Todd Kelsey
Wheaton, IL (USA)
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Location:
Wheaton
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Non Profit
Year Founded:
2008
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Description:
11-22-08
mText - Sustainable Multilingual, Multichannel Alerts to Save Lives
mText is an entry in the Knight News Challenge, and is in the top ranking of contest entries in views and ratings.
Proposal is requesting 975k from Knight Foundation, looking for in-kind/matching funding from Go BIG Network
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mText is a mashup of current and emerging multichannel broadcast technology - sms, rss, email, instant message, designed to result in an open source platform that could be used on a local basis to provide emergency alerts to local residents.
The pilot is designed to run in conjunction with a sustainable solar-powered linux server terminal project called Solar Net One, from Gnuveau networks, that was featured on (URL removed): (URL removed)
The goal of mText is to make communications technology as affordable and accessible as possible, 100% open source, both software and hardware, and to reduce the dependence on existing infrastructure as much as possible, including exploring how such a system could be used to facilitate communication in post-disaster situations when traditional infrastructure may be destroyed.
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