African reporters to produce short water films using mobile phones
Updated - Thursday 12 February 2009
Akvo is a combination of Wikipedia, eBay and YouTube for water and sanitation projects, aiming to create and share internet tools that help to provide clean water and proper sanitation . Akvo has launched a Simple Video Reporting product, jointly with Africa Interactive. Using this a team of African reporters are able to produce short films using mobile phones, and share them using YouTube and other internet video channels.
This is a new product offered to all AKVO partners with a set tariff designed to make it easy to commission films. The films help projects secure funds for Akvo projects, and generate a virtuous feedback loop, which encourages more funding of projects and increases the transparency of reporting. Films will be put online on the new Akvo Partner movie channel that has just been started, see http://vimeo.com/2621792.
Related story: IRC contributes to open source water and sanitation internet venture, Source Bulletin 52, May 2008
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