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Workshop on Citizen Journalism and New Media

Citizen Journalism is act of citizen playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. It has put democracy back in people's hands. Citizen Journalists, equipped with mobile phones, portable cameras, and blog, are rapidly becoming alternative media as a reliable and wide-ranging source of information throughout the world. Citizen Journalism plays an important role on development of the society towards spreading information, unearthing corruption or just spreading news on anything happening in the community.

This workshop will give the participants an opportunity to empower themselves with the know-how’s of Citizen Journalism and the new media tools. It will explore the ways and means on how to become citizen journalist!

Theme	Citizen Journalism and ICT for social development.
Objective of the workshop	Promotion of Citizen Journalism through the use of new media tools.
Organiser	Assam Times – community news portal
Technical support	Mahiti, Bangalore
Associate Organiser	North East Journalists Association
Date/Venue	Please see the event calendar
Participants	Representatives from NGOs, students and anyone want to become a Citizen Journalist. From NGOs, the ideal participant will be the one who is responsible on reports writing, dissemination, and documentation. The basic criteria of the participant is be (1) good communication skills in English (written/verbal), (2) knowledge on usage of the Internet/email, and (3) experience in writing/journalism.

Please note:

Venue and date: Workshop venue will be informed to the participants by email and SMS.
Selection: Due to limited resources, only selected candidates will be invited to join the workshop. There will be no travel or accommodation allowances provided to the participants.
Participation fee: Rs.200/- to cover the cost of tea and lunch, etc.

Incentives to the participants:

Hands on learning opportunity on new media and ICTs.
Capacity building to become a Citizen Journalist.
Support for initiating community based programmes.
ID Card after successfully submitting 25 news reports or articles on Assam Times.

Oranisers:

1. Assam Times (www.assamtimes.org): Assam Times is a pioneer in Citizen Journalism in Assam; it has been online since March 2008.

2. Mahiti (www.mahiti.org): Mahiti is a 'Social Enterprise' based in the 'Garden City of India, Bangalore'. We empower clients to reduce the cost and complexity of Information Technology through the strategic use of Free/Open Source Software.

3. North East Journalist Association (www.neja.in): Association of journalists from Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura.

Workshop dates, locations and respective contact person:

Date	Location	Contact Person	Phone & Email
20 February	Nazira	Jitu Gogoi	98548-55403
21 February	Namrup	Jayanta Konwar	98541-90967
22 February	Duliajan	Ghanakanta khanikor	97078-24442
23 February	Digboi	Rajen Sharma	9864655010
24 February	Tinsukia	Nowantik Orang Biren Koiry	9954020046 9435338326
25 February	Jorhat	Prasanta Bora	98643-40948
26 February	Sarupathar	Anuj Bora	94352-34153, 98644-99417
28 February	Diphu	Madhurjya Dhekialphukon	94351-67138
2 March	Haflong	Anup Biswas	9435077625, 9954263070
3 March	Silchar	Satyananda Sarada	9435500860
5 March	Udalguri	Daobaisa Boro	9435441493
6 March	Silapathar	Bhaskar Tayeng	94352-58560, 98599-92593
9 March	Dhubri	Prabir Roy	94350-29111
10 March	Guwahati	Ratul Baruah	98641-16679