Big Picture Journalism project: Call for participation
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Richard Zulu
May 17, 2012, 5:16:19 AM5/17/12
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Hallo all,
I would like to bring to your attention the Big Picture Journalism project conceptualized by Internews Europe and funded by the International Press Institute. The project goal is to strengthen African journalists’ capacities through training in the use of crowdsourced journalism techniques which aim to leverage citizen participation and increase the representation of local voices and perspectives through both traditional and new media channels. Check out this link for details http://goo.gl/wlN4z
More to that, Are you a journalist? Are you someone interested in new media in general? Are you a developer? If so, this will definitely be of interest to you!
Hacks/Hackers is a rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organization with dozens of chapters (and counting) and thousands of members across four continents (and counting). Our mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information.
The roots of Hacks/Hackers were planted in 2009, based on the interests of three people interested in the intersection of journalism and technology.
In Massachusetts, at a conference organized by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Aron Pilhofer of The New York Times and Rich Gordon from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, proposed creating “a network of people interested in Web/digital application development and technology innovation supporting the mission and goals of journalism.”
This first meeting is primarily to get start the first Hacks/Hackers chapter in Kampala (that will be the first Chapter in Eastern Africa and actually in SubSaharan Africa). It will act as a meet and greet (to allow people to put a face to the name). It will also be an opportunity to go through the general guiding principles for the running of the chapter to allow for harmony, coordination and organization going forward.
Thank you
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Richard Zulu
gtug lead, Kampala (Uganda)
http://kampala.gtugs.org
I would like to bring to your attention the Big Picture Journalism project conceptualized by Internews Europe and funded by the International Press Institute. The project goal is to strengthen African journalists’ capacities through training in the use of crowdsourced journalism techniques which aim to leverage citizen participation and increase the representation of local voices and perspectives through both traditional and new media channels. Check out this link for details http://goo.gl/wlN4z
More to that, Are you a journalist? Are you someone interested in new media in general? Are you a developer? If so, this will definitely be of interest to you!
Hacks/Hackers is a rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organization with dozens of chapters (and counting) and thousands of members across four continents (and counting). Our mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information.
The roots of Hacks/Hackers were planted in 2009, based on the interests of three people interested in the intersection of journalism and technology.
In Massachusetts, at a conference organized by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Aron Pilhofer of The New York Times and Rich Gordon from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, proposed creating “a network of people interested in Web/digital application development and technology innovation supporting the mission and goals of journalism.”
This first meeting is primarily to get start the first Hacks/Hackers chapter in Kampala (that will be the first Chapter in Eastern Africa and actually in SubSaharan Africa). It will act as a meet and greet (to allow people to put a face to the name). It will also be an opportunity to go through the general guiding principles for the running of the chapter to allow for harmony, coordination and organization going forward.
For now though, you can register in the google group that can be found here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/hackshackers-kampala and also check this out: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/supporting-innovation-in-african-news.html and support innovation in Africa News, get a chance to enter the Innovation Challenge.
Thank you
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Richard Zulu
gtug lead, Kampala (Uganda)
http://kampala.gtugs.org
Co-organizer Garage48 Kampala
Organizer Startup Weekend Kampala
http://startupweekend.org
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