Phase 10: Tactics to Bridge Digital Divide and Incorporate Alternative Viewpoints

Keywords

* Digital Divide
* Multimedia Bridging Solutions
* Public Insight Journalism

Intention

* Find innovative ways for using existing technology solutions for gathering and including a broader range of perspectives into The Echo Chamber documentary and online discussions.
* Use volunteer filmmakers to establish Peer-to-Peer connections with "disenfranchised citizens," and have them ask a series of short questions relevant to the developed themes of this documentary.
* Use Man-on-the-street interviewing techniques for more random connections.
* Leverage the insights of Minnesota Public Radio's Public Insight Journalism Project which uses a random sample of 1000 ordinary citizens for story ideas and content development.
* Gather sound clips from citizens by using tools that record telephone conversations to MP3s. (i.e. using Audioblogging for call-in numbers or Skype for conversations).
* Recruit other filmmakers or multimedia developers to edit their own short or feature films with the material.
* Potentially gather International perspectives on topic of the media and the build-up to the war in Iraq.

What I have

* A documentary project that could be used as a filtering platform for these include these perspectives.
* Will have an online community where individuals can amplify these perspectives to other users.
* OurMedia.org could facilitate the hosting requirements for this type of collaboration.

What I need

* A Digital Divide Multimedia coordinator to help facilitate this
* Designated content screeners to listen to and sift through the submissions.
* Other filmmakers interested in specializing in creating multimedia from the voices on the other side of the digital divide.
* Other ideas for how to use multimedia tools to incorporate more people into the conversation.

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