Peace and Reconciliation Turkmenistan Project #13724

Empowering Turkmen communities throughout Eurasia

by Foundation for Educational and Media Initiatives

Empowering Turkmen communities throughout Eurasia

Project Report | Sep 3, 2013
Empowering Turkmen communities throughout Eurasia

By Batyr Sapar | Project Leader

Since the launch of the pilot project "Empowering Turkmen Communities Throughout Eurasia" the total number of our Social Network population has reached 6,850. Our established networking with journalists, experts and academics is committed to supporting and promoting democratic processes, independent media and civil society in Eurasia.
We generated information and published news reports on current events, economics and politics, science and culture, health and sports issues and disseminated through our web site www.turkmenistan-diaspora.org and social networking. We designed pages on Facebook (Number of followers: 2044) https://www.facebook.com/td.media.network, Twitter (350) https://twitter.com/td_network and Odnoklassniki.ru (2140) http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/profile/558863058918, Moy Mir (1673) http://my.mail.ru/mail/td.media.network/, (643) http://vk.com/id213129974
We expanded our membership and became a member of Project Syndicate, a famous international publishing network that brings original, engaging, and thought-provoking commentaries by esteemed leaders and thinkers from around the world to readers everywhere. This membership allows us to use and translate the resource of this network into Turkmen.

Our Foundation offered internship opportunity for two students from Europe who develop their skills in journalism and contribute their knowledge to further development of our project.

We continue our intensive work on publicizing the project. We were interviewed for the Style magazine in Folsom, CA to be schedule for publication in September. In July we had two meetings with federal and local government officials in Folsom where we shared information about the project and discussed issues of cooperation with possible donors.

Communication with possible donors on fundraising is continuing.

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May 28, 2013
Foundation for Educational and Media Initiatives

By Batyr Sapar | Project Leader

The project "Empowering Turkmen Communities Throughout Eurasia" is now on a permanent spot at GlobalGiving, for which we are grateful for the donors who supported our project.

Although the project is currently on a passive mode as a pilot project, the total number of our Social Network population already reached 4,000, more than those of any other Turkmen media.

We have established networking with journalists, experts and academics committed to supporting and promoting democratic processes, independent media and civil society in Eurasia. This partnership will reinforce our ability to fulfill our mission.

We exchange information and provide mutual support to each other, generate information quickly and accurately, and use such information to inform and educate people of Turkmenistan and Turkmen communities about universal values and free market experiences.

We trained our U.S-based journalists to produce high-quality audio-visual materials that we will disseminate upon the project launch.

We are excited to discover the membership that would be best for us. We became a member of International Diaspora Engagement Alliance (www.diasporaalliance.org) and New America Media, the organizations we intend to cooperate with.

The team of EU-based media web developers pledged to help us further enhance our website by employing latest technology and trends in online media industry.

Some political science and economics students studying in Europe have shown interest in doing an internship with our Foundation. Our members in California have also been asked to give volunteer lectures at the colleges on Central Asian affairs.

Moscow-based Asgabat.net ranked our website (Turkmenistan-diaspora.org) as the best media start-up in Turkmen cyberspace in 2013.

We are intensively working on publicizing the project and searching for potential partners.

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