This just in from Gary Copitch, Peoples Voice Media, 96k partners in Manchester. Community Reporters not just Nationwide but now going into Europe? Next stop the United Nations Gary?
"I believe that we need more thinking to create sustainable communities, and the right to describe their own reality is one of them" Simon Safari chair of the Tenants' Association Botkyrka Stockholm.
I have just come back from the "Breaking the Silence" conference in Stockholm where I was speaking about Community Reporting and using social media as a community engagement tool.
Other presenters included the Botkyrka Community Theatre an innovative dance project that used dance and drama to produce local guides using local residents. Megaphone ,a youth project which worked with people on a local estate to get there voice heard. Rouzbeh Djalaie also described "Your Local Newspaper " that works in Stockholm and distributes 37 000 copies of Järvafältet. The conference had a Skype presentation from the MEM project, an EU-Project for Civil Rights and citizenship operating throughout europe and coordinated by MIRA Media in Holland. This project emphasised the importance of creating a sustainable living contact with the local community.
For more information on the event look at the report on the Din web site which is unfortunately in Swedish but can be translated using google translate.
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