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Dec 13th, 2007 - 05:12:06 |
talia delgado
After a year of absence we are back. It has been a hard period for BS and its team a time of obstacles, difficulties that seriously threatened the project.
After the success of 2005 a series of circumstantial issues forced us to not be able to continuous the project. A series of political circumstances related to corruption occurred in the country stop the Agency who was supporting funding of youth lead projects for almost a year and a half. On this time the organization who initially hosted our project dissolved and the original team leaved not only the organization but also the project.
We remained out of money, resources and team. Under this circumstances we were not able to keep carrying the project properly fact that harmed the publication.
We created a new organization called Alter Eco and NGO focused on empowering people on the usage of media as tool for social transformation who owns the project now and a new team. Most of our original collaborators leaved cause of the lack of activity and other remained faithful to the project. Now we are back trying to create a new network of collaborators. All the team thought that since we always has have a good communication with our collaborators and partners we should be honest with you and share this information. This year is a year of rebuilding and reconsolidation and we got good signals.
So among the positive encouragement that we received is the support on the initiative of the International Youth Foundation that besides all recognized the value of Brainstorming initiative and awarded us in Washington in November with the Youth Action Network award that recognized each year 20 awarded from all over the world in different categories for their outstanding as social leaders and social entrepreneurs. The prize helped us to regain confidence and also brought to us some media attention among them specialised publication on Youth Initiatives and Third Sector such as VITAEUROPE (www.vitaeurope.org) the first European magazine covering third sector news. They liked the idea and proposed a partnership with BS that we signed couple of weeks ago for the whole year we will work on together in few stories and we will be able to exchange articles and to write joined stories. So that means that some of your stories will be maybe also published on Vita Magazine.
Another important novelty for this coming year it’s the launching of BS Africa a branch of BS specialized in African Issues. We are working on this project more that two years now an we were forced to stop it for lack of resources but now we managed to start up again and to get some of our collaborators from Africa back and soon they will be in charge of contacting all our collaborators from Africa with new instructions and ideas and recruiting new ones. We would like to have it active in February 2008.We will keep you informed on this issue.
We are also planning new features, categories issues for BS so your feedback, ideas, suggestions and contributions areas always welcome.
We want to thank all of you for the letters mails and support that we got from all of you during the last year and try to our best to become again active and strong. We count on you, and together with your help we will succeed.
BS TEAM
PS. You can contact us trough:
BS forum http://forums.brain-storming.info/
TIG E-GROUP: http://groups.takingitglobal.org/brainsto/
E-MAILS: Info@brain-storming.info
Dec 12th, 2005 - 14:45:36 |
talia delgado
We are happy to announce that Brainstorming has been recently awarded!
During the ¨European Youth Week¨ that took place in Brussels, 5 – 11 of December 2005, Brainstorming was nominated for the EUROPEAN YOUTH AWARD in the category of ¨Best entrepreneur project in Europe¨ from a selection of more than 12.000 projects developed during the last two years under the European YOUTH Program.
Brainstorming obtained a ¨Honorific Mention¨ as finalist in the European Youth Award ceremony.
At national level the ¨Romanian National Agency for Supporting Youth Initiatives¨ decided to award Brainstorming project as ¨The best networking project¨!
We want to thank to all the collaborators and partners that contribute to this project and we hope to keep working in the future.
Nov 24th, 2005 - 10:55:02 |
talia delgado
´ALTER ECO - Communicating trough Media´´
Based in our direct work in the area of youth and media in Romania in the last two years the Brainstorming team created ALTER ECO - Communicating trough Media.
´´ALTER ECO – Communicating trough Media´´ is a non governmental organization created by a group of professional in the media and social field. ´´ALTER ECO´´ is promoting activities addressed to young professionals in the social, media and communication area aimed to inform and sensibly the public opinion and civil society about the social problems derivate from human rights abuses, social exclusion and xenophobia, corruption and disrespected of any democratic practices and basic human rights.
MISSION
The main purpose of ´´ALTER ECO - Communicating trough Media´´ is to give a voice to social issues trough media resources and non formal education actions. ´´ALTER ECO´´ is using the media formats as a tool to effectively approach the social problems and reinforce the media involvements in social realities as civil actor.
´´ALTER ECO´´ activities are focus on:
1. Creation of independent media formats (publications, bulletins, documentaries, radio)
2. Development of regional, international networking projects in the field of social, media and communication
3. Providing resources in consulting and advising within communication field
4. Training of young professionals in the social and communication field
OBJECTIVES
- To develop new communication formats among civil actors
- To increase knowledge about current social issues of different countries
- To foment the civil role of media in society
- To develop networking projects in media and communication field
- To organize an international network of young journalists interested in creating in using investigative and analytic journalism to explore social issues.
- To explore active forms of communication among countries and institutions.
- To encourage the active participation of young people in activities that help them to confront the social context
- To provide communication resources and strategies to organizations and institutions
- To train young professionals in media and social work
Nov 24th, 2005 - 10:45:28 |
talia delgado
23 NOVEMBER 2005
NEW SECTION LAUNCHED IN BRAINSTORMING
Brainstorming has created a new section where global politics issues are analyzed trough a series of investigative reports.
This section is open to any person that would like to contribute by sending articles, photo-reports and documents as support for it, as well as proposals for future investigation themes (previous contact to the editorial team is requested.).
The first series of articles are focused in the Middle East situation regarding the energetic policies and the political conflicts in the area derivates from the control of the petrol sources.
BRAINSTORMING ONLINE FORUM
The recent created forum offers different possibilities to our readers and collaborators.
The forum is structured in three levels of communication among users and brainstorming staff and collaborators.
JOURNALIST TO JOURNALIST
Section in which the collaborators of BS, has the possibility to comments their articles, exchange of ideas, tips and proposals for cooperation.
READERS COMENTS
The readers can express their opinions about the articles posted, send suggestions and to talk directly with the staff members.
STAFF FEEDBACK
Direct communication line of any kind with the staff members of BS.
PROJECTS PROPOSALS
Proposition of future projects and cooperation
Jan 31st, 2005 - 08:35:12 |
talia delgado
In December 2004 was launched the first number of the print version of Brainstorming and Investigative International View Publication .A total of 2000 numbers that were presented to the press and Romanian Public in the Nottara Theater of Bucharest in a big press meeting. Forty pages formed the print edition and is a bilingual edition Romanian -English containing analytic and investigative reports from young journalist from allover the world involved in the project. Brainstorming team is working now for the second number of this print version will be ready for summer of this year. The print version can be consulted in our web page and also readers can receive it by subscription .All of the interest in to have one exemplar can contact our team in info@braisntorming.info .Is available for particulars as well as for associations or ngo’s working with media, and Journalism Faculties.
Regarding the digital version new sections have been created and soon the page will publish also photo reports for different journalist.
The number of organization, collaborators and journalism institution from allover the world interest in became part of Brainstorming is growing and, also new projects are in process of being develop in the next months.
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