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MissionThe DevCom Workshop’s overall mission is to demonstrate how digital multimedia can help to clarify some key policy issues in international development. For development practitioners, well-designed products can help frame policy alternatives and their consequences. For students and teachers of development, the random access character of digital media allows teachers to call-up materials to illustrate a variety of points of view and respond flexibly to “teachable moments” as they arise.OverviewThe workshop brings together mentors and students of development who seek to develop an understanding of how digital media can be used to multiply the effectiveness of their knowledge of international development. Helping to facilitate this interactive process, the Communications Program at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government annually sponsors several DevCom workshops. In addition, individual consultations with mentors help students to produce more effective multimedia products.Top WebsiteThe DevCom website supports the organization’s mission by facilitating participant information exchange, providing access to recordings of past workshops, showing samples of student work, and promoting the distribution of DevCom productions through its e-store at CustomFlix .Top People: DevCom MentorsCharles Mann is the founder of the DevCom Workshop and a development economist with a longstanding interest in development communications. In 1985 he came from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Harvard Institute for International Development. Among his other HIID assignments, for over 10 years he served the Government of Malawi as Food Security Advisor. He retired from Harvard in 2002. Michael Sheridan, an independent producer of film and video, left his position as lecturer in the Visual Arts department at Northeastern University in 2007 to become a Fulbright Fellow teaching filmmaking in Indonesia. Having earlier directed documentaries for Oxfam America and Bread for the World, he has a special interest in international issues of social and economic development. He is currently developing a documentary about the use of outside aid in Afghanistan. SheridanWorks.com Roy Colle is Professor Emeritus of development communications at Cornell University. Recently honored with an award for lifetime achievement by the International Development Communication Association, he has exceptional knowledge of the evolving role of communications in international development. He is the author of the online book "Advocacy and Interventions: Readings in Communication and Development" published in 2007 by Internet-First University Press hosted by Cornell Univiersity. Roy Colle, Professor Emeritus Franco Sacchi Artist in residence at Boston University's Center for Digital Imaging Arts. His feature length documentary "This is Nollywood" about the Nigerian film industry has been an official selection in many film festivals and is now in distribution. Assisted by a grant from the Sundance Documentary Institute he co-directed "Waiting for Armageddon," a feature length documentary about the growing number of evangelical Christians in the US who believe the Apocalypse is imminent. Also an official selection in many film festivals, the film will soon be in selected theaters. IMDB.com Mary Jirmanus is a filmmaker, editor and community organizer. She has directed productions for the Harvard Kennedy School's Mexico Program and Ecuador's Coordinadora Nacional Campesina (CNC) and is co-director on a series of shorts for the Native American Project at the Boston Children'sMuseum. Mary is a founding member of the Ecuadorian media and human rights collective, Aldea Komunicativa, and from 2006-2008, co-produced Via Comunidad,a weekly rural-focused arts and education television program broadcast on UTV24 in Ibarra, Ecuador. She is a member of Dollars & Sense Magazine editorial collective, and was a 2006 Harvard University Human Rights Fellow. She holds an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard College. Douglas Karr and Sierra Bellows, independent producers of documentary, drama and comedy, shot for DevCom the original footage for the Starter Pack film and ArchBishop Tutu’s address at the Episcopal Divinity School. HumanScaleProductions.com and chopwood.comAndrew Rice Ex-Teaching Fellow, Harvard film program and DevCom editor. Clint Kenely Ex-Teaching Fellow, Harvard film program and DevCom editor. Michael Palmer Harvard film program alumnus, musician and DevCom editor and director. Mikey is now Assistant Editor on a forthcoming Martin Scorcese film. InvisibleDowntown.com and GreatUnknowns.com Allison Kiessling Harvard film program alumna and designer of DevCom website and many others. Visit: Waking Media Tony Hale Filmmaker and DevCom editor, Tony holds a BA in mathematics from Boston College and a Citation in Multimedia and Digital Content from Harvard University. tonyfilm.com Top People: DevCom Associates These are students, filmmakers, development activists, academics and others who have participated in workshops and have expressed their continuing interest in DevCom's activites. Read about their activies and reflections in Network. Top DevCom's Institutional SponsorDevCom Workshop is a not-for-profit, pro bono activity of Powersharing, Inc., a multi-media publishing company founded in 1982 by Charles and Susanne Mann to produce and distribute The Powersharing Series, video and audiotapes about personal computers. With over 100 talks by industry luminaries at the Boston Computer Society, the Computer Museum, and computer user groups, this series represents an incomparable oral history of the early days of personal computing. Powersharing Inc. is incorporated in Delaware and is registered with the Internal Revenue Service as an “S Corporation” small business under its regulation 1120. Any profits are donated to UNICEF.Top Contact InfoE-Mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Mailing Address: 9 Ransom Road, Falmouth MA 02540 Phone: (508) 548-0328 Top Donate, Volunteer & Sponsor a MentorGraduates and Teaching Fellows from the Harvard College Film Program have played a key role in shaping the DevCom program and its productions. We are raising funds to offer a small stipend to such talented and well-trained individuals who are willing to work with students to help them make effective visual documentation about international development issues. Donations are most conveniently made through PayPal’s secure system. Make a donation or become a volunteer.Top |
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