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Home  News Call for project proposals on citizen media outreach
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Call for project proposals on citizen media outreach |
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5.11.2007. |
Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is currently accepting
project proposals for the second round of microgrant funding of up to
$5,000 for citizen 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.
Rising Voices aims to help bring new voices from new communities and
speaking new languages to the conversational web, by providing resources and funding to local groups reaching out to underrepresented communities. Examples of potential projects include:
- Convincing a group of graffiti artists to transfer their medium of expression from walls of buildings to blogs, podcasts, and online video.
- Approaching a local NGO with the offer of training their participants to blog and upload video in order to document the NGO's work and the community where the participants live.
- Distribute $10 digital cameras to two different groups of the same community and create a Flickr group where they confront each other's photographic perspectives of their city.
- Distribute mp3 recorders to participants of a youth group and help them produce monthly audio documentaries featuring elders who describe how their community has changed over the decades.
This second round of funding differs from the first in one important
aspect. You have the choice to submit your application via email as
before or you can publicly post your proposal on the Global Voices' wiki and receive feedback on how it can be improved. Public applications can be posted on the wiki at any time and can be reworked as often as the applicant sees fit, but all applications must be finalized by the November 30 deadline.
Rising Voices outreach grants will range from $1,000 to $5,000. Successful projects will be prominently featured on Global Voices.
If you would like to submit your proposal privately via email you may do so by downloading the application and emailing it to
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by November 30.
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