Joyce Barnathan, Technology Transfer Tools - ICFJ, 11 June
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Why Think South-‐to-‐South
Technology Transfer Tools – International Center for Journalists
InfoAmazonia – Uses satellite and other public data to map environmental degradation, making it easy for journalists to detect problems such as deforestation and pollution. This technology was then used for the 3 following projects.
Oxpeckers – Tracks poachers in protected wildlife regions in Southern Africa.
Land Quest – Maps oil and water interests and what is happening to profits from these investments in Kenya.
EKUATORIAL – Maps degradation of oceans, forest fires and other problems in Indonesia.
Shu Choudhary’s Mobile News Service is powered by trained citizen journalists, who provide news for the first time in the local language to communities in a remote region of India.
IVR Junction – IVR Junction developed on Shu Choudhary’s original mobile news service which brought reports by trained citizen journalists to poor and isolated tribal communities. IVR expands on the original idea by linking these stories to social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Periodistas En Riesgo/Journalists at Risk – Uses crowd-‐sourcing to map threats and attacks against journalists in Mexico
Manual De Seguridad Digital y Móvil/Manual of Digital and Mobile Security – An online handbook in Spanish on digital security for journalists written by Knights Fellowship Director Jorge Luis Sierra.
Iraqi Journalists Rights Defense Association – Inspired by the interactive map tracking attacks on journalists in Mexico created by Jorge Luis Sierra. And in a new program, Sierra and ICFJ will help Iraqi journalists develop a database of threats against freedom of expression and expand the map to visually display this data.
Code for Africa – Developed in Kenya and expanded to South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria, this movement embeds technologists into newsrooms to train journalists how to mine and visualize data for stories. They also help the news organizations design mobile apps that expand access to news.
Investigative Dashboard & Secure Reporter – The Dashboard allows journalists with limited data skills to easily mine databases or seek help from data experts, while ICFJ developed the Secure Reporter platform so that journalists can share information across borders without fear of hackers, backed by hostile drug lords or repressive governments, gaining access to it. While Investigative Dashboard & Secure Reporter were developed during programs in Eastern Europe, we have translated the tools into Spanish, and hired a data researcher to work with Latin American investigative reporters.
GotToVote – Developed through Code for Africa, the technologists used government data to build a website that gave Kenyans information on how and where to register to vote.
Hackdash – Based upon the Code for Africa movement, Knight Fellow Mariano Blejman developed Hackdash, a free and open source platform that lets Hackathon organizers better manage new ideas. This tool is being used from Finland to Nepal, from the U.S. to Uruguay.
Chicas Poderosas – Founded by Knight Fellow Mariana Santos, Chicas Poderosas, aims to get Latin American women involved in media technology.