Posted on 01/06/2018 3:15:23 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
The State Department is spending $50,000 for conferences aimed at getting more female bloggers in India.
The project, "SHE Vlogs: Video Blogging Training for Women Entrepreneurs in North India," will develop a "vlogging training curriculum" and locate speakers for the workshops in three cities in northern India.
"The U.S. Embassy [in New Delhi] continues to support women's entrepreneurship in India following the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit co-hosted by the United States and India under the theme ‘Women First, Prosperity for All,'" according to a grant announcement posted just before Christmas. "The SHE VLOGS program seeks to arm North Indian women entrepreneurs with digital skills to enhance business marketing and branding strategy through a series of three video-blogging (vlogging) workshops for entrepreneurs."
The funding will go to a nonprofit group to "conduct two-day vlogging workshops in New Delhi, Chandigarh and Varanasi that will teach women entrepreneurs how to produce 60-second videos using commercially available technology."
"Through this program the U.S. Embassy seeks to cultivate and empower a network of North Indian women entrepreneurs to strengthen the U.S.-India economic relationship," the State Department said.
Each workshop will teach 25 Indian women how to make minute-long video pitches to promote their businesses online.
"The participants should be existing women entrepreneurs whose business ideas are at a stage of development where they are ready to be pitched to investors," according to the grant announcement.
The State Department is accepting applications for the project through mid-February. The workshops will be held later this year.
This sort of thing is the purview of the UN - at least in theory.
We contribute huge sums of money to the UN for that purpose and then turn around and spend more money to fund the actiivity directly.
Meanwhile the UN spends our money to promote globalism, anti-American sentiment and anti-semitism.
And why is this issue the problem of the American taxpayer to begin with?
The best thing that could be done with the State Department is to shut 95% of it down and pass responsibility for visas and passports to Homeland Security.
“Why not do something really useful and send $50k to Free Republic to help promote conservative values in America? “
I suspect this is all about who you know (and who you blow.) Politicians have an astonishing amount of “small power.” That’s the power to make a phone call and influence how, say, $50,000 gets spent. Congressman X sits on committee Y and his vote and good will is important to lots and lots of agencies and individuals. So somebody at a party, and no congressman passes up a party, asks him for a favor to (fill-in-blank.) Not only does it make the congressman feal like he’s a wonderful guy, but it gives the congressman a chance to use his power. He makes a call. A solicitation is written in such a way there can only be one winning bidder and the grant is given.
A solicitation may read, “Winning responder will be female, living in Kolkata, and qualified to teach women to blog.”
When I was running a small company I applied for lots of government grants and then followed up to see who had won. It is a very small circle of winners and few of the winners are outside the beltway or certain campuses.
Stop wasting our tax money!
Hey, it's good enough for Star Wars The Last Jedi. Only women can be in charge.
What the hell are we doing, stop this insanity! American tax payers money for American tax payers period!!!!!
Team Trump needs to find all of these frivolous programs and end them. No exceptions.
What are they doing, that’s my money!!
What are they doing?
MORE H1B’S MORE H1B’S MORE H1B’S!!!!
Who wantsta pay any ‘Murricans anyway???
Yet more government wasting taxpayers’ money to “do good”. Nitwittery.
Another nonsense program by the State Department. It’s not a lot of money but that alone doesn’t mean it is not waste, which it is.
If there ought to be such a program, it would be for the people and governments in India to fund and operate, not the U.S.
Add this small programs to thousands of other small programs run out of the state department and we are likely talking hundreds of millions of dollars if not more than a billion.
Trump needs to hear about this.
Welcome Indian bloggers! It won’t be too long before someone posts their blog here.
Think of all the wanna-be bloggers right here at home!
Make American Blogging Great Again!
Why on earth should the U.S. pay for this nonsense? We have many more urgent needs for OUR taxpayers’ money. Whose idiot idea was this? Some Indian in our government with a sister who has a blogsite?
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