Finally, a Mobile App for Geolocated News in Latin America  · Global Voices
Patricia Carolina Saucedo Añez

FACTICO is the first mobile media designed in Latin America to geolocate information. But, what is app all about?
FACTICO es la aplicación de noticias e información más innovadora y atractiva de América Latina. Nuestras notas son compactas y fáciles de leer, y todos nuestros contenidos están georreferenciados. La información más importante del día y los mejores eventos están en FACTICO.
FACTICO is the most innovative and attractive app of news and information in Latin America. Our news are compact and easy to read, and all our contents are georeferenced. The most important news of the day and the best events are at FACTICO.
Bellow there is an example of how FACTICO Mexico works:
Todo pasa en la Ciudad de México. Nosotros ponemos el mapa, la pasión la pones tú. #FACTICOteacerca https://t.co/p2DmXd6LOn
— FACTICO (@FACTICO_MX) April 9, 2015
Everything happens in Mexico City. We provide the map, you provide the passion.
In their manifest,o the creators of FACTICP state who they are and what they expect:
Somos lxs que creímos la promesa de la pluralidad en los medios y terminamos viendo la censura explícita y velada. Pero aprendimos a hackear el problema […]
Somos lxs que hemos salido a las calles a observar, a documentar lo que pasa en esta región del mundo poco entendida. Y por eso sabemos que no estamos solos.
Somos lxs que estamos cansados de las “historias oficiales”, de las declaraciones sin sustancia y de los replicadores del discurso que no cuestionan, que no preguntan.
Somos lxs que no aceptamos que se nos diga “ustedes no existen; sus ideas no importan; bajen la voz.”
Estamos aquí. Existimos.  Y estamos diciendo algo.   Porque nunca como hoy ha existido más gente conectada, con ansias de conocer, saber y cambiar la manera de hacer las cosas.
Porque trabajamos e innovamos en red. Colaboramos. Mapeamos. Documentamos. Observamos. Damos contexto. Y no dejamos de experimentar.
We are the ones who believed in the promise ofmedia plurality and ended up seeing explicit and veiled censorship. But we learned to hack the problem […]
We are the ones who went out into the streets to observe, to document what happens in this poorly understood part of the world. And it is for that reason that we know we are not alone.
We are the ones who are tired of “official stories”, of insubstantial statements and of echo chambers that don't question speech.
We are the ones who do not accept being told “you do not exist, your ideas do not matter, lower your voices.”
We are here. We exist. And we are saying something. Because there have never been so many people connected as today, wanting to know, to find out and to change the way of doing things.
Because we work and innovate online. Collaborate. Map. Document. Observe. Provide context. And we do not stop to experiment.
Keep up with news about the app via the hashtag #FacticoTeAcerca (FACTICO brings you closer), and download the app here, available for Android and iOS.