Technology + The Democratization of News

TECHNOLOGY THE DEMOCRATIZATION

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“Citizens that were once only passive recipients of information are now contributors to the story.”

- Dale Zak, Ushahidi developer

January 2010: 3,584 reports and 500,000 views

“The 2010 Haiti earthquake response will be remembered as the moment when the level of access to mobile and online communication enabled a kind of collective intelligence to emerge.”

- Disaster Relief 2.0, the United Nations

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It’s hard to make sense ofa lot of real-time information in short periods of time.

Diversity of devicesdisrupts the distributionof digital media.

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It’s hard to make sense ofa lot of real-time information in short periods of time.

Diversity of devicesdisrupts the distributionof digital media.

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TECHNOLOGY THE DEMOCRATIZATION

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