Training 150 Community Video Producers in india
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More Information About this ProjectProject Needs and BeneficiariesTo support the creation of Community Video Units among the poor across India, employ local Producers to create Video Magazines every month on critical social issues, and to distribute these videos to a wide audience in slums and villages to create social change. The beneficiaries will be hundreds poor & marginalized individuals, thousands of people within their communities and the NGOs supporting them. ActivitiesCreation of 10 new Community VIdeo Units in 2007, and distribution online and on TV. Each CVU will have 5-10 local Community Producers in partnership with a local NGO. Monthly Video Productions shown on widescreen projectors and loca cable. Funding InformationTotal Funding Received to Date: $11,135 Additional DocumentationThis project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf). ResourcesWhy this Project is ImportantPotential Long Term ImpactWith the creation of a Network of 100s of Community Video Producers, we can give a voice to 1000s of poor communities in the developing world and democratize the media. Project Message
The purpose of Community Media is not to show the bad that is happening in the world, it is to ask what you intend to do about it." Who is Running This ProjectContact
Jessica Mayberry, Project SponsorOrganization
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This project is located in For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India. When this Project was UpdatedLast UpdatedThis project was last updated on August 07, 2008. Date Added to GlobalGivingThis project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 16, 2006. Latest Update from the FieldAn Update from Video VolunteersBy Jessica Mayberry - Founding Director, August 07, 2008 04:52 PM
Since VV's last update, we have grown our network to comprise 12 Community Video Units, and 75 Community Video Producers. We have begun looking seriously at two aspects. One is mainstream distribution, where we have begun to distribute our media on Current TV and CNN IBN, an Indian CNN company. The other is sustainability, where VV has created a partnership to work with the leading business school in India (Indian Institute of on how to make community media sustainable. these two courses of action are indicative of what is unique about our model of community media--that it aims to eventually impact the way mainstream news is made, and that is is creating a 'media industry at the base of the pyramid' which must be financially viable. In the midst of all this, the Community Producers still remain at the heart of what we do. I now see them not so much as Trainees, but as creative activists who are making media, and whom we help and advise as needed. It is so extraordinary to watch their transformations. A final high point of the year: VV was one of the winners of the Knight News Challenge, one of the most respected initiatives in news and information. You can read more about the challenge below. Read 1 more "Updates from the Field" | Comment on this update How Else You Can HelpShare and Save Spread the Word on your Profile, Blog, or WebsitePut a widget for this project on your profile, blog or website to turn your friends into givers. Using our widget, it's quick and easy to add this widget to your profile or blog!
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