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The winners of WSYA '11 - Pursue Truth!

The final category is "Pursue Truth!" 
The Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) are likewise basic human rights - the right of each person on earth to survival, health, education, shelter, and security.

Pursue Truth!

The Viewspaper
Simply put, The Viewspaper is the voice of youth. It is a youth media company based on citizen journalism running a network of 10 youth papers in addition to the main national paper. Available on the internet and in mobile space, The Viewspaper carries the views and opinions of young people from across the world on topics ranging from arts, politics, business and society, to science and sports.

 The Viewspaper aims to bring about social change by consolidating the opinions of youth on current events and relevant topics, based on the assumption that when lots of young people express their views on the same subject at the same time, a conversation starts out of which a consensus with the potential to be a catalyst for change, can emerge. More than 6000 young people under 35 have contributed to The Viewspaper to date and are rooted in a strong community of 1,49,000 Facebook fans and thousands of readers. Views TV, a UK edition, courses in writing and an online school of journalism are just some of the next steps in expansion.

Website: http://theviewspaper.net/
Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/viewspaper

Zabatak the anti-crime, anti-corruption initiative
Zabatak is a non-profit initiative led by group of young people that aim to fight corruption and to make Egypt safe and free from bribery and corruption. Politically unaffiliated and having no specific political orientation, Zabatak was established to gather information about criminal, corrupt or semi-legal activities that could be useful to the ordinary citizen. It has already become a reliable center of news.Zabatak also carries potential for further development.

Website:http://zabatak.com/
Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/Zabatak

Write3
Write3 is a mobile journalism tool and a platform enabling users to send texts, images, audio or video files via internet directly from a mobile phone to Write3’s mobile journalism portal. True to the basic philosophy of mobile grassroots journalism, Write3 helps mobile phone users to uncover the truth as journalists and as conscious citizens. The process of participation is simple, quick and user friendly, as to be expected with a mass user-based technology. After downloading the software to the mobile phone from the internet, users can take photographs, shoot video or capture audio directly on the mobile phone, adding a title and description before uploading it. The uploaded multimedia news is submitted to the online news journal of Write3.com and can be viewed and commented on instantly from both mobiles and internet. Much needed in countries like Bangladesh which are hungry for independent and politically uncontrived news at the grassroots level, Write3 provides a social media platform where citizens can be heard. Developed primarily in English and the Bangla local language, Write3 will expand to other languages by end of 2011.

Website:http://www.write3.com/