July 27, 2006
Citizen Journalism and InTheFieldOnline.net
Justin Oberman for mopocket reports on a project underway by Erik Sundelof, a fellows at Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University.
As part of InTheFieldOnline.net, a project aiming to strengthen the citizen journalistic part of news media in troubled regions and empower people to tell their story, this new program tries to advance humanitarian goals in underserved communities.
"Erik has set up a Typepad blog that both sides can post to via their cell phones. And built an SMSBlog for MobileActive.org, the online community for mobile technology and social activism."
The point is to allow people 'in the field' to report news stories (or any other types of content for that matter) to the web using just a cell phone, but is developed in such a way as to be extremely extensible. As such one can basically push any piece of information - text, audio, graphic, picture, video from any cell phone to the web. It is the natural extension to citizen journalism as it creates the vehicle for people without internet to be able to get their voices heard on the internet.
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