Connecting journalists across borders - How can technology help?

Are you a journalist, correspondent, photographer or anyone who travels to do reporting? Have you ever wanted to easily be able to get access to media practitioners while traveling to another country on assignment, or searching for content from citizen reporters?

A new start-up is aiming to create a network of global reporters to make connections easier, share knowledge and even costs of reporting. Femke Awater and Charlotte Waaijers founders of http://www.correlations.nl/ will come and tell us about this new initiative and how secure technology can help improve their platform for journalists who want to remain anonymous.

Next, Sjoerd Klumpenaar and Elze van Driel will be talking about De Buitenlandredactie (http://debuitenlandredactie.nl/) (The Foreign Desk), a platform connecting Dutch and Belgian correspondents and providing aspiring correspondents with information and inspiration. They will give their views on the changing nature of being a correspondent and how correspondents can use technology to do their job. Moreover, they will present an open-source map showing where Dutch and Belgian correspondents are currently base

Last, Mark Fonseca Rendeiro aka Bicyclemark; Portuguese-American, Amsterdam based, alternative journalist and independent podcast producer specializing in online journalism, social movements and global conflicts. Mark is the producer and host of Sourcecode.Berlin (http://sourcecode.berlin) a bi-monthly Wikimedia Deutschland podcast on open source, open culture and creativity in the city of Berlin. He will talk about sourcecode.Berlin and the intersection of journalism.

Stay tuned for other speakers and if you would like to give a talk please contact me at tsegaye@freepressunlimited.org.

Refreshments will be provided by Free Press Unlimited (http://www.freepressunlimited.org) and Internet Protection Lab (http://www.internetprotectionlab.net/).