Some friends of mine are submitted this project to Knight News Challenge http://www.newschallenge.org/
Citizen DAN is a complete, open source framework for promoting citizen journalism.
It is:
- an appliance for filtering, analyzing and "slicing-and-dicing" data specific to local community indicators;
- a meeting place for the public to upload and share local data and information;
- a Web data portal that can be individually tailored by any local community; and
- a potential node in a broader network of communities across which to compare measures of community well-being.
Good decisions and good journalism require good starting information.
Citizen DAN is a framework to provide access for any citizen to learn and compare local statistics and data with other similar communities. This helps to promote the grist for citizen journalism, as well as to provide a vehicle for discovery and learning across the community.
With Citizen DAN, anyone with Web access can now get, slice, and dice information about how their community is doing and how it compares to other communities.
If you want to take a closer look and even rate this application then go to
http://generalapp.newschallenge.org/...