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Fifteen years after Guatemala’s Peace Accords ended 36 years of civil war, many young Guatemalans continue to be marginalized from political life. While 70 percent of the population is 30 years of age and younger, voter turnout statistics reveal that few young people register and exercise their right to vote, the online magazine Albedrio reports. Political parties, in an effort to capture this untapped resource, have led strong campaigns on youth marketing issues. However, many young candidates and members of youth organizations say this does not translate into real and effective participation. Youth are interested in participating in political life, but most parties are not willing to give them space as they do not have the financial resources to fund a campaign.
VOZZ will be a citizen journalism training project in which young Guatemalan citizen reporters aged 16-24 years old – the ages of the highest abstention rates in more than 40 percent of the population – learn the fundamentals of journalism and reporting in Spanish and Kaqchikel. The project will be launched in Guatemala as a test pilot to coincide with the 2011 presidential election.
Vozz, a name created by youth in Guatemala City’s crime-ridden Zone 1 to capture the spirit of having a voice or voz to their stories, will create opportunities for youth to be trained by local reporters and seasoned election trainers, to share their stories from their municipalities, and to distribute those stories under a Creative Commons License on http://www.vozz.com.gt.
Nadia Sussman and Kara Andrade will local nonprofits and civic groups to recruit a core group of young reporters (2 youth from 20 municipalities) to first hold a two-day “bootcamp” in Guatemala City to train them on the fundamentals of journalism, election reporting and multimedia tools for reporting. We will ensure diverse coverage of stories concerning the election from rural, indigenous areas where very little reporting is done and from a youth perspective that is very seldom heard. Guatemalan youth will be trained as citizen reporters to produce this body of multimedia stories before, during and after the 2011 Guatemalan presidential elections and will travel to their communities, as needed, to help them with the reporting and production.
We are fundraising from other sources for the total $5500 budget for the project, but the $3000 raised on Spot.Us would go towards:
Student Travel (42 students X $40 each roundtrip with meals from their rural communities): $1,680
Nadia Sussman Travel from New York: $500
Meals: $820
Total: $3,000
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Nadia Sussman is a multimedia journalist in New York City. Her writing, videos, photos and audio have been published in The New York Times, NYTimes.com, ABC News and The San Jose Mercury News. In 2010, Nadia was selected as a Carnegie Fellow at ABC News’ Brian Ross Investigative Unit.
Nadia has traveled extensively in Guatemala and Central America since 2007. In 2008, she was one of 4 journalists awarded a travel grant by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to document conflicts over forest conservation in the jungles of northern Guatemala. She serves on the board of HablaCentro.com. HablaCentro.com is a local mobile-driven network of regional citizen information websites in Latin America where contributions can be anonymous. Contributors, especially young people, from each country share and discuss information in various languages, including local indigenous languages.
Nadia received a master’s degree in journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism in May, 2011. She earned a B.A. in political science from Yale University in 2003.
Kara Andrade is an Ashoka fellow working in Central America. Previously she was funded by the US State Department to implement a mobile-based citizen journalism website called HablaGuate. She was the Community Organizer for Spot.Us, an open source project that focuses on community-funded reporting. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Masters in Journalism and has ten years of experience in nonprofit development, public health and community organizing. She has worked as a multimedia producer and photojournalist for Agence France-Presse, France 24, the Associated Press, the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times and the Oakland Tribune.
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Nadia Sussman es una periodista de multimedia en Nueva York. Sus artículos, videos, fotos y audio han sido publicados en The New York Times, NYTimes.com, ABC News y The San Jose Mercury News. En 2010, Nadia fue seleccionado como becario en ABC News’ Brian Ross Investigative Unit.
Nadia ha viajado extensamente en Guatemala y América Central desde 2007. En 2008, fue uno de los cuatro periodistas que otorgó una beca de viaje por Pulitzer Center for Criss Reporting para documentar los conflictos sobre la conservación de bosques en las selvas del norte de Guatemala. Es miembro del consejo de HablaCentro.com. HablaCentro.com es un local móvil impulsada por la red regional de sitios web de información ciudadana en América Latina en que las contribuciones pueden ser anónimas. Colaboradores, especialmente a los jóvenes de cada país comparten y analizar la información en varios idiomas, incluyendo lenguas indígenas locales.
Nadia recibió una maestría en periodismo en City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism en mayo de 2011. Ella ganó un B.A. en Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Yale en 2003.
Kara Andrade es una becaria de la organización Ashoka, la asociación global de emprendedores sociales líderes en el mundo, y co-fundadora de HablaCentro.com. HablaCentro.com es una red regional de sitios locales en América Latina donde se puede contribuir información por móvil de parte de ciudadanos y donde las contribuciones pueden ser anónimas. Anteriormente, fue financiada por el Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. por un beca Fulbright para implementar un sitio web móvil de periodismo ciudadanos llamado HablaGuate.Com. Ella fue organizador de la comunidad para Spot.Us, un proyecto de código abierto que se centra en al auto-financiamiento de periodismo. Se graduó de la Universidad de California en Berkeley, con una Maestría en Periodismo y mas de tiene diez años de experiencia en el desarrollo sin fines de lucro, la salud pública y la organización comunitaria. Ha trabajado como productor y periodista multimedia para la Agencia France-Presse, Américas Quarterly, France 24, la Associated Press, el San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, el Oakland Tribune y otros.
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A core group of young people will be producing three completele audio, video, photos and written packages for public media use both within the country and for international syndication.
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Un grupo de jóvenes van a producir tres historias completas de audio, video, fotos y paquetes redacctados para los medios de comunicación y para uso público, tanto dentro del país y para la distribución internacional.
