Knight Foundation

Informed & Engaged Communities

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Sunlight Foundation

To help the Sunlight Foundation expand its open datasets and tools, serve a larger public, and share lessons learned to improve open government.

The Texas Tribune

To help solidify a successful sustainable business model at the Texas Tribune, and share best practices with other non-profit news organizations.

Hollaback

To develop a pilot of a mobile application designed to allow individuals to report street harassment.

Geomancer

To create a prototype system to allow journalists to easily combine datasets based on geographic information.

The LAMP

To build an online video editor for use in media criticism and education.

Gui.de

Gui.de is a new engaging format for online news that gives all publishers, from bloggers to large news companies, the ability to offer their audiences a video experience

Submittable

Submittable enables publishers to collect, review and charge for submissions of text, video and pictures, providing better, more timely responses to audience generated content.

eCitizens.org

To develop software that provides real-time alerts by email of city council agendas, minutes and support documents by keyword or topic

Abayima

For content distribution and publishing via SIM cards for sharing information in technologically-limited or high-risk situations

Digital Democracy

For developing a mobile toolkit and training low-technology communities to collect and share information

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