From Rising Voices Director David Sasaki’s post on Idea Lab, the group blog for all Knight News Challenge (the $5 million yearly contest about innovative news delivery ideas) winners:

In January we received over 270 proposals from activists, bloggers, and NGO’s all wanting to use citizen media tools to bring new communities – long ignored by both traditional and new media – to the conversational web. It was, by far, the highest number of proposals Rising Voices has ever received in its two-year history of supporting citizen media training projects. The growing interest in citizen media from civil society shows that we truly are undergoing a major transformation in how we inform ourselves about the rest of the world and who is able to contribute that information.

Of the 270 project proposals, the following five are most representative of the innovation, purpose and goodwill that Rising Voices aims to support…

Congratulations to the new Rising Voices projects; find out more about these five projects on the original post.