Thursday, January 31, 2008

Jordan and Kuwait: New Public Service Announcements

In December 2007, representatives of Jordanian and Kuwaiti civil society organizations successfully produced their own Public Service Announcements (PSAs), after undergoing digital media training organized by the New York-based organization, Barefoot Workshops. The training taught participants how to conceptualize, film, produce, and edit their own PSAs, and provided these organizations a new tool for engaging a wide audience of fellow citizens on key issues of public concern.

Some of the PSAs have already been screened on television and posted to the participant organizations’ websites. All of the PSAs were posted on YouTube, where they have already been viewed in Arabic and English by more than seven thousand visitors. To watch the PSAs, click here.

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