Pacific Black Box: community development projects in the Pacific Islands
July 31st 2008 23:34
Bougainville is one of the largest Solomon islands, and is part of Papua-New Guinea. There's a strong secessionist movement on the island, as the locals try to free themselves from their big-island government.
There's a reason to be interested, though... Bougainville is home to Rio Tinto's copper mine, a fabulously rich vein of metallic copper that is just waiting to be picked.
Pacific Black Box is an Australian non-profit that aims to organize community development projects in places like Bougainville, where instability makes it unreasonably difficult for the native inhabitants to sustain themselves.
The above short is one of Pacific Black Box's projects: enabling the youth of Bougainville to express themselves through 'digital storytelling' - at the minimum, raising awareness of the conditions on the island.
Till now, have you heard of Bougainville? If you've watched the clip, it's already worth its price in bandwidth.
From the press release:
"In April of this year, Amanda King and Fabio Cavadini, joint Heads of Documentary at Sydney Film School travelled to Bougainville to take part in the Pacific Black Box (PBB) project. Coordinated by Taloi Havini and Georgia McRae, who established PBB Inc in early 2008, this is an incredible environmental advocacy project aimed to equip the local youth from the Carteret Islands with the skills and resources needed to raise awareness of the fate of their island paradise homes through digital storytelling."
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p/s...thanks for the education
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