GlobalMojo

The Digital Media and Wireless Association of British Columbia (DigiBC) and VeriCorder Technology unveiled the MoJo Revolution for the Winter Olympics. It’s a new way to gather and distribute news using only a smart phone. David Barkwell, senior vice president for sales and marketing of British Columbia-based VeriCorder, describes its new application as “integral to the world’s most ambitious and innovative assignment to date in mobile journalism”. Mojo Revolution consists of a sports broadcasting network powered solely by VeriCorder’s software running on iPhones. When the Winter Games start on February 12, journalism students from the University of Missouri, BCIT, Fanshawe College, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Langara plus a group of professional reporters will be recording, editing and filing stories on the web, and streaming audio and video, using VeriCorder’s new ShowCase multimedia software.

Before and during the games, VeriCorder and DigiBC are offering 200 free Showcase software licences, plus training and hardware, to journalists, journalism students, and bloggers covering sporting and other events in and around the Winter Games.