Reuters correspondents, a few select big name executives and bloggers will be carrying around “mobile journalism toolkits” to take photos and shoot videos during the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting occurring now in Davos, Switzerland, according The Guardian.
Reuters and Nokia are collaborating on this effort, and I wrote about the “toolkit” in my weekly “Thinkernet” column for CMP’s “Internet Evolution” site. If the toolkit is similar to the one I wrote about, it contains a high-end Nokia camera phone, software to stream live video, a Nokia keyboard, a tripod designed for camera phones and a power supply.
The article says the Nokia phone will be an N82 (see below), that is the handset manufacturer’s latest high-end, five megapixel handset. It records videos at 30 frames per second (the same as the Nokia N95 was that included in the toolkit I discussed in “Thinkernet”). The N82 incorporates a Xenon flash; the N95 doesn’t.
Capturing Davos images
“The idea, according to Reuters, is for the mobile journalists to capture ‘compelling images’ as well as file stories, photos and videos directly from the handsets to Reuters' dedicated Davos website,” The Guardian says.
WEF attendees who are getting the toolkit include Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief executive of the WPP Group; Jeff Jarvis, a well known media blogger, Guardian columnist and journalism professor at the City University of New York; and the Reuters chief executive, Tom Glocer, and editor-in chief, David Schlesinger.
Robert Scoble, a well known blogger who just joined Fast Company to develop online 
videos and other new media, received an N82 from Reuters, and he’s also transmitting live videos from Davos via the Qik online video site. Very early this morning I was watching live when he received the camera phone from Reuters (see left), as I just wrote in the previously entry.
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