African mobile journalism project launches
By Leah McBride Mensching, Tuesday 31 July 2007 at 20:44 :: World Digital Media Trends :: #347 :: rss
A project with the goal of training, paying and providing advanced mobile phone equipment to African journalists has launched Tuesday in four of the continent's countries.
Voices of Africa will begin providing reporters in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa with state-of-the-art mobile phones to help them better do their jobs, capturing stories on the hand-held devices so they can upload them anywhere.
Backed by Africa Interactive Media Foundation and the Dutch citizen journalism Web site Skoeps, the project has supplied the technology and publishing platform that allows mobile reporters to submit work to the Voices of Africa area of Africanews.com, according to journalism.co.uk. The complete packages, video footage and still images will then be sold to news agencies, television stations and newspapers to help finance everything.
"GPRS is present in all the countries we are working in now," Hidde Kross, Skoeps vice-president, told Journalism.co.uk. "What we do at Skoeps is use a mobile page which can be viewed on phones or on an ordinary web browser. Modern phones with Internet connectivity can find this mobile Web site and there you can directly upload images.”
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