Safecast
Momoko Ito Foundation
- Date Awarded
- 09/01/11
- Amount
- $250,000
- Grant Period
- 09/01/11 to 08/31/12
- Focus Area
- Journalism & Media Innovation
Grantee Contact
- San Francisco, CA
- www.itofoundation.org
Featured Media
Safecast Presentation by Joi Ito at Ars Electronica 2011 (HD) from Safecast Japan on Vimeo.
To establish Safecast, a network of sensor devices to collect crowd-based submissions of data about the environment
Project Team
News & Updates
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Knight Blog
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Communities use Knight-funded technologies to recover from disaster
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Winners of News Challenge: Data
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Human rights funders consider mobile media projects
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Sensor network helps get accurate data about radiation levels in Japan
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Report offers funders ways to strengthen funding in mobile, tech
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Effort to crowdsource radiation information in Japan to expand
In The News
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From radiation to smog, numbers for the public
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Four key trends changing digital journalism and society
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Knight Foundation announces support for new open mapping tools
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Knight News Challenge data winners announced
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Knight announces a data-centric class of News Challenge winners
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Knight News Challenge winner will make historical election data easily accessible
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Knight News Challenge awards $2.2 million to the winners of its Data round
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American praised for getting Japan radiation data
