NOWCastSA is a virtual neighborhood public square where people come together online to share news and information relevant to them, their family, friends, and neighbors.

NOWCastSA empowers neighborhoods to define for themselves how to best create, exchange, and use community information and conversation.

NOWCastSA provides hands-on training for citizen journalists creating engaging stories and information through the use of online broadcast technology and social networking.

Who We Are

NOWCastSA is a grassroots project of the Alamo Area Community Information System (AACIS) and is funded in part by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, administered by the San Antonio Area Foundation.

• AACIS is comprised of over 25 public, private, governmental, educational, and healthcare organizations working together to create opportunities for community connection.
• AACIS mission is to focus on creating opportunities for the community to connect new technologies and rich information resources and support the educational, economic, and social opportunities that follow.
• Over the past 10 years, AACIS has led the democratization of information through its comprehensive data center and five technology learning centers, offering classes on English as a second language, computer literacy training, G.E.D. certification, and citizenship. 

NOWCastSA is managed by a team of professional new media journalists dedicated to raising the awareness of neighborhood issues, concerns, and accomplishments.

• The pilot studio is located on the second floor of the downtown Central Library.
• Using state-of-the art online broadcasting technology, NOWCastSA offers live streaming and on-demand video of special events, community stories, and educational resources important to the neighborhood.

What We Do

NOWCastSA provides an interactive online communications portal for sharing neighborhood news – from neighborhood meetings and celebrations to disaster preparedness and volunteer opportunities, NOWCastSA focuses on the events, issues, and concerns that matter most to the neighborhood.

• Working hands-on with citizen journalists of all ages, the NOWCastSA team helps build new bridges for neighbor-to-neighbor communications.

• AACIS’s online Data Center is a feature application, offering searchable, community resources for health and human services as well as rural and urban statistics and information about the Alamo area.

• The AACIS technology centers serve as additional neighborhood based hubs for NOWCastSA Internet and educational facilities.

We Need Your Support

NOWCastSA is committed to creating a vigorous online broadcasting platform so citizens can take ownership of news and information important to their neighborhood. Managed by proven communications leaders with expertise in community journalism, new media technology, and social networking platforms, NOWCastSA is poised to give San Antonians a greater voice in revitalizing the community’s flow of information. However, in order to be effective in its outreach and usage NOWCastSA needs community and additional corporate support.

• Your support helps NOWCastSA fulfill the need for more comprehensie “inter-neighborhood” news and informational resources.

• Additional corporate support will help increase NOWCastSA’s service as a vital new communications platform; widen its educational outreach to the community; and organize a larger collective voice for neighborhood­centric news and information.