Voices of Africa gives reporters high-tech mobile capacity

Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on August 1, 2007 at 1:41 PM

The Africa Interactive Media Foundation and citizen journalism website Skoeps have launched Voices of Africa, a project designed to train, pay, and equip African journalists with do-it-all mobile phone devices.

Thanks to these devices, reporters in South Africa, Mozambique, Ghana and Kenya will be able to record their stories on their phones and upload them directly to Africanews.com, a site dedicated to the project.

"What we do at Skoeps is use a mobile page which can be viewed on phones or on an ordinary web browser. Modern phones with internet connectivity can find this mobile website and there you can directly upload images,” says Hidde Kross, Skoeps' vice-president.

The gathered news content will then be sold to news agencies, television stations and newspapers to help finance the project.

Source: Journalism.co.uk through European Journalism Center