Partners & Support

Locast is a project designed and developed by MIT Mobile Experience Lab (http://mobile.mit.edu).

Partners and Supporters in the Locast - Civic Media project are:

Partners

PUCRS

PUCRS - The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul reached the status of a university in 1948, and was granted the title of Pontifical University in 1950. It is one of the largest and most distinguished institutions of higher education in Brazil. It offers 71 undergraduate programs, 24 Master's degree programs and 17 PhD programs. PUCRS have more than 30.000 students and is located in the city of Porto Alegre.

Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul
http://www.pucrs.br

FAMECOS

Famecos - The Media Communications Faculty has more than 50 years of tradition as one of most distinguished learning and researching center in Brazil. Famecos offers journalism, advertising, public relations and cinema undergraduate programs. The faculty also have a graduate program that offers master and PHD programs.

FAMECOS
http://www.pucrs.br/famecos

Supporters

FAMECOS

Grupo RBS
http://www.rbs.com.br/

TIM

TIM
http://www.tim.com.br/

What is Locast?

Locast is a flexible and cutting-edge location-based platform that combines distributed Web and Mobile applications that create hyperlocal and highly-connected experiences.

How can I contribute?

If you own an Android handset, you can download the Locast mobile application. If not, you can upload your videos to this website.

Locast for Civic Media?

Locast Civic Media is a mobile & web platform to engage citizenship in the process of collecting, reporting and disseminating news and information related to the urban environment.