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Awards from Knight Foundation should mean big advances in availability of tools to build new systems and query government and other public related concerns.
In practical terms, Amara lets volunteers easily collaborate to create subtitles for all sorts of videos. While leveraging their language skills, its free, open-source API provides them with the...
Volunteers aside, the platform can also be used by professionals; in February, Amara launched a premium Enterprise section, which lets companies and other organizations use staff, contractors and...
Under his direction, Knight's Detroit office has led dozens of initiatives, online and offline, that have helped citizens engage, participate in, and support the city's growing social...
Amara is a technology that lets people bridge linguistic barriers in the world of video. In other words, it is a great example of what crowdsourcing can achieve. According to its parent...
After awarding 6 network-related projects last June, Knight Foundation is now granting funds to ideas that “ make it easier to access and use information on local communities, air quality,...
For the last five years, the John S. and James L Knight Foundation has encouraged local arts initiatives to compete against each other for a slice of their very generous funding via the Knights...
A team at Ushahidi, a 2009 Knight News Challenge winner, has been working on that problem since early 2010, developing a way to help users manage large quantities of data more efficiently — and...
In addition to measuring radiation in Japan, Safecast has made efforts to take readings globally to help with education and understanding of just what these measurements mean to residents of...
Knight Foundation’s Senior Adviser to the President, Eric Newton, shares new tools that digital journalists can use: 1. Spot.Us 2. Ushahidi 3. Public Insight Journalism 4. Mobile...
Crowdsourced translation platform Amara -- formerly known as Universal Subtitles -- just got a big vote of confidence from the Mozilla and Knight Foundations, in the form of $1 million in funding.
A video on Amara, the easiest way to caption and translate any video.
We take a look at some of the innovative ideas vying for recognition in the Knight News Challenge. The challenge focuses on open government, and crowd-powered submissions are prevalent.
Two of the Knight News Challenge winners focus specifically on video: *Watchup –- Founded by Adriano Farano,a former Knight Fellow at Stanford University and founder of a European “crowdsourced...
Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the "Center for Media Change" and funded by various groups like the Knight Foundation. They are partners with various organizations including the...
What happens when you pair a connected citizenry with social fundraising? ACTion Alexandria's online civic engagement initiative raised $104,156 in donations and matching grants for 47 participating nonprofits. The effort, held May 5-7 encouraged Alexandria citizens to donate using a variety of Razoo’s social fundraising tools from Facebook and Twitter outreach to emails and website widgets.
According to Swift River director Jon Gosier, SwiftRiver is a platform and not an app. Furthermore, he reiterated that SwiftRiver is a collection of APIs and those APIs process data for other...
After showing a montage of Al Jazeera television coverage of the Arab Spring, Mohamed Nanabhay, head of New Media at Al Jazeera, confirmed that some of the footage is from their cameras, but some...
In this session, two individuals share their perspectives on civic media with a global audience. Mohamed Nanabhay, head of New Media at the AlJazeera Network, helped unpack the North African...
The software called “Access Together” is a Foursquare-style app that allows users to check-in from various locations and answer simple questions about accessibility. The crowd-sourced information...
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