GlobalMojo

Ruud Elmendorp has produced an excellent short report video on how people in Kenya in Africa use the mobile phone to send money to friends and relatives. Africa is leapfrogging the world when it comes to mobile options.

This short video from the excellent Voices of Africa project shows how the mojo concept has expanded in Africa. The first paragraph summaries the concept: “The Africa Interactive Media Foundation is convinced that mobile technologies will change the media landscape in Africa by offering more practical and more efficient reporting tools.”

Mojos should consider entering the European blogging competition sponsored by the European Journalism Centre in 2009. The centre wants to offer a platform for journalism students and aspiring journalists and bloggers to express their views about Europe, as well as cover elections in the region. Visit this site for more information. Registered participants get a […]

The editors’ blog of the World Editors Forum has a brace of excellent articles about a Kenyan media group’s embrace of convergence and the mobile phone. Part 1 is here and part 2 here. Four in every five people in Kenya have a mobile phone.

The Knight News Challenge closes midnight October 31. I submitted my proposal, a citizen mojo project, today.

The European Journalism Centre runs an excellent site for journalists. It is one of the sites I look at daily. This article on the need for more technology skills among journalists caught my attention. I gave a talk about mojos to the EJC staff in June this year.

Cyberjournalist reports the launch Know the News from of LinkTV. It’s a set of free web-based tools for news literacy that focus on international television news. The project is currently being beta tested by communications and journalism classes at the University of Texas, Austin; American University in Washington DC; and students from the Salzburg Academy […]

Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, has launched its fifth annual blogging competition. Bloggers and blog-readers around the world have until September 30 to submit their favourite blogs for consideration. People will be encouraged to vote online between October 27 and November 27. Winners will be selected by both online voting and a jury, and winners […]

Frank Barth-Nilsen of NRK has set up a great mojo site. This is one occasion when I lament being so mono-lingual. The site is in Norwegian, I assume.

The Washington Post plans to use mojos to cover the Republican and Democratic conventions. A news release describes how reporters from WashingtonPost.com and Newsweek.com will use a “cutting-edge cell phone application from Comet Technologies” to stream video from their cell phones for a live webcast. “Reporters will stream convention developments and questions from people directly […]