Hiper-Barrio

5 June 2009

Hiperbarrio: Winner Of The Prix Ars Electronica Awards

Written by Rezwan · Hiper-Barrio, Feature

Rising Voices grantee Hiperbarrio in Colombia won the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica awards in the Digital Communities category and with it a 10,000 euro prize. The team members and well wishers share their reactions to the news.

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27 May 2009

A New Era of Human Rights Advocacy

Written by David Sasaki · Hiper-Barrio, Feature

Representatives from several Rising Voices projects took part in this month's "Soul of the New Machine" conference convened by the University of California at Berkeley's Human Rights Center. Their comments and their projects are indicative of a new era of human rights advocacy.

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29 April 2009

Convergentes: A Community Despite The Differences

Written by Rezwan · Hiper-Barrio, Feature

It is great to see Convergentes resuming its activities with new vigor. Convergentes, a part of the Rising Voices grantee HiperBarrio project, is a creative community of citizen journalists of La Loma in Medellín, Colombia.

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11 March 2009

Hiperbarrio: Bringing La Loma To The World

Written by Rezwan · Hiper-Barrio, Feature

The decision to revamp the activities of the Hiperbarrio project had paid off as we see that regular blog posts from the members were published to describe stories of their neighborhood. The members have also attended video workshops to learn to produce/edit short (one minute) videos and post them online with subtitles. And an update of the fund drive for building a home for the homeless Suso is included in this week's feature.

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26 February 2009

Catalina Restrepo Describes ConVerGentes

Written by David Sasaki · Hiper-Barrio, Feature

This Monday the citizen journalists of ConVerGentes, a project of HiperBarrio, got together for a video blogging workshop which, among other strategies, showed the journalists how to frame interview subjects using different angles and framings. In this video Catalina Restrepo describes the goals and activities of ConVerGentes.

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3 February 2009

HiperBarrio Gets Its Groove Back

Written by David Sasaki · Hiper-Barrio, Feature

After a slow couple months the members of HiperBarrio have come up with a plan to inject some enthusiasm and inspiration back into the group and its production of new media.

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18 December 2008

A Campaign for Suso

Written by David Sasaki · Hiper-Barrio, Feature

A project nine months in the making, the bloggers from HiperBarrio are organizing a festive event this Saturday to raise funds in order to finish their all-volunteer construction of a new house for Manuel Salvador, formerly known as "Suso Mugre".

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8 November 2008

Rising Voices Bloggers on Obama's Victory

Written by David Sasaki · Voces Bolivianas, Hiper-Barrio

Rising Voices bloggers joined the global chorus this week as several responded to Barack Obama's victory in Tuesday's presidential election in the United States. We hear comparisons with elections in Colombia and Bolivia, and a blogger in Kenya shares his worries about the security of Obama's grandmother living in Kogelo, Kenya.

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7 November 2008

Porro Music and Dance in La Loma, Colombia

Written by David Sasaki · Hiper-Barrio, Video

Catalina Restrepo from the HiperBarrio project in La Loma, a small hillside town on the outskirts of Medellín, Colombia, produced this video to show the importance or porro music in her community.

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6 November 2008

Hipperbarrio: Community and Beyond

Written by Rezwan · Hiper-Barrio, Feature

The HiperBarrio project in Medellín, Colombia continues to inspire local communities as members and participants connect to the Internet via the public computers of libraries to post images, videos and write about their lives in their blogs. Through these citizen media tools they reach to the world.

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