Stomp - Singapore’s citizen reportage community
Published on 8 Aug 2007 at 6:07 am.
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Hi there Edong here. In a previous podcast I talked about murmur in Toronto Canada.
But in this podcast I’d like to talk about stomp in Singapore. Stomp is a community, stomp is a website, stomp is a movement. I don’t know what it is exactly but I first heard..read about it on a Singaporean paper while I was at Changi Airport on the way to Malaysia last month.
Stomp is something like community reportage. Singaporeans will take photos of issues that they think are relevant and then they would submit it to stomp. And then in the Stomp community, the website, in the website they post, feature photos and the authorities will take note of it and take action. And I think in stomp they also follow-up with the story. Examples of the stories, while I was in Singapore, some of the newspapers published some of the stomp stories. And one of them was a photo of a dog least chained to a gate and he was right under the sun, so it was an issue because it’s animal cruelty.
Another was a story about a some guy taking photos of school girls, two school girls. One was supposedly a good girl and a bad girl. One girl was eating ice cream and threw her trash on the trash can the bad girl threw her trash on the street, there is another story behind that.
Stomp is similar to you’d say, we can say it’s similar to “Hoy Gising!”, the popular TV segment, news segment, we have under Ted Failon before. It’s something like calling the attention of to the authorities or whoever is concerned except that it’s not the TV Network that puts together the story. It’s the community, it’s the citizens who put together the story and stomp the website is just a repository a medium where people can report their story.
On another note, in the Philippines there is a similar thing by Inquirer, I think they call it “citizen watch”. And I’ve been wanting to write about it ever since. Citizen watch is sending photos via mms or text reports via sms to Inquirer about streets that are not clean or maraming lubak or basura na hindi nako-collect, things like this. I see print ads on Inquirer encouraging people to send but I don’t know it doesn’t seem to pick up probably because mms do not pick up in the Philippines.
Another story I have is about something similar during the election. I remember this poster of well in essence the story is there was a movement of encouraging the youth to report election-related incident and send it to a certain number. I don’t remember where it is now what number it was. An example of citizen reportage and it’s something that can help our country if only we participate more. Maybe less of the reklamo and more of the action. maybe we could put this to our advantage, citizen reportage.
Singapore for one had taken this media, this medium or this model to heart. It’s very hip, Stomp is very hip, it’s very popular and it’s effective. let’s see how we can do that for the Philippines. What do you think?
You can visit stomp at: http://www.stomp.com.sg
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6 August 2007
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