{"id":67118,"date":"2014-11-21T06:27:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=67118"},"modified":"2015-06-12T09:25:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T09:25:37","slug":"citifm-wins-hackagainstebola-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/11\/citifm-wins-hackagainstebola-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"CitiFM wins #HackAgainstEbola competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"yiv1683197716\"><span class=\"yiv1683197716\">CitiFM beat competition from some media houses to win the 2014 Editors Lab organised by \u00a0Global Editors Network (GEN) and Penplusbytes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv1683197716\"><span class=\"yiv1683197716\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv1683197716\"><span class=\"yiv1683197716\">The competition, under the theme \u2018Hack against Ebola\u2019 saw participants build new tools for covering and preventing the Ebola epidemic (at a local, national or regional level).<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv1683197716\"><span class=\"yiv1683197716\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv1683197716\"><span class=\"yiv1683197716\">The Citi FM team which was represented by the New Media Manager, Mawuli Tsikata, Broadcast Journalist Betty Kankam Boadu with technical support from Kingston Tagoe, developed a Mobile Platform that enables people, both educated and uneducated to receive information and updates on the status of Ebola in the country in their preferred local language.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv1683197716\"><span class=\"yiv1683197716\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv1683197716\"><span class=\"yiv1683197716\">The <strong>Citi FM<\/strong> team will represent Ghana at the 2015 edition of the GEN Summit in Barcelona, Spain.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv1683197716\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv1683197716\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67120\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_4600-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4600\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_4600-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_4600.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1683197716yui_3_16_0_1_1416550797472_2372\" class=\"yiv1683197716\"><span class=\"yiv1683197716\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv1683197716\">Graphic communications group were the 2nd runner for their &#8216;Ebola Tracker&#8217; app whilst the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation were adjudged the 1st runner up for developing an Ebola game, &#8216;Ebola Snipper&#8217;.Participating teams included Multimedia Group, Ringier Africa, NAFI, Business &amp; Financial Times and Spy Ghana.The GEN Editors Lab programme is a worldwide series of hackdays hosted by leading news organisations such as The New York Times, The Guardian and El Pa\u00eds.The 2014 edition of the Editors Lab in Ghana was organised by Global Editors Network (GEN) and Penplusbytes with support from BBC, Google, Osiwa and Internet Solutions.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CitiFM beat competition from some media houses to win the 2014 Editors Lab organised by \u00a0Global Editors Network (GEN) and Penplusbytes. \u00a0 The competition, under the theme \u2018Hack against Ebola\u2019 saw participants build new tools for covering and preventing the Ebola epidemic (at a local, national or regional level). \u00a0 The Citi FM team which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":67119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[18,43,38],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CitiFM wins #HackAgainstEbola competition - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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