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Adaptive News Contextualization Framework and Rendering System |
To construct a new journalistic workflow and an associated framework aimed at providing consumers with a contextualized view of news events. Our goal is to explore and develop methodologies of presenting news in a dynamic fashion that go beyond the timeframe and structure limitations of the editions (in newspapers), newscasts (radio and television), and postings (internet). |
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Civic Journalism for Community Empowerment Country:Paraguay |
To provide timely and relevant local news, in formats that would empower citizens with information to participate in the decision making process, promoting good governance, and community-building. |
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Doing Away with Dewey ~ Unifying Digital and Physical Collections |
To connect all physical library collections, Informative materials, media, and books, cultural objects, and specific physical locations and objects with a global digital community and open knowledge network which is mobile as well as virtual using common language, semacode, and free creative applications. |
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Drupal Advanced Survey Module with Geo-specific Result Reporting |
To provide a solution for surveys in Drupal-powered community or journalism Web sites. |
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Drupal Advanced Survey Module with Geo-specific Result Reporting and Mapping |
To provide a solution for surveys in Drupal-powered community or journalism Web sites. |
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Explota el Voto |
To utilize online digital spectrum with television to broaden community and real-time content offerings with the vision of reaching and encouraging civic engagement for U.S. Hispanics/Latinos. |
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Flash Storytelling Templates |
To address the need of journalists to access free content templates by establishing an online site for Flash storytelling templates that is free, open-source, specific to the needs of the multimedia journalist, and based on community participation and collaboration. |
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For the People |
To explore the use of Microsoft's accessible XNA framework to develop serious immersive experiences for PCs and the XBox360 that are factual, accurate and timely. |
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Improving Access to Justice for the Poor in Nigeria |
To utilize mobile phones, e-mail and volunteer journalists covering events in Nigerian courts to offer efficient and easily accessible early intervention communication support to indigent criminal defendants by linking them up with legal aid lawyers and their family members on being charged to court and before they are remanded in prison for early legal intervention. |
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Interactive Narratives 2.0 |
There are certainly more journalists and other storytellers out there with the passion to tell their narratives in multimedia. But there's also a lot of data smog that clog up the ability to see what's great and how we can learn from each other. Today's Web 2.0 universe empowers the users to help create social networks and connect with each other. But there's still the need to distinguish the powerful and insightful stories. Time is too short to sift through the YouTubes of the world. In comes Interactive Narratives 2.0. |
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Louretta: An open-source, socially networked, small-town newspaper CMS |
To build a world-class online content management system for small town papers. |
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Mobile News Coverage for Ethnic Minority Communities in Georgia |
To create mobile news and mobile video reports for minority communities in Georgia and distribute them via cell phones using 3G (Third Generation Network). |
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MyRadio: an online comminty radio news and programming exchange platform |
To allow community radio stations of South Africa to exchange interviews, news reports, and debates they produced in their communities. |
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Providing Locally Customized Political Information |
To demonstrate how Congressional transparency data affects citizens and their congressional districts on the local level. |
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Readable Laws: Legislation in Plain English |
To translate Congressional legislation into plain English so that everyday citizens can read it, understand it, and know how it affects them. No citizen should need a law degree to read a bill from start to finish. |
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Semapedia.org - Hyperlink Your World! |
To connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the Wikipedia to the relevant place in physical space. |
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The Continuum Project |
To help local communities establish an online presence including geotagging, aggregating, and distribution of multimedia content on the Web and mobile phones. |
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The MIT Museum Without Walls |
To create a navigation, guidance and information system that will simultaneously serve and strengthen the wider community that shares a presence on the MIT campus. |
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The Networked Journalism NYC Community Resource Guide |
To develop an on-line tool for journalists – professional and otherwise – to more easily navigate a vast, labyrinthine bureaucracy in the search for what should be readily available public information. |
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The Opinion Pool |
To build and quickly bring to market model online templates and tools that deliver high quality, interactive opinion journalism — much of it local — and that move beyond traditional opinion-page content to cultivate a new generation of citizen contributors trained in the values of professional journalism and empowered to use new media to promote civic dialogue and community problem solving. |
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The People's Times |
To customize the Drupal content-management system to provide free access to a simple and intuitive Interactive noticeboard where local information can be placed and read for clubs, societies, sporting teams, community groups, resident’s associations and other forms of non-profit organizations. Also to offer a community section with a range of Web 2.0 functionality that empowers each community to manage their own online communication. |
