Due to the increasing demand for timely information on migration issues and the movement of persons within West Africa, frontline journalists in Ghana have found it difficult to report from the field on migration issues because of lack of a functional smartphone mobile application to facilitate reporting. Additional challenges for journalists reporting on migration issues from the field is the difficulty in sharing information among themselves and ability to reach a wider audience as well as access up-to date information on investigative journalistic reporting on free movement and migration in Ghana.
In order to address these challenges this functional mobile application which is compatible with target mobile device operating systems such as Apple iOS,, Research in Motion’s OS,, Hewlett-Packard’s webOS (formerly Palm OS) and Phone OS and for users specifically in Ghana with the aim to assist journalists to facilitate reporting on migration issues from the field has been developed.