The Project:

Detailed Project Overview

After months of training on blogging, podcasting and vidcasting, we started to realize that mobile phone text messaging was the most intuitive, cheapest and most effective way of sharing news and updates from the groups.

When cataclysms occur the network will be ready to bring news from the touched area.

In fact all the Foko members have mobile phones and developed skills in updating news channels such as Twitter.

What else have you done in this area?

In less than 10 months we've been expanding in 4 large cities in Madagascar and trained 100 youths to Citizen Media. With only 20000 internet users but 100 times more people connected to mobile phones:  we are focusing on bringing news and stories from the provinces by using new media tools.

• http://club.foko-madagascar.org/feed/
• http://www.foko-madagascar.org/feed/

• Cause Areas:

  • Civil Society and Governance

• Prize Tag:

  • USAID

• Project URL:

  http://club.foko-madagascar.org/

• Organization supporting your project:

  Rising Voices from GlobalVoicesOnline

• Supporting Organization URL:

  http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/

• Does your Project have financial support?:

  Yes

• Is the impact area of your Project global?:

  No

• If no, what country(s) does it impact?:

  Madagascar

• Supporting Organization State/Region:

  Netherlands

• Supporting Organization Country(s):

  Netherlands

The Assessment

The Team