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Kyyjärven Mediamyllarit ry - Geographic Inclusion
Overcoming the disadvantages of living in remote areas, or bringing together communities of interest over a very large region; helping people in these circumstances to have the same quality of access to digital technologies and support to use them, as is available in larger population centres.
Nopola News is a local online news portal where news items are mainly provided at a grassroots level by citizens of Kyyjärvi town and surrounding areas. Approximately 10% of the town’s population contributes to the online media articles; associations, societies, businesses and individuals in the town also provide the news content thus creating information chains that promote and strengthen communalism. By providing a userfriendly content management system and training citizens in computer and Internet skills, local people are able to create and publish online content themselves with basic computer skills, linking together a small, sparsely populated and isolated rural community.
Further information on Kyyjärven Mediamyllarit ry and Nopola News is available from their website, www.nopolanews.fi or alternatively in case study format on www.epractice.eu
Click here to view a short film on the project - plays as windows media video
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| Representatives from Kyyjärven Mediamyllarit ry receiving their Trophy |