technology + the democratization of news
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Ushahidi's Brandon Rosage discusses how news organizations can leverage the digital efficiencies and access to information that have fueled the rise of citizen journalism.TRANSCRIPT
TECHNOLOGY THE DEMOCRATIZATION
OF NEWS
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Ory OkollohErik HersmanJuliana Rotich David Kobia
“Citizens that were once only passive recipients of information are now contributors to the story.”
- Dale Zak, Ushahidi developer
January 2010: 3,584 reports and 500,000 views
“The 2010 Haiti earthquake response will be remembered as the moment when the level of access to mobile and online communication enabled a kind of collective intelligence to emerge.”
- Disaster Relief 2.0, the United Nations
CapturingStoring
CalculatingMedia monitoring
SourcingGeo-localizingCategorization
AnalysisReport authoring
Verification
Media monitoringSourcing
Geo-localizingCategorization
AnalysisReport authoring
Verification
Media monitoringSourcing
Geo-localizingCategorization
AnalysisReport authoring
Verification
Media monitoringSourcing
Geo-localizing
CategorizationAnalysis
Report authoring Verification
Media monitoringSourcing
Geo-localizing
CategorizationAnalysis
Report authoring Verification
It’s hard to make sense ofa lot of real-time information in short periods of time.
Diversity of devicesdisrupts the distributionof digital media.
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It’s hard to make sense ofa lot of real-time information in short periods of time.
Diversity of devicesdisrupts the distributionof digital media.
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Make sense ofa lot of real-time information in short periods of time.
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TECHNOLOGY THE DEMOCRATIZATION
OF NEWS
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