Filming in rural Samoa. children who never speak English, who rarely see a Palagi, let alone a video camera!

Applications are now open for a two month contract as videographer & post-production with the SWAP Foundation. This is a voluntary position based in SWAP HQ, Samoa, open immediately.

The SWAP Foundation assists volunteers to visit Samoa and help with Internet Marketing, raising the profile of Samoa online.

THE JOB

The role with SWAP in Samoa involves filming everyday life in Samoa (e.g. the markets in the city Apia, rural villages, special events) and then compiling video for use on YouTube and TV working in partnership with TV3 (a privately owned Samoan station ).

The two objectives are:

1. To capture the people and stories of Samoa in Samoan and English for posterity
2. To give exposure and insight into Samoa as a tourist destination on the Internet

You will be involved in all aspects of the production including creating storylines, developing the SAMOA STORY™ brand digitally, liaising with interviewees to determine the best angle for the story, taking and processing video, working with our Media partner (TV3 Samoa), and completing all post-production work. This is a very hands-on role, with a high degree of autonomy, working with a flexible hands-off management team, who will resource, guide and assist without micro-managing your work. [Read more...]

I’ve just linked to Debbie on Linkedin, and followed her suggestion to check out your site. It’s so inspiring… the scale of what you can all accomplish in helping Samoan people with Internet presence.

Bravo!

J.P.

Thanks for your support and encouragement!

Headstand Guru, Carsten Dausel performs for his camera at Faleolo Airport

(And now for something completely different!)

International Headstand Guru, Carsten Dausel from Germany set heads turning at Faleolo Airport last night when he took photos of himself posing in his favourite position – you guessed it – upside down! [Read more...]

MCIT (The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology) has invited the SWAP team to attend the e-Government conference being held at the Tanoa Tusitala Hotel this week. The event is put on by Commonwealth Center for e-Government and sponsored by SPC (http://www.spc.int) in Fiji. There’s nothing online yet about it but we’ll update this post as things come to hand.

International Facebook connections map. Beautiful colours and a serious message that the world is now "Connected", with a capital "C"!

Debbie and I (Dennis) were invited to give the Minister of Communications and his team a presentation this week.

In it we explained what SWAP is all about . . . essentially Voluntourism based around Internet Marketing.

You are sure to enjoy it!

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After a few months of treading water, SWAP is coming back online, February 2011 and world records are about to tumble! [Read more...]

The SWAP Foundation regrets to announce that all our operations in Samoa are suspended until further notice, effective immediately. [Read more...]

A very big GI-NORMOUS welcome to our latest and greatest SWAPsters . . . Tony & Tara. [Read more...]

The SWAP Foundation is pleased to offer a two month voluntary position for a political observer, February/March 2010, leading up to and including the 2011 Elections. [Read more...]

So long Samoa!

Our six weeks and two days of fun in the sun have passed all to quickly and are coming to a close, what can we say – we’ll miss you Samoa! [Read more...]