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A new class of Knight News Challenge winners focuses on mobile in the...
Moments ago, the Knight Foundation announced its latest class of Knight News Challenge winners. The theme of this round was mobile, and thus it’s fitting that most of the projects are focused where...
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RootIO wants to take radio back to the local level in Uganda
Is it possible to create community radio without a studio or a tower? With his Knight News Challenge project, RootIO, Chris Csikszentmihalyi wants to enable neighborhoods and other small communities to...
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News Challenge winner Abayima takes a low-tech approach to communicating in a...
Knight News Challenge winner Abayima wants to turn an ingenious hack for feature phones into a low-tech means of sharing information in unstable parts of the world. Instead of using your phone’s SIM...
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Textizen wants to make civic engagement as easy as texting with a (really...
Wherever you live, it’s likely your local government makes big decisions without you. Should the city sell the old fire station to a condo developer? Where should the light-rail stops be located? In...
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Now recording: Knight funds an app for collecting oral histories
Most friends and family have oral histories — they just don’t realize it. That time as a kid your uncle ate so many waffles he cried? Or the time your best friends had to break into their apartment so...
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