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November 26, 2007

News from Slum TV, Nairobi

slumtv.jpg Slum TV, the media arts project in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, has been busy. The first screening of newsreels by local residents in Korogocho was covered by Nick Wadhams on Voice of America radio, and you can hear his broadcast, along with analysis by local viewers, at . Also, Kenyan-born artist Sam Hopkins reports from the roof of his van about the third screening in Mathare at . New newsreels and dramas will be on the project Web site in two weeks, say the Slum-TV artists. "In the meanwhile, we are working with Jaume Nualart on subvideo , our step forward into the semantic Web. Nualart is a programmer and also active in the OLPC project (One Laptop Per Child), and his software will allow online translation tools for videos." [LINK]

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