DDJC members from the 48217 community will be part of the Detroit Story. Presentations will be given 6pm Wednesday, August 24th at the Detroit Marriott. They will highlight their challenge with polluting industries in their community and solutions they would like to see implemented. All Detroiters are welcome to attend.
For more information, see http://www.cleanairinfo.com/ejconference/
We’re thrilled to announce that we started the distribution of our third zine at the Allied Media Conference last weekend! A Big thanks to everyone’s hard work and contributions. Catch up with a DDJC member if you’d like to get a printed copy or learn more about getting involved in the collaboration.
PDF for viewing online here and PDF ready for print and distribution in your community here.
Saturday, April 30 · 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Allied Media Projects
4126 3rd St
Detroit, Michigan
(FREE of Charge)
Future City Media Workshops, part of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, presents Social Media Strategies from Egypt’s Revolution to Detroit’s Economy, the first of a bi-weekly Saturday Speaker Series.
Social Media Strategies from Egypt’s Revolution to Detroit’s Economy is an open workshop and discussion examining how social media was an instrumental tool in voicing the people’s frustrations and aspirations during the ongoing revolutions in Egypt and across the region. Featured speakers from the Middle East and North Africa will discuss how the combination of building community online and off brought the power of the people together. This workshop will also share best practices and how-to guides in using social media tools. From twitter to texting, attendees will learn how to build communities and opportunities with social media technology.
Featured speakers include:
Atef Said (Egypt, Human Rights Attorney and Organizer)
Khaled Mattawa (Libya, Poet and Professor of Creative Writing, University of Michigan)
Lottie Spadie (Detroit Digital Justice Coalition and Eastern Michigan Environmental Action Council)
Nadine Naber (Author and Professor of Arab American Studies, University of Michigan)
Childcare will be provided for attendants.
For more information or to RSVP please contact joe@alliedmedia.org
The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition is comprised of people and organizations in Detroit who believe that communication is a fundamental human right. We are securing that right through activities that are grounded in the digital justice principles of: access, participation, common ownership, and healthy communities.
The mission of the series is to have community dialogue on creative communication strategies and digital justice. The series runs every other Saturday till July 31st starting Saturday, April 30, 2011.
The Future City Media Workshops are made possible through a grant awarded to the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DDJC) by the the Broadband Technology Opportunity Program of the American Recovery And Reinvestment (Stimulus) Act.
The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition presents:
Future City Media Workshops
Offering FREE 22 week workshops in:
Audio / Graphics / Video / Web
…Education / Grassroots organizing / Entrepreneurship
OPEN HOUSE INFORMATION SESSION: WEDNESDAY, FEB 16TH, 7-9PM
@ ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS 4126 THIRD AVE
The Future City Media Workshops are 22 week trainings for Detroiters interested in building a community media economy and an awesome future for Detroit. The workshops will offer advanced training in audio, video, graphics, and web design skills. They will also offer training in digital media education and entrepreneurship. Participants will graduate with the unique skill sets necessary to train other Detroiters in digital media, create their own jobs, foster cooperative forms of community wealth creation, and support media-based community organizing for a better Detroit!
The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition is comprised of people and organizations in Detroit who believe that communication is a fundamental human right. We are securing that right through activities that are grounded in the digital justice principles of: access, participation, common ownership, and healthy communities.
YOU SHOULD APPLY IF YOU:
▲ have some experience in creating digital media.
▲ have some experience in teaching -or- have some small business experience.
▲ are between the ages of 18-80.
▲ are dedicated to creating a community media economy and an awesome future for Detroit.
Space is limited.
If you have any questions, contact: joe@alliedmedia.org
The Detroit Media Economy Collaborative (DMEC) is hiring.
Detroit Media Economy Collaborative’s overarching goal is to cultivate a community media economy in Detroit. Over the next two years we will implement programs grounded in the digital justice principles of: access, participation, common ownership and healthy communities.
DMEC is a project of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, and is administered by coalition member organizations Allied Media Projects and the East Michigan Environmental Action Council. Evaluation and Documentation for DMEC is provided by the Open Technology Initiative.
Program Goals
The long-term goals of this program are to:
We are hiring the following positions:
Digital Media Program Coordinator (full time)
Youth Media Program Coordinator (full time)
Education Specialist (full time)
Audio Instructor (part time)
Video Instructor (part time)
Graphic Design Instructor (part time)
Web Development Instructor (part time)
Logistics Coordinator (full time)
Communications Coordinator (full time)
Media Lab IT Coordinator (part time)
Documentation and Evaluation Coordinator (full time)
The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DDJC), in partnership withMichigan State University, is receiving approximately $2 million in federal stimulus funds to support its community organizing and economic development efforts in the Detroit area.
Over the next two years, the grant will support partnerships between local digital media entrepreneurs and teachers to integrate digital media arts into the core curriculum of area high schools. It will work with teams of young people to enhance the online presence of local small businesses and community organizations. The program will also provide training and outreach to build a sustainable local market for digital services.
This program expands on the DDJC’s ongoing deployment of affordable mesh wireless broadband networks and its series of local Discovering Technology “DiscoTech” neighborhood fairs. As part of the federal grant, the Small Business Training and Development Center will be providing support for digital media entrepreneurs and small businesses.
“As more Detroiters create their own jobs – from computer-repair to soil-remediation to independent record labels – high-speed Internet access and digital media skills are essential. Young people have an important role to play as teachers and innovators in this growing information economy. Through this program we will expand our communities’ capacity to transform Detroit from the ground up,” said Lottie Spady, Associate Director of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council, a member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition.
The DDJC is part of a city-wide effort by hundreds of community organizations and individuals to address Detroit’s most pressing challenges through creativity and collaboration.
“The year-long process behind this grant offers a replicable model for how grassroots organizations can come together across a diverse spectrum of issues and communities, synthesize a vision for citywide change and then organize to make that vision real,” said Jeanette Lee, Program Director forAllied Media Projects, a member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition.
The federal grant is through Michigan State University, which has also received stimulus funding to expand computer centers in rural and urban communities throughout the state. In addition to providing training and outreach, the Digital Justice Coalition is supporting ten local computer centers in Detroit and Hamtramck. The grants are part of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), created through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 and administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion, which has promoted civil rights and social justice in Detroit since 1941, is serving as the fiduciary for the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition.
Kurt DeMaagd, assistant professor in MSU’s Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, who is leading the statewide project, said, “Broadband adoption has the ability to transform Michigan’s urban areas into information economies. This project gives high school and college students an opportunity to make a difference firsthand in their communities with MSU training and support.”
The grant is focused on Michigan’s Cities of Promise – Benton Harbor, Detroit, Flint, Hamtramck, Highland Park, Muskegon Heights, Pontiac and Saginaw, and expands MSU work already underway throughout Michigan, DeMaagd said, complementing a $6 million grant announced in August to create more public computer centers in Michigan’s urban areas. With an earlier round of funding – a $1 million grant announced earlier this year – MSU began installing computers in 88 existing library computer centers and establishing new centers to provide broadband access for people in rural areas of Michigan.
“Combined, these three grants will have impact throughout the state of Michigan. They will help transition Michigan to an information economy, which is crucial to economic progress,” said Pamela Whitten, dean of the MSU College of Communication Arts & Sciences, which houses the grants.
