Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2012 Winner

Building A Community Newswire Service


Description

Video Volunteers aims to democratize the media and empower marginalized communities to voice. We train communities to produce news, watch it, take action and devise solutions to endemic problems. We have trained over 100 people; over 500 videos have been made; they have been watched by over 300,000 people in outdoor screenings and by hundreds of thousands more online. We have records of over 17,000 people taking action after seeing these videos. Lack of connectivity in rural areas remains our biggest challenge. Nevertheless, we are committed to growing our network to 645 correspondents – one in every district in India.

Project website

http://indiaunheard.videovolunteers.org/


Action lines related to this project
  • AL C9. Media 2012
Millennium development goals related to this project
  • Goal 1: Eradicate poverty and hunger
  • Goal 3: Promote gender equality & empower women
  • Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Coverage

Status

Completed

Start date

15 May 2010

End date

15 May 2018


Entity name

Video Volunteers

Entity country—type

India Civil Society

Entity website

http://www.videovolunteers.org

Partners

United Nations Development Program Witness Knight Foundation Echoing Green YouTube