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Moving journalism into the digital age
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
As the news business experiments with new ways of creating and delivering journalism in the digital age, we’re keen to offer support at the grassroots level. Over the past two years, the Google-funded
IPI News Innovation Contest
has awarded $2.7 million in grants to media projects throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
On September 13, we celebrated the fund’s 17 winners at the Guardian in London. The event included a Google+ Hangout on Air to allow contest winners who couldn’t make it to the event in person to participate - and to allow the public to watch.
Grants were given to both non-profit and for-profit organisations working on digital journalism initiatives, including open-source and mobile technology projects created by or for journalists and distributed in the public interest. Winners ranged from the
Guardian’s own experiment with collaborative journalism
to the
World Wide Web Foundation’s Citizen Journalism project
in Africa to
Mediacenter Sarajevo’s data journalism program
in Bosnia. You can find links to all the projects here.
In London, much of the discussion focused on making the winners’ innovations sustainable. IPI plans to host an ongoing online dialogue to keep track on progress. We’re delighted to be part of that conversation.
Posted by Peter Barron, Director, Communications, Europe, Middle East and Africa
Growing our Map Maker community in Europe
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Exploration is at the heart of the summer season, and what better way to take part than sharing your knowledge on the places you love on Google Maps? Today,
Google Map Maker
is diving into summertime by welcoming mappers of Czech Republic, Hungary, Sweden, and Bosnia and Herzegovina to our ever-growing team of citizen cartographers in our quest to map the world.
With Google Map Maker, you can contribute your local knowledge to make a more useful and comprehensive map of the changing world around us. Begin in your neighborhood and try adding the building footprints for local shops and restaurants. Then, embrace your inner traveler and enrich the maps of national parks and historic landmarks. If you’ve got the itch for adventure, try adding campgrounds, beaches or your favorite hiking trails.
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Jajići, Bosnia and Herzegovina was a blank space on the map
before citizen cartographers put it on the map.
Whether it’s a cycling route through Budapest or a cafe alongside Prague’s Vltava River, each improvement to the map will help locals and tourists alike as they navigate your neighborhood this summer. Once approved, your contributions will appear on
Google Maps
,
Google Earth
and
Google Maps for Mobile
.
To get started, join other mappers on the Google Map Maker
community forum
, explore the
Help Centre
for tips and tricks, or watch mapping in real-time with
Map Maker Pulse
. Now, from the
Heart Shaped Land
, through Central Europe, to Swedish Lapland, you can help Google Maps to embody the rich culture and spirit unique to your homeland -
starting today
!
Posted by Kaushik Sridharan, Software Engineer
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