All entries tagged: activism
Knight News Challenge: Building a better toolkit for producing and sharing media on cell phones
Mobile was one of the big themes of this year’s Knight News Challenge; yesterday, we talked about the Kenyan mobile-crowdsourcing grantee Ushahidi. But it wasn’t the only cell-themed winner that promises to make spreading information in the developing world easier.
Katrin Verclas and her group MobileActive won a $200,000 grant to build new and better toolkits [...]
Morning Links: January 13, 2009
— Lots of buzz about Emily Nussbaum’s cover story in the new issue of New York, about the new projects built by the journalist/programmer team at The New York Times. Original-Gawker Elizabeth Spiers is not impressed:
…are expectations for traditional media institutions so abysmally low that they should be roundly patted on the back for understanding [...]
