People In Ecological Hot Spots of Armenia, Make Your Voice Heard
- Citizen participation
- Conscious consumerism
- Environmental justice
- Sustainable development
- Public policy
- Transparency
- Water Supply
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Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
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Burnazyan
EcoLur Informational NGO
More than 5 years
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Growth (your pilot is up and running, and starting to expand)
Operating for less than a year
On Sotq webpage, www.ecolur.org/blog, the campaign is run against disposing production facilities by Geopromining Company into Sevan drainage basin. Sevanis the water priority of Armenia, which has 34 billion square meters of freshwater reserves and is protected by Armenian Law “On Lake Sevan”. The company operates in contrary to this and other Armenian laws, the Armenian President’s political will expressed in autumn 2009 and in contrary to the conclusion issued by the Supervisory Chamber by the Armenian Parliament, where it says the Public Prosecutor’s Office should start investigating the activities of Geopromining Company. Sotq Villagers signed a letter of protest against the activities of Geopromining Company and were supported by Dilijan Town residents through EcoLur blog and social networks (see Dilijan webpage in the blog and materials in “Sevan” section on www.ecolur.org). The network has called on other activists in hot spots to support Sotq villagers.
We are trying to help people who, as a result of the high risks of corruption in the sphere of nature, deprived of water, territory, and whom do not pay compensation for allowing their habitat.
The population learns how to protect its interest without directly clashing with heads, who may exercise pressure on them and get support from other regions, NGOs and social groups. This has a positive vector of development within the next 1-2 years. Five years is rather a large period for forecasting results taking into consideration rapid technological progress in multi-media technologies. We will likely master new opportunities and incorporate them into our project. What about idea repeatability, the module developed by us can be used in other thematic areas such as human rights protection or gender. Just external information parameters should be adapted to the specific topic.
To set up prerequisites for the first Armenian Public Environment Internet TV, to make EcoTV platform, which can be used by all
To develop a project to create the first Armenian Public Environment Internet TV – Eco-TV
To hold internet conferences and to discuss topics in the Ecolur-blog which later may become main topics for Eco-TV
Find people holding the same ideas and willing to take part in EcoTV project.
To provide Eco-TV with equipment
To prepare a series of TV reports based on SOS alarms from ecological hot spots under common title of “Please, Reply Mr. Ministe
To hold a series of TV bridges from the hot spots based on SOS signals in the format of “Burning Territories” TV shows with TV r
More than 10,000
More than 10,000
Non-profit
The main barrier is non-stable funding, which is allotted in the form of grants. Armenia like other countries in transition period has no existing practice of donation for public interests. We are seeking to overcome this barrier by opening EcoLur branch in the countries where such practice is available and to find a partner interested in setting up the first public environmental internet television.
We see the development in mobile communications, which assumes more and more of functions from multi-media technologies and which is suitable for rapid response.
Our modules give an opportunity to get adapted to the particular situation. If there are no conditions for setting up public television, we will use non coast-based technologies, for example, the work with blogs based o SMS and MMS messages, information exchange through Facebook and Twitter.
Taking part in grant competition and receiving invitations from donors
Since 2005 EcoLur has held the coordination of 15 public campaigns, out of which 4 campaigns were a success, 7 documentaries shot, 21 projects implemented, funding from 14 donor organizations. You can find all the information about our partners, donors, programs, public campaigns, documentaries and EcoLur administration from www.ecolur.org in “About us”.
Professional people will be involved in the project, as well as volunteers and people interested in the outcomes - local activists, NGOs, socially active movements, especially those in formation stage.
Human resources or talent, Collaboration or networking.
Human resources or talent, Research or information, Collaboration or networking.
The information displayed on EcoLur website is unique, as it’s a kind of information file for all current environmental problems – forest, wastes and mining (see http://www.ecolur.org/en/hot-spots/34), and where yoи can get comprehensive information about each problem - information from the scene based on alarm signals, news and standpoint of official department, expert and analytical information, photo and video materials. You can follow chronological development of the problem in the file.
Since 2005, EcoLur has run 15 public campaigns,7 documentaries, implemented 21 projects,& received funding from 14 donor orgs.