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We Matter: An Internet Campaign That Shares Hope and Healing with Indigenous Youth

Media & JournalismMarch 30, 2018

"With our positive stories, we are not saying that everything is easy. We are saying that things might get hard but there is always a way forward."

How Indigenous Communities Are Using Data to ‘Reframe’ Their Narratives Through Digital Storytelling

EcuadorFebruary 8, 2018

"Tools of this kind can become an element to analyze our communication work and guide us in choosing the best way to respond to the information generated by traditional media."

Searching for ‘indios’ in Ecuador and Venezuela: A Lesson in Language and Data

Culture ShotsFebruary 8, 2018

What happens when the data doesn’t support the story we first set out to tell?

Small but Mighty: Struggles and Achievements of the Sarayaku

EcuadorNovember 7, 2017

The Sarayaku people, a small indigenous community in eastern Ecuador, are rarely in the news. They live near the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. But twice in the past several years, they have grabbed the attention of Ecuadorian national media in small, but important ways.

“Violence was the concept in dispute”

EcuadorOctober 26, 2017

Reframed Stories asks people to respond to dominant themes in news coverage about themselves and the issues that affect them. The stories center on the reflections of persons who are more...

“We need to find different ways to respond to media”

EcuadorOctober 18, 2017

This silence and the words that are missing in the communication spaces helps me think that we need to find different ways to respond to media.

“Media is just interested in covering conflict and blood”

Latin AmericaOctober 13, 2017

Media is more interested in covering just struggles, conflict, and blood, and it does not care about other topics that are also important to us. In Sarayaku, we are devoting a lot of effort to the promotion of the Kawsay Sacha, our proposal for a way of life that invites to a peaceful coexistence with the environment, with one self and with others.