Our Activities in SUM

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What is Mobile Reporting?

Mobile reporting implies using the mobile phone as a powerful reporting tool to capture, edit and uploads text, photo and video content!

The mobile phone enables the most effective way of multimedia reporting that our society has ever known. According to Wikipedia, the user creates text, photo and video that combined produces a multimedia based report. The content...read more

Mobile Reporting on RTL4

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Our Approach

We encourage talented Africans to play an active role in reporting about their communities by taking advantage of new media.

Voicing communities

African communities are underrepresented in media, often only visible when calamities occur. Day...read more

Honourable Award Winner

World Summit Award Best e-Content 2009
Deutsche Welle BOB Best Videoblog 2009
Official Honouree Webby Awards 2008

We have been awarded for our training website that shows hundreds of mobile reports made by our trainees: www.voicesofafrica.com.

Training website

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South Africa joins mobile project

PRESS RELEASE- Voices of Africa Media Foundation, in partnership with Johannesburg-based ABC Ulwazi and with sponsorship from The Hague-based Bernard van Leer Foundation, has launched a six-month mobile reporting training programme in South Africa, where six journalists followed a kick-off workshop from 11-13 August in Johannesburg.

“I really never thought that...read more