The SMS Gateway was featured in a report recently released by MobileActive as an open source mobile tool that could help make citizen created media more accessible. The SMS Gateway acts as a bridge between mobile phones and Drupal websites, letting people send sms messages to a website and website administrators send messages out to mobile phones via the site. We first built this proof of concept to improve election monitoring efforts, but built a flexible infrastructure so the SMS Gateway could be used for many different purposes. The tool could easily by use by a citizen media publication to allow citizen reporters to send mobile content to a central website and either post it directly or add it to the editing queue and give the site’s editors and easy way to contact its contributors.

The report discusses many other mobile tools that could also be adapted to be used for advancing citizen media. You can read the full report here.