Caricia Catalani was interviewed by KALX 90.7FM in Berkeley for their series on innovative approaches to graduate research. She discusses our work in New Orleans, using a community-based participatory research approach to video.
Listen to the radio interview.
Check out some pics of our presentation at this year’s American Public Health Association meeting. We had a great time with our friends from REACH NOLA. Our presentation was packed, standing room only. We presented with a panel of incredibly inspirational experts of community-based participatory research.
Today, I will be doing a presentation with the Institute for the Future for their conference on Health Horizons. Check it out!
Health Horizons 2009 Fall Conference-Health and Health Care 2020 Making the Future: Strategic Action Retreat
November 16-17th at Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausaltio, CA.
As 2009 draws to a close, a number of major challenges continue to loom over health and health care in the United States. These challenges have the potential to cause dramatic disruptions in our social, political and economic systems. Rather than being overwhelmed by these challenges, it is critical to look ahead and make decisions with this long-term future in mind.
This Health Horizons member retreat caps our year-long journey into the future of health and health care. Throughout the year, we have highlighted the potential impacts of emergent trends in health and health care: we developed the HC2020 Signals & Forecasts Map, and four alternative scenarios depicting different shapes of change (visit www.hc2020.org to watch scenario videos). During the conference, we will continue to explore some of these key shifts by taking deep dives into developments in neuroscience, genomics, and patient engagement as well as work through a process for using this information in strategic planning.
Rohit Bhargava, a blogger for Social Media Today, posted 100 social media ideas to protect our environment. Here are the top 4, including engaging impacted communities in participatory video production.
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For the next three days the World Bank here in Washington DC is hosting a world changing event that few people know about. Called the Development Marketplace - it is a gathering of organizations behind 100 innovative ideas from 50 different countries on how to save the planet. The ideas can affect everything from a small village of 60 to a large population of millions. The only requirement is that the funding request from organizations participating must be less than $200,000. As I went through the list of projects that are being featured in the marketplace, there were 10 that stood out to me not only for the creativity of their solutions, but also the lessons that anyone might take away from the idea.The best ideas solve big problems, but also offer a lesson that could apply to much more than just the situation at hand. Reading the stories of all the innovative organizations presenting at the Development Marketplace gives you a sense of hope about the world that can sometimes get lost in our daily lives. Check out the stories below, and the rest of the great projects from Development Marketplace 2009 … these are stories and ideas worth sharing:
1. Wave Energy Converter to Mitigate Ocean-Wave Damage and Beach Erosion
Country: Dominican Republic - Project #4949
Organization: Universidad Nacional Pedro Henrique Urena (UNPHU)
Description: Waves currently cause a large degree of the devastation from storms, including destroying bridges, roads and other vital infrastructure. This project is about using wave energy converter (WEC) technology to lower the power of waves and convert some of this power into usable electric power.
Lesson: Your greatest source of energy can come from the same thing that also causes the most destruction.2. Rate-and-Shame Project Would Raise Media Pressure On Public Officials
Country: Ukraine - Project #4886
Organization: Resource and Analysis Center “Society and Environment”
Description: Local governments in the Ukraine tend to rely on central government to take adaptation steps to deal with climate change, however the results of action (or inaction) are most felt at the local level. This effort involves creating a public rating system for climate change initiative and rating local officials on their performance, in an effort to use transparency to shame inactive officials into action.
Lesson: Giving people someone to blame can encourage action.3. Saving Glaciers: Artisanal Industry Aims to Stop the Melt and Save Water
Country: Peru - Project #4311*
Organization: Glaciares Peru
Description: Increases in global temperature are causing the world’s largest freshwater reserves — glaciers, to melt. Tropical glaciers are most at risk, which includes those high in the Andes. This project is to build a production facility that will create a paintable white cover material that can be applied to existing black rocks near the glaciers so they do not absorb as much heat and the glaciers melting will slow.
Lesson: The best way to deal with a problem is to sometimes focus on what is right beside it.4. Global Voices: The Vulnerable Make Videos to Speak Out on Climate Adaptation
Country: Bangladesh, Colombia, and Sri Lanka - Project #3768
Organization: Institute of Development Studies
Description: Use participatory video (PV) training to allow people without strong voices in the community to share their stories and thoughts about climate change through video to the world.
Lesson: Video can help amplify voices that are usually silent on an issue.
Join us for our scientific session at APHA. We will be talking mostly about the New Orleans VideoVoices experience and its implications for public health research & advocacy.
Learning Objectives:
During our video and website presentation, members of our community-academic-film partnership will: 1. Describe the use of videovoice methodology. 2. Present a community-based participatory film identifying community health links to the built environment in post-Katrina New Orleans. 3. Discuss the implications of this practice for community health research, advocacy, and communication.
Keywords: Community Health, Communication
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.
This month, the VideoVoice Collective partnered with TLM, a microfinance organization in West Timur, Indonesia that we connected to through our friends at Kiva.org. We’ve had an incredible experience with TLM here in the far East of Indonesia. They work to give small loans to low income people so that they can start or grow their small businesses. Small businesses range from seaweed cultivation to pig farms to tempe production. Together, we trained staff at the microfinance organization to use video to evaluate client satisfaction and to advocate for improvements in the microfinance industry.
The staff did an incredible job! Most hadn’t used a video camera before this training. After just 2 days of training, they had taken about 10 hours of footage and were well on their way to producing their first video. Check out our pictures below or the whole VideoVoice in Indonesia slide show, images of microloan entrepreneurs in Indonesia that our videovoice team spoke to about the impact of small loans on their lives.
Videos are forthcoming!
Anthony Veneziale, West Timur VideoVoice Training
Microloan Interview: Fishing Business
Microloan Interview: Tempe Production Business
Microloan Interview: Egg Business
Microloan Interview: Legume Business
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