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Ustream is a live interactive broadcast platform that enables anyone with an Internet connection and a camera to create videos. Ustream uses a one-to-many model, which means that the user can broadcast to an audience of unlimited size. Ustream's platform has been used to broadcast everything from high school sporting events to Hollywood movie premieres. People are Ustreaming many events political events such as debates, speeches, rallies.

Pixelpipe is a media distribution gateway that allows users to publish text, photo, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 100 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and online storage. PixelPipe provides a number of mobile and desktop applications for users.

Podlinez is a free service that lets users in the United States listen to podcasts on their phones.  To find a podcast phone number, one can enter a RSS feed URL into the Podlinez website or browse the directory.  If a podcast is not available in the directory, one can add it to be available within minutes.

Managing News originated as a news aggregation and republishing platform heavily integrated with RSS/Atom. Users can track a diverse set of RSS/Atom feeds, visualize them, and republish selected reports on a platform that allows for mapping and pluggable visualizations. Managing News has subsequently added SMS functionality to the system. The system is based on Drupal, and integrates several open source projects including OpenLayers, SimplePie, and many Drupal plug-ins.

VC Audio Pro is an advanced mobile journalism tool for radio news. It allows users to record, edit and send professional quality audio news clips or full stories from their smartphones.

From a Mashable.com review: "Reeldirector is a video editing suite for the iPhone that can trim and join clips, add titles, and embed sound. Though editing on your phone for broadcast is probably not something journalists will need or want to do often, the app is perfect for creating a montage of short street interviews or key clips."

By using local numbers and relaying them through VOIP Rebtel can offer people low-cost international calls. The only cost for the user will be for calling a local number. Rebtel is busy launching SMS functions for free or low cost also.

Our solution is simple, and designed so that field workers and community members can manage the software directly:

Aidlink Alerts - Send Messages in 4 Easy Steps:

1) From any mobile phone (or a secure web panel), create SMS “mailing lists” of community member/field staff phone numbers.
2) Segment your phone number “mailing lists” according to specific criteria: location, age, gender, or more. Give each mailing list its own numeric code.
3) On your phone (or online), create an alert message (eg. “Reminder: Training today at 3 pm”).
4) Send SMS alert to thousands of community members at once, or just to specific
groups, by entering the codes of the "mailing lists" you'd like to reach.

Aidlink Surveys - Gather Basic Data in 4 Easy Steps

1) On a secure web panel, create your SMS survey: a sequence of short questions that can be sent out via text-message.
2) Send an SMS “alert” (see above) to thousands of registered users—or a small group of people—inviting them to answer the survey questions.
3) Users “text” their answers to the questions, one at a time.
4) Survey results appear directly in a secure online database, for quick analysis and response. Easily exportable to Excel/SAS/SPSS.

Groundcrew offers features that non-profits, businesses, local communities, and individuals can use to mobilize support, simplify logistics, motivate actions, and respond quickly as situations arise.

• rally community members around a particular issue
• gather them in real life squads,
• mobilize and address these squads in real-time,
• coordinate them spatially, as individuals or in groups.

Open Data Kit (ODK) is suite of tools that enables users to collect their own rich data. ODK is designed to let users own, visualize, and share data without the difficulties of setting up and maintaining servers. The tools are easy to use, deploy, and scale. They also go beyond open source — they’re based on open standards and supported by a larger community.

ODK’s goals are to make tools modular and customizable so that they can be easily composed into appropriate arrangements for each deployment; exploit open interfaces and standards so that solutions are not "siloed" into monolithic enterprise-level packages tha tare difficult to understand and maintain; and establish data collection tools at the cutting edge of technology so as to avoid early obsolescence and make it easier to attract talented developers.