At the Internews Center for Innovation & Learning we believe in using collective knowledge and best practices as resources to eliminate the need to reinvent the wheel. Our Innovation Advisors are constantly investigating the latest tools and innovative projects to share with the media development community through their blogs.
This blog originally appeared on the MediaShift Collaboration Central site.
The premise of the collaboration was simple: if organized crime can establish and manage a transnational, multibillion dollar business from Colombia to Mexico, surely Latin American journalists can band together to track them.
The Media Map Project began as a multifaceted two-year research collaboration between Internews and The World Bank Institute, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The pilot phase took place between 2010 and early 2012.
Half the Sky Movement: The Game (HSM Game) falls in to the ‘games for change’ category. It an adventure game and has two aims – to raise awareness about issues faced by girls and women across the world, and to raise funds that help empower them. This blog entry will explore some challenges and issues related to designing a game, and problematize the design models associated with embedded fundraising features for players.
What has made the internet and web what it is today? In the earliest browsers, there was an option to reveal the HTML source code associated with the webpage that the user was viewing. People learned by looking at this source code, and they created their own webpages and websites by using existing pages as examples: copying what they wanted, making modifications, and uploading the HTML code files to a webserver. Back then and even now, most ISPs gave users a small bit of storage to create a home page.
What will happen with the experience we have gained? How can we share our lessons learned with a broader audience?
