Stories and Articles About Our Work

Transparency is hard to come by in the bureaucratic process of land rights in Ukraine. Deriban.net, a crowdsourced web site, was launched to give individuals, journalists, and legal advocates a way to track and report violations of land rights and usage. Watch Crowdsourcing Land Rights in Ukraine to understand the problem and the project. Read more »

This article from the International Journalists' Network covers some social media tools used by Internews’ Earth Journalism Network.

Local stories told through social media help drive global discussions on issues like sustainable development and climate change. Read more »

In October 2010, Armenian schoolchildren documented numerous cases of physical abuse at the hands of teachers using the cameras on their mobile phones. However, as Armenian journalist Seda Muradyan noted in her 2011 Knight Fellowship presentation at Stanford University, few people saw the videos until six months or even a year after they were shot, when they were uploaded online and swiftly went viral. Read more »

Take Back the Tech

At the culmination of the Take Back the Tech! Training, a collaborative international campaign that unites and empowers women to utilize information and communication technologies, Internews will showcase the digital stories produced by young Afghan women at a screening on March 8th.

The four-day training enables participants to use ICT platforms for advocacy to end gender-based discrimination. Twelve young Afghan activists from five provinces will attend the training and produce digital stories. Read more »