Reminder: Immersive storytelling session today

[Richard Zulu]

Dear Story lab applicant,

This serves to remind you of our hacks/hackers session on immersive storytelling due today, 5.30pm - 7.30pm at Outbox Hub, 6th floor. Please register here by clicking on the Google form registration link.

The meet-up is open to journalists, techies (software developers and enthusiasts) and bloggers.

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​Our speakers for the evening will include Alvin Kabwama _ a drone journalist that has worked with a couple of media houses, among which is Buganda Broadcasting service. He has an electronics engineering background trained at Makerere University and Singularity University.

We shall also hear from Michael Katagaya of Evidence and Methods Lab, that works in the area of improving access to information and accountability, leveraging data visualisation and journalism skillsets. Please see the bios in the programme here.

Immersive storytelling has been used to document the lives of syrian refugees, by the guardian to demonstrate what it is like to live in solitary confinement. This workshop will help you:

• Understand the technologies available to you for immersive storytelling;

• Learn best practices in immersive storytelling;

• Considerations when constructing a news story i.e audience participation

• Key challenges in immersive storytelling and how to mitigate these i.e ethics and standards, newsroom workflows, technology deployment, skills and user adoption.

You can view details about the presenters here.

The StoryLab academy is an intensive digital skills programme (StoryLab Academy) in partnership with Google News Lab and the World Bank Group.

The initiative, run as an Academy out of Code for Africa (CfA) award-winning StoryLab journalism laboratory, will use a combination of online webinars and face-to-face learning to help entire newsrooms adopt new digital ways to find and tell the news.

The programme has a number of components comprised of Massive Online Courses and public workshops through the hacks/hackers chapters. The online course provides an opportunity for participants to learn about one tool at a time at their own pace. The public workshops provide sustained physical engagement where participants get to share knowledge on the various tools.

Regards

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Richard Zulu

Lead, Outbox 

Technology entrepreneurship and innovation

4th Floor, Soliz House, Lumumba Avenue, 

Kampala, Uganda

+256392000152

www.outbox.co.ug

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