Other interesting speakers included Amanda Koster, an internationally acclaimed photographer and founder of SalaamGarage, a digital storytelling organization that sends citizen journalists to interesting places and helps them tell the stories of people they meet.

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The digital deadline is two short years away ( unless Public Citizen has their way) and there are still large, looming questions about the digital converter boxes that million of Americans are going to need.

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The fourth superpower is digital-media literacy skills that help citizen witnesses use media more safely and effectively.

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In the future, we hope that a global army of open-source code developers, students and other experts in digital signal processing, as well as citizen scientists willing to lend their intelligence to our exploration, will have access to the same technology and join our quest.

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