Internews Center for Innovation & Learning

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Media Map Project - Visualizing Data about Media Development

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.

Games, fundraising and epic meanings

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.

Promoting and teaching digital literacy

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.

Internews online courses - Sharing experiences and best practices with local media worldwide

What will happen with the experience we have gained? How can we share our lessons learned with a broader audience?

Learning from Obama's Campaign

Technology, social media and data analytics played a significant role in Obama's 2012 campaign win. Digital campaigners and movement builders around the world are deconstructing the campaign strategies in order to replicate them.

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Blogs

Tools

  • Ubuntu

    Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. It also means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers. 

    Ubuntu is part social and part economic: free software, available free of charge to everybody on the same terms, and funded through a portfolio of services provided by Canonical.

Research

Welcome

Initiatives

Crowdglobe: an open research platform aimed at informing the future use of crowdsourcing mapping methodologies by highlighting deployments and research in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) field.

Harnessing Design for Media Development: exploring methods of Design Research to gain a better understanding of how information and communications are impacting the livelihoods of marginalized communities

Media Map: an initiative to explore, interact with, and analyze data on media development, bringing together comparable data on how media, technology, and communication intersect with traditional development statistics.