Event: Workshop on Citizen Journalism and New Media

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Citizen Journalism is act of citizen playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. It has put democracy back in people's hands. Citizen Journalists, equipped with mobile phones, portable cameras, and blogs, are rapidly becoming alternative media as a reliable and wide-ranging source of information throughout the world. Citizen Journalism plays an important role on NGOs on information dissemination for widely spreading their messages to community.

This capacity building workshop will give an opportunity to the development workers to empower themselves with the know-how’s of new media tools. It will explore the ways and means to become citizen journalist!

Theme	Citizen Journalism and ICT for social development.
Objective of the workshop	Promotion of Citizen Journalism through the use of new media tools among development workers.
Organiser	Foundation for People Empowerment, Guwahati.
Date/Venue	July 27, 2009 at Guwahati July 29, Shillong
Participants	Representatives from Civil society organizations. The ideal participant will be the one who is responsible on reports writing, dissemination, and documentation. The basic criteria of the participant is be (1) good communication skills in English (written/verbal), (2) knowledge on usage of the Internet/email, and (3) interest in writing/journalism.

Workshop venue and agenda will be informed shortly.

There is no participation fee to join the workshop.

Due to limited resources, only selected candidates will be invited to join the workshop.

There will be no travel or accommodation allowances provided to participants.

Tea/refreshment and lunch will be provided during the workshop.

Oraniser:

Foundation for People Empowerment (www.fpe.net.in)

Foundation for People Empowerment works towards development of the society through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It has been working towards awareness of ICT tools among the civil society organizations and empowering them with hands-on training. The organization offers various technical support and training programs.

To participate in the workshop, please fill up the attached application for and send the same by email to us on or before July 24, 2009.

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