There are four finalists for a 2008 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation:
1. Ushahidi.com – A handful of Kenyan techies launched a site for bloggers and citizen journalists to report, document and map incidents of political violence following an apparently stolen presidential election.
2. Wired.com’s Wikiscanner – WIRED magazine’s blog, called “Threat Level,” made clever use of a brilliant new technology in the service of the public’s right-to-know, engaging readers in a crowd-sourced expose of corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries not favorable to a company’s reputation.
3. JDLand.com – A one-woman citizen media project to document and inform a local community about real estate development issues.
4. PolitiFact – Reporters and researchers from the St. Petersburg Times have partnered with Congressional Quarterly to create a “bold” resource for the 2008 election.
More information on the judges’ picks here.
