Following our launch as Media Trust Beacon Hub, which took place recently at Channel 4 on April 19th we will to holding a Development & Networking meeting to talk about our citizen journalist project, …

Jazz Rasool,
Global Net 21 Learning Coordinator.
Power is both a verb and a quantity.
You can have power and power up something.
Empower is a verb.
Should it be a quantity too -something you can have an amount of?
Power …

Matt Daw
Projects Manager
PhotoVoice
At no time in human history has there been such an opportunity for meaningful voice-democracy as there is now. The challenge that faces our society, and every individual within it, is to …

Jayne Thorpe is a writer/journalist, sharing the story of inspired living and giving. She’s currently working in conjunction with BBC presenter Kate Humble’s organisation “Stuff Your Rucksack” as she visits local initiatives across the …

By Pamela McLean
A teacher-learner, who learns by doing and shares what she learns
Co-founder of Dadamac – http://www.dadamac.net
I’m considering “What is the relevance of Citizen Journalism to the project I’m currently helping to launch?”
The project …

Katie Rose
www.therosewindow.org
Much of contemporary mainstream media is still based on concepts of theatrical realism articulated by Denis Diderot in the 1780s – who instructed:
Whether you compose or act, think no more …

In March 201, GlobalNet21 ran a workshop with the Migrants Resource Centre on Podcasting to encourage them to use podcasting as a tool of citizen journalism. Here are some photos of that workshop.

You can view …

The Migrant Resource Centre works with migrants and refugees and in partnership with other agencies, to effect social justice and change, enabling migrants and refugees to fully participate in this society. They work with …

In this Presentation Jay Lakhani expresses the view that religious experience should be transcendental and spiritual and not based on the word of a prophet or any prescribed creed. To do the latter always means …

The 21st Century is likely to be marked with increasing instability and security challenges across the globe, as the combined impacts of resource shortages, climate change, ethnic and religious polarisation and …

We recently did a Webinar on Combating Poverty and Famine in Africa where Kato Ssekah Abdu gave a really excellent presentation and his power point slides were really detailed and useful for anyone interested …

Education reform has been piecemeal and haphazard rather than focused and strategic and those responsible for policy making have failed to engage key stakeholders – learners, parents and practitioners.
In this Presentation Tony Breslin will lead …

Combating Famine, Poverty, illiteracy and ill health in Africa; A case study of Integrated Community Development Initiative (ICODI)
Africa is a continent with dreadful poverty and problems of resource shortages. Estimates are that climate …

Civil Society is much more than what we call the voluntary sector or non-government organistions. It is the many thousands of community associations across the country that engage in a variety of different activities.
This Presentation …

At times of financial restraint and when Governments are looking at how civil society can be recruited to deliver on their own agenda then how can we ensure that the many associations that make up …

What is the “proper” relationship between religion and politics in today’s world and is the re-emergence of religious groups and indeed religious fundamentalism both nationally and globally the result of the failure of the secular …

GlobalNet21′s Learning Coordinator, Jazz Rasool,
discusses his experience of facilitating effective
collaboration in communities and groups.

For a summary of this process on one page refer to the link:
http://bit.ly/Hbv6d2
For a quick 3 minute overview on video, watch :
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The Media Trust has now invited GlobalNet21 to become a Beacon Hub for their lottery funded Citizen Journalist project. This will link us to a Single Publishing Interface to enable those stories that members …

Here is a Blog written by David Wilcox who presented a Webinar for us with Joe Taylor of Natcam. You can find it in David’s interesting site http://socialreporter.com/?p=2011
Summary: local activists and volunteers need to …

Matt Daw is Projects Manager at the international charity PhotoVoice (www.photovoice.org), an organisation that works in partnership with NGOs all around the world designing and delivering participatory photography projects with marginalised and vulnerable groups. These …