Tuesday, March 30

Using Mobile Phones To Broadcast News

Voice of the Village is a rural news bulletin in India which uses a mobile phone as the broadcast medium. The news is generated by the villagers and broadcast in their local dialect by native journalists, something which was previously not possible because of widespread illiteracy, rendering newspapers and SMS alerts ineffective. It focuses on hyperlocal news reported by local citizen journalists. Below is a video showing the tribal citizens using cell phones to produce local news.