Citizens Media

Description

The Citizens Media® (CM) [1] is an open-everything platform and collaborative environment to create new distributed systems [2] that enable real change to occur. Merging complex technologies into an integrated, mobile-enabled interface, by working in real-time projects [3] with those we are meaning to serve, and coupling with a peer to peer (P2P) development group, we deliver end-to-end communication solutions that unite and empower people and their communities in developing and developed nations around the world.

The first priority for CM is to give voice to unconnected people of Africa from both within and across communities, regionally and further afield [4]. Centered around the provision of tools and strategies that facilitate the development of small scale agricultural enterprise, by enabling the world's rural poor to share experiences and gain access to knowledge and information for implementing best practices, CM will help them to realise new, sustainable opportunities for pulling themselves out of poverty and moving forward with dignity and a sense of pride.

Facilitating P2P transfer of individual skills and experience-based expertise that connects connected and unconnected worlds, uniting real time action with technology for cross-pollinating data and making local products available through mobile-enabled exchange, by working together, The Citizens Media® provides a direct means for people to create value through the generation of sustainable, community oriented socio-economic exchange.

Partners: iDE (International Development Enterprises [5] My Arms Wide Open [6] Waters Edge [7] [8]

Videos: (1) About CM[9]; (2) Project Network: Water's Edge[10] (3) Tutorials[11]

For further information, please visit: TheCitizensMedia.com [12]