Our NewsVerse application was selected as one of the top 64 from over 3000 applications in the recent Knight News Challenge social grant application. Knight News Challenge describes itself the following way: “The Knight News Challenge is a contest awarding as much as $5 million a year for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news.”

We came close, very close, but, alas – no luck this time. So as a result, while we look for other support, we have decided that the best way to develop our unique blend of cutting-edge software development, grassroots journalism and media criticism is to launch our application as an open-source project. This project will be also accompanied by a foundation that will act as the central hub for the various activities around NewsVerse. Among other things, we are planning on starting an Internship Programme for talented coders and journalists, a online portal for learning “Code”, “Content” and “Criticism” and many other things.  The idea is to open up every step of the development and to provide opportunities for other people to benefit and learn from this development process.

Please watch this space as it develops. And have patience; we all still have our day-jobs.

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