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Story-Making Machines: Audioboo 26 Aug 2013 | 12:19 pm
Rising Voices note: This article originally appeared at Transom.org, a showcase and workshop for public media, with Story Workshops twice yearly and a new Online Workshop. The article is republished w...
Getting Offline for Digital Security: Working with Tibetans in Exile 22 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
In order to promote online digital security awareness, sometimes you have to go offline. This is particularly the case where internet connections can be slow and power cuts are frequent, such as in t...
24 Hours to Hack for Mexico 19 Aug 2013 | 01:07 pm
Reporters Without Borders consistently ranks Mexico among the most dangerous places for journalists and netizens. Every year, reporters and citizen journalists are killed in Mexico by criminal cartels...
Soap Operas for Cultural Preservation: Mexico's First Indigenous Telenovela 16 Aug 2013 | 02:06 pm
Here at Rising Voices, we often focus on new, digital media technologies as tools for social change. But what about the power of more traditional media, such as television, to empower indigenous commu...
A Journey Towards Social Entrepreneurship 15 Aug 2013 | 12:35 pm
Kofi Yeboah is a student at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, in the social sciences, a blogger who often writes for Global Voices. Recently he attended a summer course for young innovators, and wr...
Rising Voices Roundup: Aug 1 – Aug 13 14 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
What's happening at RV This week we are excited to be in Córdoba, Argentina with our grantee project Radio Los Inestables. They started last week with the first workshops teaching the participants ab...
MediaShala: Data visualization in India 13 Aug 2013 | 12:44 pm
This post, by Maria Grabowski, was originally published by the engine room. This is the third in a series of posts to profile resources that are featured in the Social Tech Census. The engine room’s ...
Tell your Story Through StoryMaker and Win €1,000 9 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
Republished from Free Press Unlimited. StoryMaker is a new project of Free Press Unlimited. The App combines safety with editing software and an educational journalistic program to improve mobile sto...
Podcasting Democratic Change in Bhutan 9 Aug 2013 | 01:40 pm
The Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy is one of Rising Voices micrograntee finalists this year, and has recently completed the first stage of the project: training workshops in podcasting. This pi...
Romanticizing Indigneous People: Digital Barriers in South East Asia 6 Aug 2013 | 05:14 pm
At Rising Voices, we often publish about media and indigenous groups; perhaps obviously, the audience for these media is very diverse. While for some, digital media is highly integrated into society, ...
