archive for the 'Migration & integration' Category

Recommendations for migration and social media

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

In our search for the state of social media we presented initiatives working on the theme of migration and identified their challenges (see previous blogposts). During the round table conversation several ideas for possible solutions came up we would like to share with you:

Create valuable networks of initiatives and people active on the theme of [...]

Challenges for migrant media pioneers

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

In our last blogpost on social media and migration we reflected on the question how social media initiatives have empowered and facilitated migrant communities in the past few years. The report was based on a round table we organized with different pioneers and stakeholders. We found that initiatives play a role in connecting Diaspora and [...]

Social media empowering migrant communities

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Last June 18th. we organised a round table session on social media and migration. Migrant media projects are one of the interesting clusters of projects supported by the Digital Pioneers Fund in the past few years. We decided that is was time to think about the state of migrant media as it is now [...]

First findings round table social media & migration

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

We had a great round table last Friday on social media & migration! We had representatives of Turkish, Maroccan, Islam platforms, Chinese Radio, a documentary project for women with HIV and a wonderful participation by Sriram Guddireddigari who came all the way from India. Thank you all!

You can find more pictures on the round table [...]

Round table session on social media & migration

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Tonight we are hosting a round table session on social media and migration in cooperation with the European Bridge-IT network and Maroc NL. Together with different stakeholders working as researcher, activist, programmer, digital pioneer or civel servant in the field of migration and/or social media projects, we will address the following questions:

In what ways does [...]