Now, it's a duo.
The journalist Fabiano Angélico has joined our ranks to be the assistant trainer for the Digital Tools for Public Service Journalism course, sponsored by AT&T, and offered by the ICFJ with the support of our partner Abraji, here in Brazil, in the months of April (online part) and May (in-presence activities).
Fabiano brings the best of both worlds. Apart from the work that he does on a daily basis in the NGO Transparência Brasil, that deals with tackling corruption and tracing public investment, he is also an active twitter and blogger with a good knowledge of digital media.
On top of being tech savvy, Fabiano is also currently completing a master's degree in Public Administration in one of the country's most renowned institutions, Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
In 2009, he underwent a specialization in transparency and fighting corruption at the University of Chile. He is now working on a project with Global Voices called Tech Transparency, that aims to analyze the use of technology to foster transparency and citizen participation.
The participants of our course will be introduced to such tools and techniques as refined online search, map mash-ups to track things ranging from tackling violence to tracing public investment. They will also be given insights into preparing photos and videos for upload to websites and blogs, and how to create a blog and a wiki.
Overall, a group of 35 journalists should take part in the online segment. They'll be selected on the basis of having developed works of a similar nature to that required in the course. The 12 best participants will be selected to take part in the in-presence training in Folha de São Paulo's training room. Amongst these 12, up to 5 from cities outside of São Paulo are eligible to take part, with accommodation and travel arrangements provided by the ICFJ.
In the past, AT&T sponsored a similar course for Hispanic journalists at the Centro de Periodismo Digital, in Mexico's University of Guadalajara. This previous course was run by Knight Fellow James Brainer, who has provided valuable advice to the activities me and Fabiano will be running here in São Paulo.
In the next days, I'll tell you more on some of the things James told us, because he provided some very valuable advices, that deserve a blog of their own. Stay tuned!