A Virtual Town Hall - Direct Democracy in Action
Requested amount from Knight News Challenge:
$800,000Total cost of project including all sources of funding:
$1,200,000Expected amount of time to complete project:
2 yearsUtilization of a real time virtual 3D 'Townhall' broadcast on television that allows up to 100 viewers to use a regular telephone to create an avatar, move that avatar in the environ and then participate in individual, group and conference calls using IVR and telephony 2.0 technology.
The web component of this project would include local news delivery systems that would allow members of the community to comment on, and vote up or down, critical issues. The top issues would then get discussed on the virtual TV Townhall by users with the highest 'karma' ratings from other members.
User Generated Content (USG) from members such as video could uploaded via the web component, mobile phones or even recorded and captured using their webcams (in streaming real time) and then rebroadcast in a small strategically placed overlay screen or box over the virtual playout on TV allowing a mix of virtual and real visuals.
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Advanced delivery of social media
This will allow community-voted representatives in a community to communicate and participate - discuss and deliberate over issues that important on a macro-level.
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TV 2.0 meets Telephony 2.0 meets Web 2.0
This concept will use telephony 2.0 - or advance IVR open source technology (Asterisk) in combination with Quest 3D technology to stream on a broadcast server - which will allow people - in the comfort of their own living room - to pick up a phone, create an avatar and participate in audio conferencing on their televisions.
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Original Developers of the Cross Media Social Platform (CMSP)
Original developers of the Cross Media Social Platform - we are Sparkling Media - which is currently broadcasting twinners.com in Denmark and Belgium.
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