for the Blogging Positively Guide on December 2
Join Rising Voices on December 2 for a live chat to revisit the "Blogging Positively" Guide, an online resource for individuals and organizations to learn how to use citizen media to discuss HIV/AIDS. This chat will explore ways to make the Guide as useful as possible.
25 October 2010
[Video] Interview with Olzod Boum-Yalagch of Nomad Green
Olzod Boum-Yalagch is an official advisor of Nomad Green, the Mongolian citizen journalism project based in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar. In this video, Mr. Boum talks about how citizen journalism can help raise awareness and eventually lead to solutions for the environmental damage taking place in the country.
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11 October 2010
24 September 2010
Exploring Taboos: Discussing Female Genital Mutilation
Blogger Ahmad Awadalla conducts sexuality education workshops in Egypt, and has been using his blog to share some of his experiences in this field. As one of the participants of the “Exploring Taboos” project, Awadalla has been documenting these experiences in his blog A Rebel with a Cause, where he wrote about discussions about the topic of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) with his students.
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