The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. Winners receive a share of $5 million in funding and support from Knight’s network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas.
Throughout 2012, innovators from all industries and countries are invited to participate in three challenge rounds, each with focused topics on emerging trends.
Round 1 - on networks - is closed, and the winners will be announced June 18.
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Details on Round 3 will available later this year.
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Peepol.tv is a world wide TV station powered by people using mobile phone streaming technology.
Though there have been efforts to aggregate live stream content related to particular events (such as live streaming the occupy movement), the idea has not been developed in it’s full potential, aiming a world wide streaming network.
Peepol.tv is built upon existing streaming networks like U-Stream and Tweet-Caster (twitter), aggregating all live streams into a single searchable map that reports what is happening world wide, something like a map-searchable live Youtube.
Because 1) the widespread use of mobile phones and increasing penetration of the internet, enables the capability of millions of smart phone users to be broadcasters of a world wide “live” TV. 2) though crowd-sourced video platforms like Youtube and Vimeo are successful, they do not satisfy the need for “live content”. 3) Peepol.tv fills in that gap, by aggregating into a single searchable map live-streamed content from all around the world. 4) Like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, Peepol.tv creates the incentive to “post and be seen”. Live stream videos have never been as cool as in Peepol.tv
Peepol.tv started as a joint project between two leading social web entrepreneurs/developers: Felipe Heusser (Chile) founder of the Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente and Berkman Fellow at Harvard University, and Jeff Warren (USA) former Fellow at the MIT Civic Media Lab, co-founder of the Public Laboratory and well known for his balloon-mapping work. Peepol.tv benefits from Felipe’s web-project development ability, and Jeff’s strong expertise in maps, coding and design. However,giving the open nature of Peepol.tv, more than Jeff’s and Felipe’s work, Peepol.tv benefits from the collaboration of an open community of developers.
Peepol.tv is in it’s first stage of development. The architecture of the project has been already designed and an alpha version of Peepol.tv is available online with it’s correlative code published on Github. The aim has been to build Peepol.tv openly, publishing the code and each version online, inviting the web-developer community to get involved and collaborate to build the people’s streaming tv.
The sustainability of Peepol.tv relies on the ability of the website to engage with a widespread community of users and web developers. The aim is to secure a permanent feed of live-stream content, as well as to foster a collaborative loop of software building.
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