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Featured Case Study
Transparency International Georgia is working to make information about Parliament available to more people via SMS messaging. The civil society organization was recently awarded a grant from the Open Society Institute and is several months into a project that sends Twitter-like messages on Parliamentary scheduling information. Derek Dohler, Digital Analyst for TI Georgia, said that information on upcoming meeting agendas and drafts is not readily available to many in Georgia.
The text messages speed up the process of getting information out, Dohler said. Right now, information about what is happening in Parliament is available weekly or semi-weekly, but there is no way for people to get an up-to-the-minute idea of what is really going on, Dohler said. MobileActive.org spoke with Dohler to hear how the project is going.
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05.21.11 | MelissaUlbricht
Featured How-to
Location information can add value to your stories and content and can help journalists who report on specific communities, reporters who create venue-specific multimedia, or citizen journalists who cover events in which location is relevant.
Location information has many advantages: It provides more context. It helps journalists and publishers find an interested audience; users searching for information around specific locations will most easily find information that is tagged with a location. Location information lends itself to aggregation; content with location information can be put on maps and other visualizations, which makes it more appealing for audiences to examine. Through this, it can be used in pattern-finding. Aggregations may show interesting patterns that would not be evident from individual reports. Finally, location information can leverage social media.
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02.27.11 | MelissaUlbricht |
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