Cases

Immersion

Gone Gitmo

An immersive docu-game based on the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, originally designed for Second Life and now available in Unity, based on actual reporting and facts.

Publishing

Peivast

A monthly hardcover magazine covering the latest’s insights on ICT developments in Iran.

Visual

The Nisoor Square Shootings

A piece of graphic journalism, which reconstructs the Blackwater Killings in 2007 on a central roundabout near Bagdad through an interactive webcomic imported into Google Maps.

Networks

Hong Kong In-Media

An open public platform, free from political intervention and commercial influence, which promotes democracy and freedom of speech in Hong Kong.

Publishing

Malaysiakini

Launched in November 1999, Malaysiakini is one of the earliest online independent media portals in Asia, delivering news and opinion in English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil.

data

Data Atlas

Online world maps visualizing existing data sets about major global development issues. Both the original data sets and the visualizations may be used free of charge.

Crowds

Citizens’ Investigation

A participatory journalism and crowdsourcing project launched by the world-renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on his personal blog. The project aims to discover the number and the names of the schoolchildren who died in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake.

data

Mapping Arms Data

An interactive data visualization that tracks arms and ammunition flows in order to understand the global arms trade and inform public debate and policy interventions.

Immersion

Desert Rain

Desert Rain is a groundbreaking multi-media installation that immerses participants in the complex relationship between reality and virtuality, inspired by the 1990-1991 Gulf War.

Million Dollar Blocks
data

Million Dollar Blocks

A spatial information design project that looks at rarely accessible criminal justice data in new ways by using mapping software.

Crowds

TRAC FM

TRAC FM A free, cloud based software platform using radio and SMS to track citizen reports and collect citizen feedback.

Networks

Mediapart

A group of driven and accomplished French journalists in search of a new business model for creating a profitable independent press online.

Point of View

Chimurenga

An innovative, multimedia platform that challenges cultural dominance and xenophobia with free ideas, new aesthetics, and political reflection by Africans about Africa.

Networks

Mídia Ninja

An activist journalism network specializing in real time broadcasting.

Visual

Next Media Animation

Next Media Animation provides the “missing images” of the news by producing news animations based on news feeds and factual reporting for international media outlets.

Visual

Firestorm

An online interactive story about a family’s harrowing experience during a severe bush fire in Tasmania that integrates various media in visually innovative ways.