A glimpse of Soweto via your cellphone

Mobile social network The Grid has launched Mobikasi, South Africa's first geo-tagged documentary for cellphones, which explores youth culture in Soweto. IOL reports.

Users can explore Sowetan youth culture on their cellphones from anywhere in South Africa through The Grid's map interface, or by physically touring the famous township and watching documentary clips on their phones at the locations where they were shot.

The location-based documentary looks at people, music, fashion, social issues and places of interest. Instead of showing the twenty-five minute documentary in a linear fashion from start to finish, Mobikasi splits the content up into twenty-five inserts of one minute each.

Each one-minute clip covers a different topic that is relevant to the youth in Soweto and is geo-tagged to the location where it was shot.

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