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Super Tuesday: Getting Out the Youth Vote with Citizen Journalism

February 4, 2008 | CorinneRamey
file under:
citizen journalism, election, get-out-the vote, mtv

This February 5th isn't just any Tuesday in the United States. It's Super Tuesday, so named because 23 of the 50 states are holding presidential primaries, making it the contest that could potentially determine the all-important presidential Democratic and Republican nominees.

Television station MTV (Music Video Television) has an innovative new effort to get out the youth vote and merge citizen journalism with mainstream media. The effort, dubbed "Street Team '08," is made possible through mobile phones.

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Groundviews Mobile - Citizen Journalism from Sri Lanka on the Go

January 25, 2008 | yajitha
file under:
citizen journalism, Groundviews, mobile democracy, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Sri Lanka

Groundviews is now featuring its latest content on mobile devices. Go to http://groundviews.mofuse.mobi/ to access articles from the award-winning Sri Lanka citizen journalism site  on a mobile phone. Groundviews mobile works with Blackberry’s, the iPhone and all recent Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG, Samsung and other mobile phones capable of and set up for Internet access. Our site does not require 3G or high speed connectivity and is not tied to any mobile operator or service.

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SMS as Information Channel in Post-Election Kenya

January 21, 2008 | CorinneRamey
file under:
africa, citizen journalism, citizen reporting, kenya, m-payments, m-reporting, mobile, sms election

Post-election violence has exploded in Kenya in the wake of the December 27 presidential elections. Ethnic killings -- which today's New York Times suggests may have been carefully planned -- have increased, and estimates of the death toll range from 650 to over 1000. In the midst of this, people both in and outside the country are using mobile phones in innovative ways to communicate political knowledge and circumvent the media blackout.

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At Election Time It's Mobile Phone Journalism in Kenya

December 22, 2007 | CorinneRamey
file under:
citizen journalism, kenya, mobile media

When most mainstream media report on Kenya's upcoming elections, they focus on the perspectives of people in cities or urban areas. However, since this October citizen journalists using cell phones have reported on news and political perspectives from rural Kenyan communities. A new collaboration between Media Focus on Africa and the Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) gives mobile phones to "Community Information Volunteers" to use as a reporting tool.

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Witness

file under:
citizen journalism, hub, human rights, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Media and Journalism
operates in:
United States

contact:

The Hub, a project of human rights advocacy group WITNESS, is a website that hopes to create a new space for human rights related video content, including footage shot on mobile phones.

According to the Hub website,

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References / Past Projects

Read more about the Hub on the MobileActive blog.



Citizen Journalism Update: Mobile Journalism in Sri Lanka

October 29, 2007 | CorinneRamey
file under:
citizen journalism, nokia, Sri Lanka

Sanjana Hattotuwa, on the ICT4Peace blog, mentions our recent article on the Reuters/Nokia collaboration in the context of his work in Sri Lanka. Hattotuwa writes:

Reading Reuters/Nokia Collaboration Has Potential for Citizen Journalists on MobileActive echoed what I’m currently facilitating in Sri Lanka with the help of the CPA Media Unit.

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Centre for Policy Alternatives

file under:
citizen journalism, Computers and Technology, CPA, Groundviews, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, ICT4Peace, Media and Journalism, Peace, War, and Conflict Resolution, Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Sri Lanka, Vikalpa, VOR Radio, Voting, Democracy, and Civic Engagement
operates in:
Sri Lanka

contact:

Sanjana Hattotuwa

http://ict4peace.wordpress.com

We are using a Nokia N93i phone to capture content that is feeding into Sri Lanka’s first citizen journalism YouTube channel, the Vikalpa YouTube Video Channel. The channel will be formally launched in the near future with more content added online.

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References / Past Projects

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution- and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka and that non-partisan civil society groups have an important and constructive contribution to make to this process.

The primary role envisaged for the Centre in the field of public policy is a pro-active and interventionary one, aimed at the dissemination and advocacy of policy alternatives for non-violent conflict resolution and democratic governance. Accordingly, the work of the Centre involves a major research component through which the policy alternatives advocated are identified and developed. 



Reuters/Nokia Collaboration Has Potential for Citizen Journalists

October 26, 2007 | CorinneRamey
file under:
citizen journalism, nokia, reuters

Reuters and Nokia Research Center have teamed up to advance the usage of mobile journalism with the release of a new mobile toolkit and reporting try-out. Although the initiative is currently aimed at professional reporters, the project has implications for citizen journalists around the world.

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AfricaNews

file under:
africa, citizen journalism, Voting, Democracy, and Civic Engagement
operates in:
Netherlands

contact:
www.africanews.com

The Voices of Africa project has "mobile reporters" use mobiles to tell stories from their respective countries. From the website:

Thanks to tremendous progress achieved by the General Packet Radio System (GPRS), the wireless communication protocol, it is now possible for Africans to send articles and images (still and moving) about events taking place in their countries without using a computer and without having traditional internet connection. Under those circumstances, the bigger the number of people expressing their opinions through that technology, the stronger becomes democracy, and the more valuable is the contribution to good governance efforts in Africa.

References / Past Projects

Africa Interactive is an online media company running and an international, interactive and multimedia platform, with a particular focus on Africa. The website www.africanews.com is one of our activities. Our Dutch website is www.afrikanieuws.nl

AfricaNews is the most compelling interactive Africa community, sharing news, photos, weblogs, videos, mobile reports and the untold stories by African people. With a focus on Business, Microfinance, Society, Culture, Travel, Nature, Music and Sport.

The aim of Africa Interactive is to inform each and every person having some interest in Africa about the multiple facets of that continent. We offer a podium to everyone willing to post his/her own stories on our website. Webloggers, writers, (citizen) journalists, photographers, filmmakers: every body is welcome.



Citizen journalism in the news

August 17, 2006 | kiwanja
file under:
citizen journalism, mobile, mobile active, mobileactive, news, photo, reporting, sms, video

Citizen journalism has been hitting the news lately, accelerated by the use of mobiles and blogging during the latest events in the Middle East. Something which has been around for some time is starting to become more and more mainstream by the day. Sadly, most seems to be centred around world trouble spots, but therein lies it's strength.

In the UK, the London bombings of July 7th last summer saw the sudden emergence of citizen reporters, most using their mobiles to make short videos of the immediate aftermath. No news teams in the world, however well equipped and connected, could ever have got this footage. The BBC were inundated. According to one of the News Editors that morning:

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