Minority Voices in Mainstream Media

Looking to the past to map out a better future

Resdida is developing a mobile content distribution, messaging and M&E platform to organizations working with the BOP to increase their reach to poor communities, while offering access to knowledge and opportunities for health and prosperity.

Media literacy tools Calendars Media Ownership (history, policy, effects, $$$) Washington D.C. Policy change efforts (issues legislation, representatives' contact info) Media Justice, Reform, Democracy sector activities Cross sector activities Local, regional, national, international media/communication rights activity More robust organizational information for partnerships and collaborations.

The 4 main interfaces/data sources that people will interact with - news from http://daylife.com and http://groundreport.com and SMS/messaging capabilities from Twitter and Flurry mobs.CBC 'Pop Demand' allows users to specify keywords of social change that they want to keep track of. Users can submit these keywords, which are evaluated and added to the social channel taxonomy. Once the request for certain keywords exceeds a certain number, this keyword becomes an official channel. Some examples channels:* Crisis & Conflicts * Education * Energy * Social Sector Finance * Microfinance * Women's Rights * Cultural Rights * Child Rights * Human Trafficking * Poverty * Human Rights * Environment * Health * Community Improvement * Arts & Culture * Public & Social Benefit * Safety & Disaster * Employment Issues * Urban DevelopmentA user can subscribe to one or more channels over SMS. CBC continuously polls the news for these keywords, and notifies the subscribers of the respective channels over SMS or twitter with a summary of news of those keywords. CBC uses twitter to send and receive SMS. Twitter users can send a direct message to the daylife twitter user dlfe, to recommend keywords for subsciption (eg d dlfe tax 'microfinance'). The CBC system saves the keyword and adds it to the channel request list. News messages are also sent to the users as direct messages to their twitter user ids.

Link TV has already launched a linear website that allows people to post “video letters” about the 2008 U.S. presidential election, with an emphasis on international submissions. Visitors can watch short videos uploaded from all around the world, of people speaking to the camera on diverse issues like aid to Kenya, Burmese autonomy and America’s image abroad. They can upload video letters themselves, or leave text and video comments. We envision making these videos more accessible by plotting them on a world map with pinpoints indicating where the videos come from. A concurrent project at Link TV records and logs TV news reports from countries all over the world (Global Pulse). We would like to take as many as 30 world reports covering the U.S. election from countries like China, Russia and Iran, and plot these videos on the map, too, using a different color pinpoint, adding new news reports as the election cycle progresses. These pop-up windows could play the news video, and also have a tab for an RSS feed from the featured broadcaster. Other tabs could have RSS headline feeds for that country from alternative news sources like Global Voices. As a “nice-to-have”, it would be interesting to incorporate other statistical details with these video popup balloons, such as country statistics on GDP, poverty level, and (optimistically) broad assessments of U.S. aid and military involvement.

People who read an article by an author, or visit content associated with a tag, will be plotted on a map of the US/world. THe mashup will plot where the readers of the content come from. We publish 1500+ articles a month and have over 55,000 articles, over 8000 tags, over 10,000 member writers we'll be able to use this with.Readers will even be able to see a map of who has looked at the same articles. Imagine you are thinking of moving to a new location. You take articles you've read and look at maps of where the readers come from. That might give you an idea of where you'll find like minded people.We're also going to be adding polling to the site shortly, so we'll be able to map responses to polls. Our polling system will be open to any member to use, so it will be easy for anyone to create a poll, then map the results. This will be invaluable for campaigns, causes, advocacy orgs... Then, we also collect demographic info, so we'll be able to add that layer to the mapping.