DocumentCloud Reader Annotations

To engage readers in discussing and crowdsourcing news by allowing them to add their own notes and comments to material collected and displayed by previous Challenge winner DocumentCloud.

Overview

To help journalists find stories in large amounts of data through a new tool that finds patterns in and visualizes document sets.

Openblock Rural

To increase access to local information and strengthen rural newspapers technical expertise by using the OpenBlock system to aggregate and publish local, municipal data.

iWitness

To bridge the gap between traditional and citizen media with a web-based tool that aggregates user-generated content during big news events.

Tiziano 360

To help communities better tell their stories by building an accessible, multimedia storytelling platform.

FrontlineSMS

To help journalists use text messages to reach and engage with rural communities.

The Public Laboratory

To make technology work for communities by creating a tool kit and online community for citizen-based, grassroots data gathering and research.

Zeega

To help tell rich multimedia stories by improving a toolkit that allows people to collaboratively produce, curate and publish multimedia projects.

PANDA

To help news organizations better use public information by creating PANDA, new software that cleans up and aids in analyzing it.

Awesome Foundation News Taskforce

To experiment with a new funding model for local news by bringing together leaders and innovators in communities to provide microgrants to journalism and media projects.

Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy

To analyze issues of Internet unity, governance and structure and propose strategies to increase global Internet freedom

NextDrop

To develop a new, mobile model for disseminating community information by testing a service that notifies residents of a city in India when water is available.