People power

Imagine 50,000 reporters armed with video cameras on their mobile phones able to report live via the web. That fantasy is about to become a reality this month for South Korea's OhMyNews online site. The Age reports.

"... A wireless broadband internet known as wibro launched in South Korea this month. It means that OhmyNews citizen reporters can broadcast live to the web from a moving vehicle. Jean Min, director of OhmyNews International, says any of the 50,000 citizen reporters could shoot video with their mobile phones and send it to a server. "From our server we can broadcast live to anywhere in the country."

More on the sucess of OhMyNews ... The number of the site's citizen reporters surged past the 50,000 mark this year. When the site launched it had 727. ... Late last year, Time selected Kim Hye Won, a Korean housewife and OhmyNews citizen reporter, as one of the 15 citizens who exemplified its "Person of the Year".

emily | 9:21 PM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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