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-UNDER CONSTRUCTION<br>
+This is a work in progress. Feel free to add your own questions.
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-''What is MoJo?''<br>
+''What is MoJo?''
 <br>MoJo is an abbreviation (Mozilla + Journalism) for the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, a 3 year project that will place creative thinkers with open web skillsets within 15 news organizations for yearlong, paid fellowships. Knight-Mozilla fellows will be tasked with developing new journalism tools built on open technologies.<br>
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 <br>''I don't speak English very well or live in the U.S. Can I still participate?''<br>
-<br>Unfortunately, it will be very challenging to participate without a working knowledge of English, as we don't have the resources to localize our materials at the pace we will be working.<br>
+<br>It will be challenging to participate without a working knowledge of English. But we are an inclusive community and welcome participants from around the world.<br> We strive for Mojo to be an international program. In fact, four of our five partners in 2011 will host fellows outside of the US!
-<br>We already have 3 partners that will host fellows outside of the US (BBC, The Guardian, and Zeit Online) and are actively looking for opportunities to expand to other regions.<br>
+<br>Anyone in the world with web access and working English skills should be able to participate in the challenge and the broader conversation we are hosting.
-<br>Anyone in the world with web access and working English skills should be able to participate in the challenge and the broader conversation we are hosting. While we anticipate some challenges (eg visas, cultural differences, etc.) working internationally, this project will be most valuable if we face them. <br><br><br>
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 Most news organizations (especially older ones, but new ones, too, to a lesser degree) are "innovation-challenged." I.e., they examine many new innovations, may like them, but then ignore follow-up or actual implementation. (My news-innovation career is long enough to have seen this happen ad nauseum.) How can newsroom-"embedded" MoJo's succeed in fighting that dysfunctional culture when so many news technologists who have gone before them have failed (and often left the news organization in disgust)?<br>
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-Trivia<br>Q: What puts the mojo into MoJo?<br>A: MoJo rocks because it sponsors new journalism which will influence the way we experience and consume journalism. That's the mojo in MoJo.<br><br>
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