GV or rather RV is accepting proposals from local communities.

rising voicesRising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the first round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new 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.

Examples of potential projects include:

  • Purchasing an affordable digital video camera and teaching a group of rural students how to produce an ongoing video-blog documentary about the lives of their grandparents.
  • Organizing a regular workshop on blogging and photography at a local orphanage. Portions of the budget could be used on cheap digital cameras and internet cafe costs so that participants could describe their local neighborhoods to a global audience with text and photos.
  • Working with a local NGO or social entrepreneur so that their challenges, successes, and stories are told to a global audience.
  • Translating our new media curriculum to an indigenous language, like Quechua or Wolof, that is currently not represented in the blogosphere or “podosphere.” Then use the learning modules to encourage bloggers to write in those languages.

Read detail information here.

Some ideal projects I have in mind are something like featuring activities of Mae Sout Medical center or Orphanage centers or Buddhist-Temple-Schools. Even something like featuring blogging seminars done by Service+ (so I heard) or whatever interesting projects they doing to promote web awareness to local communities and vice versa. So I hope such organizations/individuals would try to apply for this grant and make a good use of it. I wish some groups from Fiji apply too, I don’t see much of internet activities from Fiji except for the growth of political blogs and social network users such as Hi5 and Friendster.

Anyhow…You can grab an application form here. Mind you though, due date is just around the corner: June 15, 2007 so you gotta do it quickly.

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