OjoVoz App Helps Underrepresented Communities Go Digital with Their Storytelling Eduardo Avila - Global Voices
go to original January 11, 2015

It is true that there are many mobile apps on the market that allow users to take photographs, record audio, or both, but the Android app OjoVoz (EyeVoice) is specifically designed with underrepresented and marginalized communities in mind. These communities may not be as familiar with technology, so the simple-to-use interface contains four buttons providing the user ability to take a photograph, record their voice, add a keyword, and then upload to the internet.

Beginning in 2011, programmer Eugenio Tiselli started to work on the mobile app after working nearly eight years working with the project Megafone, another project that provides digital storytelling tools aimed at diverse communities. With his current project, he has been able to provide the tools and support for groups eager to share their stories, culture, and knowledge with each other and with a wider audience.

In an email interview with Rising Voices, Tiselli stressed that OjoVoz is not simply the technology, “but rather the collaborative processes in the creation of knowledge. Even though they are mediated by technological elements, the most important is the co-existence and the face-to-face meetings that are generated as part of the dynamics of the projects.”

Over the past few years, the OjoVoz app has played a role in community projects in diverse places such as Tanzania, Colombia, and Mexico.

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