Mercy Corps and ESI Design Launch Significant Global Video Field Dispatch Program to Support Aid Projects

NEW YORK, NY — 06/04/08 — Mercy Corps, a global relief and development agency, and ESI Design, a world leader in experience design, today announced the launch of an intensive development phase for possibly the first broad-scale video field dispatch program by a major non-governmental organization (NGO). Produced with inexpensive off-the-shelf technologies (like webcams and digital cameras), dispatches will improve awareness in the U.S. about progress achieved by aid projects in countries such as Sudan, Congo, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Ethiopia through the unfiltered, previously unheard voices of relief workers and aid beneficiaries.

Read More – Earth Times

Leave a comment