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What Independent Media Looks Like
It looks like a kitchen table with a laptop and a pot of coffee.It looks like a teenager filming a two-minute video that hits harder than any cable news broadcast.It looks like an elder speaking truth into a crackling microphone, heard in ten thousand ears across the country. Independent media is not a product. It’s a lifeline.It’s what happens when people stop waiting to be told what matters…
At a hardware shop
"You remember [name redacted] from high school? So few years back he grabs his sister and his mother, has em out in the street right here with his gun to the kids head yelling he's gonna shoot em both then shoot emself. Well sniper fire got em first. Anyway my mom comes home that day and she says kids I got a movie for you tonight and she'd filmed the whole damn thing, raw and uncut. Fuckin A."
Oh yeah
I picked up a late start class that is all about social change through new media and using photography. I have set up a WordPress account and will have at least three post up there. Still throwing around topic ideas in my head but I'm leaning toward the death penalty because I already have so many stats and quotes ready to go. It was prob ridiculous to take on an online class right before a move and finals but I think this class will be beneficial even outside of transferable credits.
Syria Coverage on YouTube
There’s been much talk about how mass media has been covering up, or at the very least…
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Meet the judges for Changify Shoreditch
With Changify Shoreditch coming up this Friday 14th - Sunday 16th December in Rockwell House Studio (Fri) and Method's London offices in the Tea Building on Shoreditch High St (Sat and Sun); we're delighted to announce our panel of judges who will give their expert feedback on the projects and pitch videos created by attendees over the weekend. Indy Johar - Co-founder 00:/
Indy is a qualified architect and regeneration consultant with particular experience in socially driven sustainability. He has delivered significant large scale multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder projects from Future Planners [with DEMOS, RICS, English Partnerships, CPRE] to Sustainable Suburbia joint funded by RICS, CABE, BURA and NESTA. He has worked on a series of research projects focusing on sustainable futures; from affordable neighbourhoods, future planners, sustainable suburbia to High Utilization workspaces. Indy previously worked at Penoyre & Prasad Architects, leading, wining and delivering several Local Investment Finance Trust health workspace projects within Public Private Partnership frameworks. A Demos Associate, he has taught at TU Berlin, University of Bath, Architectural Association and University College London. Recently, Indy lectured at Art and Ecology Conference [London], Commission for Architecture and Built Environment, LSE and the Royal Academy. Indy on Twitter @indy_johar Jim Boulton - Deputy Managing Director, London, Story Worldwide
Jim is Story's Deputy MD in the UK and a Course Director for The Chartered Institute of Marketing, where he runs the Digital Marketing Masterclass. He also curates “Digital Archaeology”, an event that celebrates the golden age of the website and raises the profile of digital archiving. The show has featured as a key part of Internet Week Europe and New York, attracting over 12,000 visitors, gaining international media coverage and support from The British Library, The Library of Congress and Google. In 1996, Jim embarked on a Masters Degree at the Hypermedia Research Centre. Led by the eminent social theorist Doctor Richard Barbrook and the cutting edge interactive design agency Antirom, the course was dubbed the British answer to Negroponte’s Media Lab by The Guardian. In 1998, Jim established Large, an Internet consultancy that delivered benchmark websites for the world’s top brands including the groundbreaking Bang & Olufsen site, referred to as “the most beautiful website in the world” by the Financial Times, and Agent Provocateur, deemed the “sexiest website in the world” by Vogue. In 2007, Large merged with Story Worldwide to create the world’s first post-advertising agency. Jim on Twitter @jim_boulton Chris Downs - Principal, Method
Chris Downs is a Principal out of Method's London studio, bringing his decade of experience in service design to Method clients. Having founded live|work, the world's first service design agency in 2001, Chris is one of the true pioneers of this discipline. Chris is internationally recognized for his perspective on building brands and products that live through every touchpoint of the user experience, and that the 'servicization' of many products leads to a more financially, socially and environmentally sustainable future. He has brought this thinking to the design of iconic and disruptive services for clients including Streetcar (now Zipcar), Orange, Vodafone, Fiat, Aviva and Experian. Chris on Twitter @dataisthenewoil About Changify Shoreditch: Over the weekend of 14-16 December, we are going to Changify Shoreditch, with Friday early drinks and video inspirations followed by two days of citizen reporting, rating, data collection and creative problem solving. For one weekend, you turn citizen journalist: exploring past, present and future Shoreditch, collecting and sharing issues and inspirations you notice, and mapping them to build a local realtime index and craft solutions. These solutions turn into mini-projects supported by 1-minute pitch videos, to get backing on the upcoming Changify platform from the local community, businesses and brands. Changify is a Kickstarter for civic change linked to a realtime locality and brand index, brought to you by @D4SC Design for Social Change, a social impact enterprise. BOOKINGS & MORE INFO: Some Early Bird Tickets at £16.55 are still available; (thereafter tickets are £23.97). Cost includes Friday drinks; guided walk Saturday; and lunch, tea/coffee and refreshments Sat & Sun. Follow @Changify on Twitter for updates. BOOK HERE: http://changifyshoreditch.eventbrite.co.uk/
gReporter - Map Your Story
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Develop an Android Mobile Application for journalists and citizen reporters to create and share news around them
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Similar application is SMS based, where Citizen Reporters submit short Messages with the news and location. GReporter will include taking photos, videos, text and audio reports submitting to Web Server
3. Describe the real world challenge that you are trying to solve for African media [50 words]
To enable Mobile Phone users (which is inexpensive) and Journalists to submit captured to any configured server, Provide Real Time News Reporting, display web page of submitted reports with location coordinates where news occurred, Eliminate travelling long distances to report news, Journalist not aware of all news in all surroundings
4. How and why will your solution work? [100 words]
GReporter is a mobile application built on Android platform that allows Citizen Reporters and Journalists to upload news content with GPS information attached, and submit it to web Server using HTTP. This content can be accessible anywhere so long as one can access the web Server where content is submitted.
Key Features: - Taking photos, videos, text reports and Audio Reports and uploading them with GPS coordinates to a server - Display page of submitted reports or other information with GPS coordinates where the news happened
Anybody who has access to the web page can view submitted news real time
5. Who is working on it? [100 words]
We are a team of 3 young talented Kenyans.
Ray Ochieng – Developer Lead
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology graduate and currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Mobile Technologies. He has over 2 years in Mobile development and has worked for Inmobia Company and Safaricom Limited (A leading telecommunication company in Kenya)
Vincent Maraba – Business Lead
Bachelor of Commerce graduate and currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Mobile Technologies at Strathmore University. He is responsible for marketing, defining revenue models, budgeting, carrying out Market Research, accounting and pitching
Collins Odiwour – Graphic Designer
Responsible for graphic design and testing the application
6. What part of the project have you already built? [100 words]
Application is 40% done we have completed photo and text Reporting. We have installed it in 10 Mobile devices and currently being tested by 8 Citizen Reporters and 2 Journalists, Upon installing the application on their mobile device they can capture photo or text Reports submits them to a media house or a web server where anyone who has access to the server can view the reports, report location and time when report was submitted
We are working on video and audio reporting Modules
7. How would you sustain the project after the funding expires? [50 words]
Our Revenue Model
Selling the App to Media Houses and Journalists
We target 500 Journalists by First Year
Revenue Share with Citizen Reporters
80-20 (Citizen Reporter- GReporter)
Advertising
On the web server where news will be aggregated, we will include advertisements to generate more revenue
Requested amount from ANIC: $14,000 Expected amount of time required to complete project: 8 Months Total Project Cost:$16,500
Name: Ray Ochieng Twitter: @rayochieng Organization: Student Country: Kenya