Digital Call - Prince Claus Fund

El Bus Digital
Who: Fundación Visión Cultural
What: A digital bus bringing digital technologies to the rural areas in Bolivia
Where: Bolivia
When: From 01-11-2012 to 31-10-2013
Amount attributed: 22,497 Euro
El Bus Digital is a project launched by Fundación Visión Cultural, a Bolivian institution whose mission is
to help strengthening the cultural life in Bolivia and to support the intercultural exchange in the region.
The project aims at promoting digital technologies as a tool to express cultural identity of semi-urban
and rural young Bolivians. For this purpose a bus will be equipped and driven throughout these rural
zones.
The bus will serve as a platform for a training process to motivate local participants to actively use
digital tools. This challenge will involve professional artists as well as community leaders, which have a
key role in the process, increasing participant’s self-esteem, strengthening identities and motivating their
creativity. The Fundación Visión Cultural as coordinator of the process will set up the cooperation with
the municipalities that take part of the three planned geographical routes. Institutional participation of
the La Paz, Cochabamba, Oruro and Beni governorates will be requested, as well as the participation of
an internet provider that will be working in the field. Union Latina de Bolivia will be one of the strategic
allies as one of the institutions that has worked with high effort in the cultural field of Bolivia.
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