Global Voices Online has announced the first five citizen media outreach projects to receive Rising Voices microgrants.
"The overwhelming response is a testament to the global enthusiasm forcitizen media that stretches from Southern Chile to rural Nigeria, froma village in Mali without electricity to urban Mongolia; from anorphanage in Ethiopia to a center for disabled HIV/AIDS patients inKenya. The list goes on and on, but what all of the project proposalshave in common is a desire to enable their communities to tell theirown stories, to write their own first draft of history, to documenttheir traditions and culture before they are washed away by the tidesof globalization."
Congratulations to all those receiving the grant - I really believe this is a huge step for blogging outreach programmes!
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