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CREATIVE LAB
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YXC link to youthxchange content
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MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
AdBusters Media Foundation - a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Above all – they claim - “we will change the way we interact with the mass media and we will reclaim the way in which meaning is produced in our society.” [www.adbusters.org] YXC
Advertisers Anonymous (AA) - is a network of culture-industry professionals (and passionate hobbyists) whose lives have been disrupted, damaged, or destroyed by advertising, marketing, public relations, and media saturation. Their internet site is devoted to visual counter-propaganda, and contains useful links to other analogue initiatives… [www.critpath.org/illcompute/mission.html] YXC
African Youth Foundation (AYF) Scholarship Award - this writing contest is for Africans between the ages of 18 and 30, with a vision on how ICTs could help their generation and nation to create jobs and eradicate poverty. The deadline for submitting papers is September 9 2005. [www.comminit.com/awards2005/scholarships2005/awards-1112.html]
AlterNet - is a highly acclaimed Internet information source that provides readers with crucial facts and passionate opinions they can't find anywhere else. Its website is designed to serve as your ‘online helper’, leading individuals, policy professionals and journalists alike to sources for information and insight. [www.alternet.org] YXC
APC Betinho Communications Prize - was launched to mark APC's tenth anniversary in 2000, and to recognise and document outstanding examples of how the Internet can make a real difference for the world's communities today. There are thousands of projects big and small working online around the world that prove that the Internet can be, and is being, used as a powerful tool for development and social justice… [www.apc.org/english/betinho/index.shtml]
Environmental Media Association (EMA) - devotes itself to educating people towards sustainability and creating widespread awareness of environmental issues. To achieve its goal, EMA ‘uses’ TV and radio entertainment programs and celebrities to serve as models and examples to look up to. [www.ema-online.org] YXC
Freeplay Foundation - is committed to promoting the importance of radio as a vital medium in the developing world, primarily in Africa. Community radio gives local populations the opportunity to express their own culture, language and style and to address issues, which are relevant to them. Ever wanted to be a deejay? Have your voice heard by thousands? Now’s your chance - get in touch! [www.freeplayfoundation.org] YXC
Global Junior Challenge (GJC) – ICTs are offering younger generations across the world unprecedented opportunities. In 200, the City of Rome has launched the GJC to help all young people play a leading role in the emerging Information Society. All projects that are using ICT for education and training of young people and are up and running at the 30th of September 2001 can join the competition. There is no geographical or size limitation for applicant projects. The GJC welcome every kind of project: from the web site created by children of a primary school to a global e-learning environment for online training. [www.gjc.it/2002/en/index.asp]
Indymedia - Independent Media Center (IMC), better known as Indymedia, is a network of collectively run media organisations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate telling of truth. The Indymedia newswire encourages people to “become the media” by posting their own articles, analysis and information to the site. [www.indymedia.org] YXC
International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) – through a global network, it provides a rapid, worldwide and co-ordinated response to press freedom and freedom of expression violations. IFEX focuses on areas where the threat appears more evident without excluding, anyway, other countries (especially industrialised ones) where violations are very often subtle and hidden. [www.ifex.org] YXC
Internews International – it fights for the rights of journalists and the media through a network of media lawyers. It enhances tolerance and understanding through its support of independent media in emerging democracies, produces and distributes innovative television programming, and uses the media to reduce conflict within and between countries. [www.internews.tv/home/index.php]
Living Earth Television (LETV) - has grown with the help of countless individuals and organisations. LETV brings programs created in and by communities all over the world to a wide, intercultural audience. Programs selected promote tolerance and understanding among peoples of different backgrounds and traditions. [www.livingearthtv.org]
Radio Regen - where ‘regen’ stands for ‘regeneration’ - is a community radio operating in Manchester, UK. Its Re-Mix The Streets initiative is a project involving socially excluded young people in radio work so that they can gain social recognition… [www.radioregen.org] YXC
Sustainability.TV – they develop/produce streaming video (live transmission and video on demand, both accessible via internet), electronic news media (on the web, via SMS and the like), communication tools (chat events and discussion groups, opportunities for video-conferencing), data banks and interactive games especially dedicated to the theme of sustainable development in Europe. [www.sustainability.tv] YXC
World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) - is an international competition for youth-led projects that encourage the active participation of young people in the emerging Information Society. It is the first global 'youth for youth' initiative for selecting and promoting best practice in e-content and technological creativity, demonstrating young people's potential to create digital opportunities. [www.comminit.com/awards2005/awards2005/awards-1096.html]
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