Dr. Olivier Nyirubugara is a lecturer in New Media Production and Online Journalism at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a lecturer in Journalism and Communication at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Olivier has also been the senior coach and trainer for Netherlands-based Voices of Africa Media Foundation since 2007. His research interest includes (but is not limited to) alternative forms of journalism, especially mobile community reporting (MCR). That form of citizen journalism is centered on the use of mobile technologies by local journalists reporting about local community issues (For more about MCR his book on the subject: Mobile Community Reporting: A Grassroots Perspective on Journalism (Leiden: Side Stone, 2013).