2008

To customize the Drupal content-management system to provide free access to a simple and intuitive Interactive noticeboard where local information can be placed and read for clubs, societies, sporting teams, community groups, resident’s associations and other forms of non-profit organizations. Also to offer a community section with a range of Web 2.0 functionality that empowers each community to manage their own online communication.

To construct a new journalistic workflow and an associated framework aimed at providing consumers with a contextualized view of news events. Our goal is to explore and develop methodologies of presenting news in a dynamic fashion that go beyond the timeframe and structure limitations of the editions (in newspapers), newscasts (radio and television), and postings (internet).

To address the need of journalists to access free content templates by establishing an online site for Flash storytelling templates that is free, open-source, specific to the needs of the multimedia journalist, and based on community participation and collaboration.

To connect all physical library collections, Informative materials, media, and books, cultural objects, and specific physical locations and objects with a global digital community and open knowledge network which is mobile as well as virtual using common language, semacode, and free creative applications.

To utilize mobile phones, e-mail and volunteer journalists covering events in Nigerian courts to offer efficient and easily accessible early intervention communication support to indigent criminal defendants by linking them up with legal aid lawyers and their family members on being charged to court and before they are remanded in prison for early legal intervention.

To explore the use of Microsoft's accessible XNA framework to develop serious immersive experiences for PCs and the XBox360 that are factual, accurate and timely.

To build and quickly bring to market model online templates and tools that deliver high quality, interactive opinion journalism — much of it local — and that move beyond traditional opinion-page content to cultivate a new generation of citizen contributors trained in the values of professional journalism and empowered to use new media to promote civic dialogue and community problem solving.

To create mobile news and mobile video reports for minority communities in Georgia and distribute them via cell phones using 3G (Third Generation Network).

To connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the Wikipedia to the relevant place in physical space.

To provide timely and relevant local news, in formats that would empower citizens with information to participate in the decision making process, promoting good governance, and community-building.