NewsTools 2008

a conceptual mashup for journalists, technologists and entrepreneurs

Edward Cherlin
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  • Cupertino CA
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mokurai
When you registered, you told us about a particular technology, project, service or idea you'd like to learn about, or which you'd like to present to fellow participants. Briefly, again, what was that?
One Laptop Per Child is providing hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren with a rugged, low-cost laptop that includes a video camera. We want to encourage student journalism.
What resource, person, organization or company would you like to see participating in NewsTools2008 in order to spur the transformation of journalism?
http://www.earthtreasury.org/
http://www.wiserearth.org/
http://www.bytesforall.org/
How do you define "journalism that matters," and please suggest ways for journalists and technologists to collaborate (structure, events, groups, processes) in ways mostly likely to sustain it.
Billions of people in poverty have never had their voices heard in the global conversation about our shared future. For the first time, we can hear from them what their problems are, rather than from so-called experts, most with axes to grind.

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