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Citizen Video-Journalism to Take Center Stage at the United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009 (COP15)
MaYoMo Launches Dedicated Copenhagen 2009 Video Channel for World Citizens to Rally Their Opinions on the Eve of COP15
| Source: MaYoMo
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - December 2, 2009) - MaYoMo (Map Your Moments); a powerful new
video-centric social network for citizen journalism and the most inspired
alternative source for global, multimedia news content; today announced the
launch of the Copenhagen 2009 channel -- a dedicated news channel to
address global climate issues and opinions. The channel was created in
advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
(COP15) to give citizen journalists a platform to voice their opinions
throughout the conference, which runs December 7-18, 2009.
"Our goal is to create a social citizen platform for debate and we have
started with a simple Yes/No question to determine how people perceive
their personal involvement in climate issues," said Hristo Alexiev,
cofounder of MaYoMo. "We want to provoke both climate change proponents
and skeptics to take a stand and to express their views on environmental
matters. In other words, we want to establish a global polling environment
and allow world citizens to talk to each other and have their opinion heard
on the eve of COP15."
To monitor the global attitudes regarding climate change and to engage
users to participate in the global debate on climate issues, the home page
of the MaYoMo Copenhagen 2009 channel asks the question, "Are you ready to
pay for the reduction of CO2 emissions?" Results are delivered in real-time
at http://mayomo.com/cop15, and global opinions can be filtered by country
for a demographic analysis of all results.
Access to content on the MaYoMo website is free. Anyone can quickly create
an account and start contributing content and uploading photos, video, and
other media assets -- from a variety of devices, including video-enabled
phones. The MaYoMo platform allows users to place their news reports not
only in the real world, but in "Virtu" as well -- a continent with virtual
countries, such as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and dozens more.
MaYoMo has achieved unprecedented geographic coverage for its new online
global news site. Since launching in late Q4 2008, members from 120
countries have posted more than 57,000 news articles. Follow MaYoMo on
Twitter at http://twitter.com/MaYoMo, or on Facebook at
http://facebook.com/mayomo.
About MaYoMo.com
MaYoMo is a web-based platform for user-generated news, through which
everyone can upload materials from either computers or mobile devices,
empowering a new era of Internet news creation and distribution. MaYoMo
lets users ask and learn, "What's happening, where and when?" Unique to
our service is the display of all news on a world map where we have also
built in a "Virtu" continent hosting news from virtual worlds. To
experience the power of news like never before, and participate in the
future of journalism and news content distribution, please
visit www.mayomo.com.