Voces Bolivianas expands to a remote city of Bolivia

On July 5 Voces Bolivianas started its workshop in Beni, a remote district in the Amazon region. Trinidad is the name of the city, the eighth in Bolivia where the Voces Bolivianas workshop was held. Ericka Pinto worked with 19 participants to teach them the basics of blogs and help them open blogs. Univalle, a local university let them use the computer lab free of charge. Workshop Images courtesy Ericka Pinto From Ericka’s blog Alkolica we learn that it was a challenge because of a epidemic of Mayaro epidemic (a strain of dengue) but they succeded. Here is a link to the new blogs created in Beni (Trinidad). If you follow the project blog of Voces Bolivianas you have probably read about Gabriel Zuleta from Voces Boliviana Santa Cruz Project who is a budding citizen journalist: Gabriel has the making of a great citizen... [read full story]