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This is soooooo good... I will not tell you that I understand the words... I will not tell you that I know the circumstances... I will tell you that until today I never had a chance ... to hear, to see, to feel.

Rayones by Jorge Jurado

posted by David Sasaki on Jan 30, 2008
categories: Video, Hiper-Barrio

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Rising Voices is an outreach initiative of Global Voices, which aims to extend the benefits and reach of citizen media by connecting online media activists around the world and supporting their best ideas.

Founded in 2004 by a group of pioneering international bloggers, Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore. However, over the years it became increasingly clear that certain regions, communities, and demographics were much better represented in the online global conversation than others. The bloggers we frequently link to on Global Voices tend to be urban, middle-class, and well-educated.

Rising Voices is an endeavour to spread the tools and techniques of citizen media to communities that are under-represented on the conversational web. We do this in three different ways:

1.) Microgrants - Thanks to the support of the Knight Foundation, we are able to award microgrants to outreach projects that teach the skills of citizen media to new users. In July of 2007 we announced our first round of grantees. Rising Voices will be awarding more microgrants in October 2007 and February of 2008.

2.) Outreach Curriculum - In collaboration with Tactical Technology Collective and FLOSS Manuals, we are in the process of developing a series of multimedia tutorials which explain how to use tools like weblogs, photo-sharing sites, podcasts, wikis, and online video.

3.) Networking - Rising Voices is a global network of people who are knowledgeable and passionate about citizen media and want to see the benefits of self-expression extended to communities that have yet to come across these tools. If you would like to get involved you can request an invitation to our mailing list and Facebook group.