MADMUNDO.TV : Me, You, Us, All. Taking Part

madmundo.tv tells the story of our world and our lives. On proposed themes, our reporters put themselves at the service of a citizen somewhere on the planet.

With "Me, You, Us, All" as its motto, madmundo is a place where everybody can speak out on a equal basis.

madmundo is a storytelling approach that is in tune with the coming era, and that crystallizes the creation of new possibilities.

Patrice
Barrat

Patrice Barrat is a founder and executive director of Bridge Initiative International.

The goals of Bridge Initiative are to facilitate the emergence and the development of: reflections, agreemen...

madmundo tells the story of our world and our lives. On proposed themes, our reporters put themselves at the service of a citizen somewhere on the planet.

They investigate the issues in order to help citizens understand what is happening to them, allowing them to question the powers that be.

Episode after episode, directly on the web site or through your mobile, you can all participate and react, as the stories unfold in different episodes.

Each investigation then becomes a film for television or other uses.

With "Me, You, Us, All" as its motto, madmundo is a place where everybody can speak out on a equal basis.

Taking part in madmundo means engaging in an exchange and a dialogue on many levels, between internet users and reporters, or even with the people and personalities our investigations lead us to.

There are several ways you can participate. You can write, or you can chose to use your voice only, you can contribute through a video testimony, and you can even send a film via your webcam or mobile phone.

For each madmundo episode, we expect you to be there to comment and to push the madmundo team to do more.

And eventually, as Omar Koussih did around the theme of disability, you could also suggest a new story idea.

madmundo is a storytelling approach that is in tune with the coming era, and that crystallizes the creation of new possibilities.

It is a presence for concerned citizens who are eager for solidarity and hope. madmundo is both a witness and a stakeholder in the changes yet to come. madmundo enters the heart of globalisation, often from backstage.

By focussing on initiatives brought forth by civil society and/or other actors, madmundo amplifies them in order to embody a "social network" of human value.

This audiovisual approach reflects the evolution that is wished of our societies, local and global, and of the role of the media, in the eyes of all those who do not want to feel powerless when faced with their own future.

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At the beginning was Geraldo. And since the beginning, Geraldo rhymes with mad mundo.

by Patrice Barrat

It is with this "citizen-character" that we first tried , in 1999, a new storytelling approach called mad mundo. Not everybody liked that name : mad mundo. "Not positive enough" was a comment I was getting quite often. As a joke, my answer was : "well, if we succeed with the project, we might change the name into: good mundo".

But back then - and till now - I really felt - and I was not alone - the world was going crazy and that a starting point for any new media should be to acknowledge it. While doing so, mad mundo would in its own manner generate hope by siding with people, listening to them, working for them, rather than staying on the side of the Powers that Be or of the "Movers and Shakers", like most of the big media.