ABOUT
INTERACT
Welcome to Internews Interactive,
the home of 2wayTV and the Citizens Channel.
The widespread use of digital communication devices has
created a nation not only clamoring for fifteen minutes
of fame on national television, but capable of connecting
to it. InterAct’s mission is to help Americans gain
a place among the pundits and politicians who create public
policy, using the most powerful medium on earth, broadcast
television.
The digital convergence is reaching a tipping point, opening
new opportunities to expand the citizen’s role in
public policy debate. Blogs and other Internet tools have
already added a more public dimension to news reporting;
even entertainment TV has “real” people, giving
the un-buff and less-than-beautiful face time where it counts.
Personal digital devices that transmit people’s images
and voices -- cellphones, webcams, and uploadable video
-- all connect easily to the television studio, via digital
broadband technologies. Can real people, in their role as
citizens, now be included in the policy discourse that shapes
our nation?
Drawing on InterAct’s 20 years of experience creating
award-winning interactive television programs, we are finding
new ways to integrate broadband and broadcasting. As the
digital transition continues to expand, a nationwide network
of, by and for the people, is now possible for the first
time.