SAOViVO
{"title": "SAOViVO", "logoImg": "bafkreib3myrfyrnvkbd3xpfhvxsfvsr6eaiggzars2jaxeyzihhkr4jywm", "website": "https://saovivo.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreib6cbhai246qcaxsdgooxktifihmfyg5u2i5grk754feoezbt2geu", "createdAt": 1737895361085, "userGithub": "IKSNicoR", "credentials": {}, "description": "Problem\nLocal and small newsrooms face significant barriers in accessing live streaming technology. Expensive infrastructure, complex workflows, and limited technical expertise prevent many journalists from sharing real-time stories with their audiences. This creates a gap in media coverage, especially in underserved regions where reliable and timely reporting is crucial.\n\n\nSolution\nSAOViVO is an open-source and free software designed to make live streaming accessible and efficient for newsrooms and creators worldwide in 3 simple steps:\n\n1) Create a video queue.\n\n2) Copy and paste a stream key from YouTube Studio.\n\n3) Go live instantly with the possibility to include \"real live\" events in the queue.\n\nHere is a 1-minute demo\nhttps://youtu.be/3ZDE2M2SNMo\n\nThe project vision is to leverage technology so that newsrooms and creator´s resources can be redirected toward making original content rather than being spent on costly studios, infrastructure, cameras, and lighting. \n\nWinner of the LATAM Innovation Challenge 2023 by the Google News Initiative, SAOViVO has been instrumental in empowering small and local newsrooms across Latin America. Notable users include El Toque in Cuba, DNews (covering the Venezuelan elections in 2024), and an array of YouTube channels with huge libraries uploaded, like broadcasters and long-standing YouTube channels.\n\nHere is Nico Russo (founder of SAOViVO) telling the story on how the app helped a newsroom to make livestreams during Venezuelan elections.\nhttps://youtu.be/BVlse61Oazo\n\n\nUpdate Since the last round\nIn 2024, +100 newsrooms and creators have downloaded the software in English and Spanish from SAOViVO.org. \nBetween April and November of 2024, with the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, supported by Microsoft, on SAOViVO got selected to be part of “The AI Journalism Lab.\" After 5 months of work, the software integrated artificial intelligence, creating AI-driven video blocks with weather data, to enhance local storytelling and simplify complex information for audiences.\n\nThe MVP was created and is functional; here is the demo showing how to create a video queue. After that, AI Video Blocks are added, displaying the weather in Washington, DC, between each video in the queue.\nhttps://youtu.be/8tDVOtmIUBo\n\nIt was showcased at the ONA (Online News Association Conference) in Atlanta in September of 2024.\nhttps://youtu.be/i4pxCTrQ6DE\n\n\nThese video blocks add up-to-the-moment information to the video queue, which was one of the features that users of SAOViVO mentioned was lacking during the first year of usage. We believe this opens up a huge possibility of creating an \"App Store\" of video blocks made with automated content and AI features. This aligns with the vision of making content for livestreams and providing free resources so creators and journalists can invest their time where the stories are happening instead of being in a studio in front of a camera.\n\n\nPlans for Funding:\n-Create a livestream that the blockchain community can use for their own purposes, e.g., an \"exchange video block\" that shows and tells the US dollar change with any coin. We look for feedback insights from the community that could help us guide decisions, with the DAO voting on content to be streamed.\n-Enhance Accessibility for people outside the blockchain: Improve the open-source, free-forever functionality of the app, ensuring that anyone in the world can easily create their livestreams by downloading and using the software.\n-Expand AI-Driven Features: Develop an “App Store” for livestream tools to provide sustainability for the project. Additionally, create a cloud-based solution that eliminates the need for the app to run on a local computer, making it more accessible and efficient for all users.\n-Build a Community: Foster a network around the software that includes both technical and non-technical individuals. This is crucial to support newsrooms in underserved regions, enabling them to participate in live streaming and storytelling.\n\nTeam Members\nOne of the ways we are building community today is by creating content about how journalism can be improved through the use of technology. These videos are produced by SAOViVO's founder, Nico Russo, a product manager for newsrooms with over 20 years of experience as a video creator. \n\nHere are Nico´s channels\nhttps://www.instagram.com/nicorusso_com/\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@iksoviet\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRdSEn3K-Myc9EKW7di7AmA\n\n\nThe SAOViVO team also includes Emiliano Billi, the lead developer with 15+ years of experience in broadcast media technology. Nico and Emiliano have been partners since the beginning of the project, working on it while also contributing to other developments and providing consultancy services to other companies in the media industry.", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "SAOViVO"}