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Machizo's founder - Shahjahan Siraj joined in 4th Annual  International ACSA Conference to share the livebits experiences of 80plus1. The theme of the conference was - The Visual Imagination Across Boundaries that held on 1-3 November in Assumption University of Bangkok, Thailand.  Thirty one  presentations on visual art, multimedia and culture presented by the experts from different countries.

Machizo Multimedia joined as contributor producer at 'One Day in Earth' world documentary. We featured Bangladeshi eco-friendly vehicle ” rickshaw and rickshaw culture. On October 10, 2010 (10/10/10), thousands of inspired individuals, had represented every nation of the world, filmed their perspective and contributed their voice to a collaborative global film project. Many filmed topics of beauty and culture were exposed. The world community for 'One Day in Earth' [...]

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war, and the creation of the United Nations, the international community vowed never again to allow atrocities like those of that conflict happen again. World leaders decided to complement the UN Charter with a road [...]

There's a dirty little secret out there amongst hosting companies, and that is what they call "Unlimited" hosting, usually something like "Unlimited Diskspace/Storage" and "Unlimited Transfer/Bandwidth." Obviously, if this were completely true, companies like Ebay, Amazon, Wikipedia, and Craigslist would simply sign up for them too. The reality is, you will have to upgrade if you have a moderately busy site, but it's too complicated to explain to the [...]

Communication at the heart of change' the animation video presentation of Panosexplains the essential role that information and communication plays in development. Sustainable development demands that people participate in the debates and decisions that affect their lives. They need to be able to receive information, but also to make their voices heard. Nevertheless, the poor are often excluded from these processes by geography and lack of resources or skills. The [...]

Above video on the Bangladesh livebits experiences from 80 market places of Dhaka. Along with livebits, the project focuses to freshbits and connectbits as well. The livebits was web cast directly from market spot to Linz Australia via wireless internet, however broadcast via video blogging. The global project '80+1 : Journey Around the World' was formulated with the spirit of Jules Verne’s famous classic, “80 Days Around the World [...]

Two days long training workshop for child  journalists of Shishu Prokash was held at MMC premises on July  25-26, 2008. This training was jointly organized by UNICEF and Mass-line Media Centre (MMC). Shahahjahan Siraj, the director of Machizo facilitated the training. News editor  Moniruzzaman Khan; Sub-editor, Masum Bellia, Dhaka Team Leader M.  Tohidul Islam of Shishu Prokash coordinated the training. Twelve child  journalists participated in the training and learn [...]

Machizo’s director ‘Shahjahan Siraj’ joined  in the Transmission event to share his views and experiences. The documentary ‘Riding on a Rickshaw’ and ‘Flood 07’  from Bangladesh screened in the event of Transmission Asia-Pacific at Java/ Indonesia (Sukabumi, Indonesia, May 19-25 2008.).  Transmission Asia-Pacific is a meeting of video activists and free  software developers who are using online video distribution for social justice  and media democracy. The event was organized [...]