FrontlineSMS: How to Create a #Mobile Newsroom for Disaster Reporting | Geojournalism Handbook
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FrontlineSMS is a free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone or modem into a central communications hub to facilitate structured communication between members of the network and the public.
Once installed, the program enables users to send, receive, and manage incoming and outgoing SMS messages, including multimedia messaging. Because it uses text messaging technology, it offers (...) a low-cost option to setup a central communication hub for its journalism projects.
All data lives on the computer, rather than on a server controlled by someone else so the communication manager has better control to traffic information sent to the network.
