GSDM to support Informed Reporting campaign

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:45:00 +0000

Global South Development Magazine has extended its hands to a student initiated media awareness campaign that seeks to promote an ‘informed reporting’ of the developing world.

Named as Informed Reporting, the campaign was designed and initiated by 6 young students from the University of Helsinki and the University of Vaasa who met this autumn through a media course called ‘Journalism for Social Change’.

The campaign website (http://www.informedreporting.org) has been formally launched today. The site offers a platform that has the potential of bringing together development journalists and media activists both from the Global South and Global North. The campaigners claim that the platform will help development as well as citizen journalists to share their knowledge and experiences in reporting the developing world. In addition, they will have the chance to engage in a meaningful dialogue and discussion.

As a partner organization, Global South Development Magazine will be promoting the campaign’s activities in the days to come.

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GSDM Expands its Global Team, Fenton Assistant Editor, New Special Correspondents for South-to-South Cooperation, Development Aid & Conflict States

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:10:00 +0000

Global South Development Magazine has expanded its global team for the fourth time in the year 2011. The latest list includes 8 new faces in the team, whereas, for the first time in its history, a Regional Editor has been promoted to an Assistant Editor.

The magazine’s Latin America Editor Ioulia Fenton, nowonwards, will be working as an Assistant Editor, whereas, Noah Marwil, who also works as a Regional Director for a US based grassroots NGO Pencils of Promise,will be the magazine’s new Regional Editor for Latin America.

The magazine has appointed four special correspondents who will cover a wide range of developmental issues that range from developmentand democracy in Africa to south-to-south development cooperation.

Scott Ruddick, an international development specialistand an established freelance writer and photojournalist, will be working as a Special Correspondent for issues related to development aid and conflict states. Mr Ruddick is an experienced figure in conflict and post-conflict aid and most recently has worked in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cambodia, Thailand, Malawi,Tanzania and Iran.

Another special correspondent, Irene Mwangi, will be covering issues of development and democracy in Africa with special focus on women’s participation in development and democratic processes in Africa. In the past Mwangi has worked as the Africa Director for World Youth Alliance and has been involved with many grassroots projects in Africa.

Aparna Patankar, a Guatemala Fellow for the US based Pencils of Promise, will be the magazine’s special correspondent for global education issues, whereas, Hriday Sarma, a Master’s in International Relations with experience in development work and peace building, will be examining issues related to south-to-south global cooperation as a special correspondent of the same issue.

Marita Haug, who also works as a board member of the Board of Directors in Plan Norway, will be GSDM’s country correspondent for Brazil, and Mohamud Hassan, a media activist who runs a renowned blog about the children of Somalia will be the magazine’s first country correspondent for Somalia.

The magazine’s reach has been expanded as far as the tiny Caribbean nation of Haiti. Emily Cavan Lynch, a public health consultant and freelance writer and photographer with previous experience in Rwanda, will be covering Haitian development tales from Port-au-Prince and the vicinity.

A complete list of GSDM global editorial team is available here

Publishing dates rescheduled

Mainly due to a large number of submissions and workload to the editorial team in Finland, the GSDM team has rescheduled its publication dates. The new schedule will give the editorial team in Finland more time to select from the submitted stories,edit, design and publish them on time. Previously the gap between the submission deadline and the publication date had been only 15 days, however,according to the new schedule, the gap has been increased to 30 days. On that basis, GSDM’s upcoming issue will be available on 15 October 2011 whereas the subsequent issues will be available on the following dates.

15 October 2011

15 January 2012

15 April 2012

15 July 2012

A Short Documentary from Pakistan Awarded the Title 'SilDistance Video of the Year'

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:39:00 +0000

Tormented Souls, a short documentary on violence against women in Pakistan has been awarded the title SilDistance Video of the Year 2011. The documentary was written and directed by Fawad Baig, a SilDistance participant from Pakistan. Mr Baig, who also works as a programme producer for PTV, Pakistan Television Corporation, did the documentary as part of his final project for SilDistance Fundamentals of Social Filmmaking Programme, a 12 week long distance learning programme of Silver Lining Creation Ry, Finland.

An evaluation committee applied a range of criteria that ranged from importance of the topic to creativey and technical clarity before granting the title to Tormented Souls. In total 7 documentaries had competed for the title.

The title SilDistance Video of the Year is awarded to the best selected documentary or a short film submitted by SilDistance participants as their final project. The award includes a letter of appreciation and materails that help the winner to excel in social filmmaking. SilDistance is Silver Lining Creation's distance learning portal where selected students particulary from the developing countries have the opportunity learn, share and hone their skills on social filmmaking.

Tormented Souls can be watched on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R1TOriWSaU

Fawad Baig

New faces at Global South Development Magazine

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:27:00 +0000

Silver Lining Creation Ry has announced four new names of special correspondents and country correspondents who will be working for Global South Development Magazine. The list includes two special correspondents and two country correspondents from Burundi and Nigeria.

Aliza Amlani, a graduate of London School of Economics, will be working as a special correspondent for global health issues. Ms Amlani, currently based in Bogotá, Colombia, is also working for an NGO in psychosocial rehabilitation of displaced people and ex-child soldiers.

Another special correspondent, Deanna Morris, a member of the Masters in Sustainable International Development program at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, will be covering issues related to livelihoods and global economic affairs. Ms Morris has international development experience in Central America, Africa and South-East Asia, working in the field of poverty reduction, microfinance, project design and implementation and capacity building.

Samuel Adikpe, who also works as the Registrar of Certified Institute of Development Studies, Nigeria’s pioneer think tank and development studies institute, will be working as Global South Development Magazine’s Country Correspondent for Nigeria. Mr Adikpe holds a Master of Science degree in Mass Communications from the University of Lagos and was the founder of a youth-serving NGO called Youth Vision Plus.

Whereas, James Belgrave, an MA in Development from IDS at Sussex (UK), will be covering developmental issues from Burundi, a landlocked country in East Africa. Mr Belgrave has worked on sustainability and CSR in London in the past. Experienced in disaster risk reduction, climate change and the environment, food security, land and agricultural issues, as well as a variety of conflict and post-conflict humanitarian issues, he also works for the United Nations system in Burundi.

With these appointments, the number of GSDM global editorial team has reached 29. The upcoming issue of GSDM will be published on 1 April 2011 and will focus on farmers’ suicides in India.

A complete list of GSDM editorial team is available here

Silcreation at colourful Espoo

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:04:00 +0000

Silver Lining Creation participated the Colourful Espoo event on Saturday, 5 February.

The event was organized by the Lutheran Parish of Olari, its workers and volunteers with the purpose of gathering people with multicultural background, Social organizations and give them an opportunity to present their work.

A team from Silver Lining Creation Ry participated the event and presented its short video products. The SLC team also briefed the Silcreation projects to the participants.

The Event followed by :

City Walls (music)

Wafa Alami-Eerikinharju (Working together -project)

Cambodian Dance Group

Introducing Silverlining Creation organization

Common Responsibility Campaign (helping lonely people in Finland and in Mosambik

Nepalese food

and dozens of active participants

Silverlining Creation will be participating Colourful Espoo on 12th March again and will be showing a documentary, most likely Shadwos of the street(2010).

Meet Silverlining Team on 12th March 2011 at Colourful Espoo again !

Social films screening event: Films by the people, for the People

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Silcreation and Clip Kino welcome you to the social films screening event “Films by the people, for the people” organized at Arkadia Internatioanl Bookshop on 29.11.2010 at 18:00.

The event will introduce activities of Silcreation and present the concepts of social filmmaking and participatory video making. Recently, Silcreation launched an online TV channel called Global South Development TV (GSDTV) which focuses on developmental issues of the developing countries. The organization also has a twin platform in print media form called Global South Development Magazine (GSDM) which is a highly acclaimed magazine managed by a global team.

These platforms are for contributions and social film productions of Silcreation, independent social filmmakers, journalists and writers, development activists, and the grassroots people who have “no place” in society to live a dignified life; and people who have “no voice” to stand for a social change in the name of humanity. The event will screen social films and clips from different countries such as Finland, Nepal, Tanzania, Bangladesh and more: countries with hearts and minds diverse in all and united in one: To give voice to the voiceless, and power to the powerless.

Event Details:

Silver Lining Creation ry Finland

Clip Kino Helsinki

Films by the people, for the people

Mon 29.11. at 18-20

Arkadia International Bookshop

Pohjoinen Hesperiankatu 9

www.silcreation.org

www.clipkino.info

www.arkadiabookshop.fi

The event is supported by a multi-cultural grant from Arts Council Finland.

Silcreation introduces new global team for Global South Development Magazine

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:36:00 +0000

1 Oct 2010(FINLAND)

Silver Lining Creation announced a new global team for Global South Development Magazine on Friday. The team consists of 19 members who represent a diverse range of regional and professional background.The newly declared team has an editor-in-chief and an assistant editor along with five regional editors, three special correspondents and nine country correspondents.

Among the new comers, Lingson Adam and Kristina Gubic will be working as regional editors for East and Southern Africa respectively, whereas, Khalid Hussain has been given the responsibility of covering South Asia. Ioulia Fenton and Catriona Knapman have been appointed for the same post from Latin America and the MiddleEast.

Mary Namusoke will be covering women’s issues from Africa as a special correspondent. Similarly, other two special correspondentsRoxanne Irani and Sandeep Srivastava will cover global environmental issues and the issues of climate change.

Nine country correspondents will be reporting about developmental issues from their home country or from the country they are based in at the moment. The nine country correspondents are Levi Tebo Mbah, (Cameroon),Fady Salah, (Egypt),Hannah Martin, (Ghana) Dr.P.V.Ravichandiran, (India),AtikAmbarwati, (Indonesia),Era Menchavez-delaPena (The Philippines) ,Moses C Masami, (Tanzania),Kimbowa Richard, (Uganda),Jasen Mphepo, (Zimbabwe)

Members of the global team were already able to make contribution to the magazine’s October issue. The executive editorial team reported that the number of its global team will increase in the future as Silcreation is assessing several applications of other applicants who want to work for the magazine.

Global South Development Magazine is a brainchild of Silcreation Finland and was established in 2009.The magazine has received widespread response since its first publication in March this year.

Know more about our global team (with photos)

Silcreation raises funds for flood victims in Pakistan.

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:08:00 +0000

As part of its humanitarian assistance programme,Silcreation organized a fundraising event to raise money for flood victims inPakistan. The one day event was held at the premises of Diaconia University of Applied Sciences, Järvenpää-Finland, on Wednesday.

Dozens of students, teachers and other professionals donated money throughout the day for the humanitarian cause. As the event was organized in association with the Finnish Red Cross, all donation boxes were handed over to local Red Cross officials afterwards. Finnish Red Cross along with other aid agencies has already been operating one of the most active and effective relief campaigns in flood affected Pakistani hinterlands.

Earlier in mid August, Silcreation executive board had decided to respond to the natural disaster in Pakistan by taking fundraising initiatives and raisinga wareness through the use of modern means of mass communication and social networking sites. Silcreation’s coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance and Human Rights Promotion Saila Ohranen was given the responsibility of humanitarian assistance initiatives. Silcreation’s Executive Director Manoj Bhusal and Coordinator Sudip Joshi also participated the fundraising event.

At the moment Pakistan has been grappling with the worst natural disaster in its history. The deadly floods have claimed more than two thousand lives damaging almost a million homes. More than 20 million people have been directly affected by the floods. The United Nations has requested $460 million for emergency relief – in other words, money to provide the most basic necessities in the short term like food, temporary shelter, clean water and health care.Several aid agencies have responded to the disaster by launching emergency relief campaigns, but reports say the effort has been scanty given the colossal damage caused by the disaster.

Individuals, institutions and friends and supporters of Silcreation willing to help the flood victims in Pakistan are requested to contact humanitarian aid agencies such as Red Cross, Save the Children, Oxfam in their home countries. Please contact Silcreation’s Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance and Human Rights Promotion Saila Ohranen for further information. She can be reached at saila.ohranen@silcreation.org

Silcreation and MAG Nepal organize a documentary screening event in Kathmandu, Nepal

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:17:00 +0000

Silver Lining Creation ry Finland (Silcreation) and MAG Nepal screened Shadows of the Street (2010) documentary on 6th of Augustin Kathmandu, Nepal. The program was held in Russian Cultural Centre, where there was a presence of about 200 people. The audience was comprised of the public and officials from different INGOs and NGOs such as American Himalayan Foundation, World Vision International, Save the Children Nepal, Sanga Sangai,Human Development and Community Services (HDCS) and Navjyoti Center. The event also involved media coverage from Himalayan TV, Republica, The Kathmandu Postand National TV.

The also included a drama based on the lives of street children in Nepal. The drama performance was not only entertaining, but also important for raising awareness and inspiring thought on street children-related issues. It described street children’s everyday life struggles and activities;explained reasons why children are compelled to live in street; and it also presented the changes revolved around their social inclusion into society. The event was entertained by a Nepalese cultural dance performance and atraditional music play, which were held by social work students of St. Xavier’sCollege.

Prakash Khanal – Silcreation’s representative in Nepal - announced the prospects of setting up a Silcreation South Asia headquarters in Nepal in near future, which therefore would further expand its activities and social cause globally.

The audience was found to be thankful for the documentary that dealt with such a sensitive issue in Nepali society. Furthermore, it was well-received for awareness raising purpose and inspired the proposal forsetting up a campaign motivated to support street children. In future, SilverLining Creation and Mag Nepal aim to release a social campaign called“Survivors of the Street,” which will focus on making a difference inchildren’s lives worldwide, who are dwelling in the street.

Numerous opportunities also came along with the venue. The Committeeof Miss Nepal requested the organizers to present the documentary and interview Miss Nepal participants during their contest. Moreover, Kadambari School of Social Work asked to screen the documentary on 4th of September in a national seminar dealing with the subject of child labour. Apart from that, we have received more supporters who are willing to contribute to our social campaign designed for street children.

Silver Lining Creation and Mag Nepal would like to send their utmost gratitude to the following sponsors and contributors: Nepal Tourism Board,Prisma Advertising, White Horse, Himalayan TV, Republica, The Kathmandu Post, NationalTV, Photo concern Private limited, Social Worker Esther Thapa, Suresh Dhungana,Achala Dahal, Dr. Padma Lama, and Students of St Xavier College. We wish toalso thank the audience for their participation and support and last but not least; street children for being the heart of the venue and the better future we are seeking to realize.

Silcreation to launch a development TV channel!

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:13:00 +0000

Silcreation executive board meeting held today has formally decided to launch an online development TV channel in the nearfuture. The channel will be named as Global South Development TV and will freely available to everyone. The board meeting also decided that the channel will be formally inaugurated on the 15th of October 2010.

Silcreation has been actively working on the development of user led social media initiatives since its establishment, and this move can be taken as a significant step towards contributing to the two top prioritiesof Silcreation- promotion of citizen journalism and active citizenship through activating user participation and modern means of mass communication. More importantly, thechannel has been expected to be a powerful means of sharing knowledge and disseminating developmental experiences within and outside the developing world. The development TV channel will feature development initiatives, documentaries, social films and programs basedon other social

environmental and developmental issues in general.

The meeting also decided to respond to the natural disasters in Pakistan by facilitating fundraising through the use of modern means of mass communication and social networking sites as well as building short-term partnership with other aid agencies such as Red Cross.Silcreation’s coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance and Human Rights Promotion will be primarily responsible for the humanitarian assistance initiatives.

In addition, the meeting also decided to grant permission to Silcreation South Asia to operate as Silcreation’s official representativein the south Asian region.

Having assessed its organizational structure and legal stipulations in Finland, the executive board decided that people interested in Silcreation projects will be able to register themselves as Volunteers of Silcreation or Supporters of Silcreation, however, won’t be ableto apply for direct membership from outside Finland. Instead, they are encouraged to contact Silcreation’s partner organizations in their home country or to apply for establishing Silcreation’s branch in their locality.Nevertheless, everyone will be able to register themselves to Silcreation’s website and be an active supporter of the organization and its initiatives.

Screening of Shadows of the Street (2010) in Kathmandu

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:46:00 +0000

Shadows of the Street Screening Venue

Friday, August 6, 2010 at 5:00pm

Russian Cultural Centre - Kamalpokhari, Kathmandu Nepal

Free entrance

“Shadows of the Street” (2010) is a documentary which presents the story of a 13 year old boy who has been living for four years in the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal. The screening venue concentrates on street children-related social issues. Why do children become street children? How is life in the street? What are the risks and dangers that they face in street? Street children are among the severe examples of children who face social exclusion in society. Not only are they deprived of their basic needs and rights, but they're also vulnerable targets and victims of atrocious acts.

Welcome to Shadows of the Street screening venue to express your solidarity for street children who aspire to see a better day and to live as dignified members of society. The documentary is presented by two non-profit organisations: Silver Lining Creation and Mag Nepal. Unicef-Nepal and CWIN-Nepal have also provided their gracious contribution. The venue includes presenting the documentary, music play, drama, photo exhibition and brief discussion on the subject. Special guests include Ms. Sumnima Tuladhar from CWIN-Nepal and Bhanu Pathak from Unicef Nepal and more.

Welcome to the venue! We thank you in advance for your participation and support.

Silver Lining Creation and Mag Nepal

The Bankarias(2010)- A documentary coming soon!

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:06:00 +0000

The documentary is based on one declining ethnic minority group of Nepal called ‘Bankaria’. The Bankarias were 'found' in the jungle of the malarious valley of Chure Hill on the top of Hadikhola in a very vulnerable condition nearly about a decade ago by some journalists.Nobody knows how many generations they have spent their life in the jungle and have remained unidentified. But this tiny group of 70 members were 'rescued' from the jungle and resettled in homes. However, they are not still far from the jungle and safe from a steephill stream.

The documentary features their experiences of living in the jungle and,portrays, most importantly, their genuine struggle for rights,justice, dignity and a big phrase ‘actual Identity’. Moreover, it also talks about the efforts made by different organizations to improve their situations and a mild criticism on development.

The Bankarias(2010) an indigenous tale was written and directed by Silcreation's Assistant Director Som Chaulagai.