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Frontline SMS

Published on 15 Nov. 2007 in software and toolkit. 2 Comments Tags: elections, essential toolkit, FrontlineSMS, gadgets, interactive, mobile, Nigeria, Pakistan, rural, sms, software.

I am convinced that Frontline SMS or something similar should be part of an essential toolkit for rural radio stations within the footprint of a mobile telephone signal.

Frontline SMS is a text messaging system “conceived, designed and written firmly with the needs of the non-profit sector in mind”. Basically it is an SMS management and broadcast system that runs on a computer connected to a mobile phone with a data cable. All you need to do is insert a SIM card and you broadcast SMS messages to your listeners and classify and process messages received from them.

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Reuters/Nokia Collaboration Has Potential for Citizen Journalists

Published on 02 Nov. 2007 in gadgets and toolkit. 0 Comments Tags: essential toolkit, gadgets, mobile, multimedia, nokia, reuters, software, video.

MobileActive.org has written about a Reuters/Nokia collaboration to design and test a mobile phone equipped with a camera, video, a tripod, GPS, an external keyboard, an external microphone, a solar charger and software that turns it into a portable studio that a journalist can use to record, edit and transmit stories with audio, photos, video and text. This may be overkill for radio, but I don’t know of another phone that lets you record with a good quality external mic. According to a Reuters article on the toolkit, it required a special adapter plug made by Nokia.

A good mobile phone with multimedia capabilities is part of our ICT and community radio essential toolkit.

Read the story from MobileActive.org: Reuters/Nokia Collaboration Has Potential for Citizen Journalists