by Eleni Maria Rozali
This past month while exploring the ICT4D, the concept of healing has been coming up very often from people who have engaged in the process of participatory media.
Having been a music producer in the earlier stages of my career and having felt the healing powers of music, I felt compelled to write an article about music as a method of participatory communication and how it has been used to revoke negative female stereotypes.
by Jenn Warren
CHOMA Magazine is your best friend and big sister – inspiring, supporting and motivating you to make informed positive life choices to live healthily and HIV free [1].
Embracing technology in an effort to reach adolescent and teenage girls, CHOMA Magazine exists exclusively online and on mobile. Meaning hanging in Zulu, CHOMA focusses on young girls and women between the ages of 15 and 25 years, whether they are at school, unemployed or employed, or single, in a relationship, or married.
by Taylor Pittman, shared by Eleni Maria Rozali
Women who joined an online movement supporting reproductive rights were greeted with nasty responses.
A is For, a nonprofit organisation devoted to women’s reproductive rights, put a twist on Jimmy Kimmel’s popular “Mean Tweets” series and featured women who have participated in the #ShoutYourAbortion movement. Amelia Bonow and Lindy West, two activists who started the hashtag, were featured in the video as well as comedian Margaret Cho and actress Martha Plimpton, who pointed out she had many tweets to choose from.
by Laura Saxer
Hollaback! [1] is a movement against sexual street harassment operating on glocal levels: it is spread globally while powered by local activists in urban places. Its mission is to better understand street harassment and to develop innovative strategies to ensure equal access to public spaces.
Hollaback! wants to end street harassment by employing mobile technology.
by Jenn Warren
Through my work with Grassroot Soccer South Africa, I learnt about this interesting citizen journalism project that took place at the GRS-managed Alexandra Football for Hope Centre around the 2010 World Cup [1]. In collaboration with Hillside Digital Trust, Siyakhona Africa was created by citizens from the Alexandra Township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, as a means to further their voices and shares important news and issues within the community.
Click through to watch a video by citizen journalist Suzan Khosa that highlights the serious issue of rape in the Alexandra Township.
