by Mark Glaser
MediaShift

Perhaps some day in the not so distant future, every person on the planet who has a cell phone camera will be able to snap a photo of a newsworthy event happening in front of them and easily send it to a web clearinghouse of such news images. That’s the dream of Erik Sundelof (pictured at left), a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, a program that aims to develop technology to advance humanitarian goals in underserved communities.

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Erik Sundelöf, Class of 2006 was recently featured in the PBS Media Blog, Mark Glaser’s MediaShift. In a blog titled “Stanford Fellow Imagines Every Cell Phone as Citizen Media Outlet,” Glaser describes Erik’s project as well as including an edited transcript of a discussion between the two about the vision, logistics, and future of cell phones as a media outlet. Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Chertok and Adam Tolnay have articles featured on the Global Knowledge Partnership’s website Beyond Tunis (http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkpbeyondtunis).

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