This is an introduction to crowdsourced journalism and crowd sourcing journalism tools.We tech their implementation during practical sessions

1. Crowdsourced Journalsim...........Gerald Businge gb@geralbusinge.com

2. What is Crowdsourcing ...Jeff Howe video…click to play

3. Types of Crowdsourced Journalism
•Crowdsourced Investigative
Journalism
•Crowdsourced Breaking
News
•Crowdsourced Data Analysis

4. News Process
Crowdsourcing
Applied across
The news
process
• Ideas
• Facts
• Witness
Leads
• Communication
• Consultation
• Witness
Investigate
• Checking
• Patterns
• Expert Review
Analysis
• Writing
• Multimedia
• Code
Authoring
• Copy
• Peer
• Crowd
Edit
• Host
• Promote
• Share
Publish
• Update
• DebateAnimate

5. Crowdsourcing Journalism Tools
Crowdsourced Journalsim...........Gerald
Businge gb@geralbusinge.com
www.frontlinesms.com/
an open source software
used by a variety of
organizations to distribute
and collect information via
text messages (SMS).fr

6. Ushahidi / Crowdmap
http://ushahidi.com
An open source tool for information collection,
visualization and interactive mapping

7. Clickatell / Bulk SMS solutions
www.clickatell.com/
offering simple and reliable SMS gateway connectivity
to 819 networks in 222 countries.

8. Freedom Fone
www.freedomphone.org/
platform enables
automated, interactive,
two-way, audio
information to be
shared through mobile
phone networks.
http://www.freedomfone.org/page/overview

9. Notice
allowing users to
contribute online and
mobule what is
around them
http://n0tice.com/

10. Micro tasking.: A simple
task that someone else
could do for you remotely.
Mechanical Turk
(Amazon), Crowdflower
(translation).

11. Social Media Tools
(Sourcing/Engagement)
Twitter
Facebook

12. Curation
Storify /
Scoop.it

13. Crowdfunding
Kickstarter / Spot.us /
Emphas.is
Wordpress plugin
Buy crowd funding
sitehttp://crowdfundingsite.net/

14. Key issues- Trustworthiness
•Deliberate disinformation.
•Hoaxes.
•Verification process: It's probably about not
going as fast as the rest. Not only relying on trust
networks but verifying thoroughly the old
fashioned way.
•Newsrooms present information that's not black
or white but grey (such as a live feed of tweets)
to which extent do media organisations get
involved in this or not, is labelling sufficient?
•Ends………