4 years ago Oneworld, IICD and Hivos organized Fill The Gap 5 and it was called: “The mobile revolution: hope and hype?”, in the subtitle it mentioned the rise of the mobile phone in Africa. I attended that event and I remember Firoze Manji (Fahamu) and Ethan Zuckermann (Global Voices Online) on stage where Firoze at some point said: “I …
This is a guest blog by Gregg Mwendwa my colleague from Nairobi: So, the story goes on. Where were we? OK. Last time we were at 1 graffiti featured 3 times in media ie 1 time on newspaper and 2 times on TV. Since March 06, several developments. Graffiti discussion goes viral – people took photos and uploaded them on …
Traveling in India got much easier the last 10 years, was it 10 years ago only possible to buy train-tickets at a counter at a station, nowadays everybody can buy them online and take the printed ticket to the train, both trains I took it worked perfect, my name was glued to the compartment my seat was in case of …
After my last post I had a conversation with Tangere and with Janaagraha, so I would like to share more observations on the both presented cases in the previous blogpost. Sanmadhan Tangere is the producer of the software and looked for the development of this website to the combination of Ushahidi and Huduma but decided to build there own platform …
This is just a overview based on first discussions I had so far in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore, the coming week I will talk to the producers of maintainers of most of these examples at least the ones that are based in Bangalore. So the first example is http://sehore.samadhan.org.in/ or also http://koraput.samadhan.org.in/ both fit into the UN Millennium Campaign, working …
RT @rolfkleef: "Accessing aid information" - http://sfy.co/1dW great overview! [from http://twitter.com/hapeeg/statuses/43613870815838210]
RT @globalvoices: Kenya: Meet Kenyans on Twitter http://bit.ly/eDIbYp [from http://twitter.com/hapeeg/statuses/43612864539406340]
Training Kit on participatory spatial information management and communication http://ow.ly/47KgL #cta [from http://twitter.com/hapeeg/statuses/43605274203922430]
RT @VakbladVV: Partos-directeur ziet fusiemogelijkheden vooral bij together 4 change http://tinyurl.com/4jrz628 [from http://twitter.com/hapeeg/statuses/43600523701661700]
Wauw great news, gonna join right away: The New Ushahidi Community Website Is Live! – The Ushahidi Blog http://ow.ly/47ozz [from http://twitter.com/hapeeg/statuses/43397946154295300]
A short documentary on the Macedonian graffiti scene within the context of the state-sponsored art/construction boom, made by two female scientists and bloggers, has been shown at the renowned archeological conference Buffalo TAG 2012. Filip Stojanovski reports.
Taur Matan Ruak, East Timor's new president, was sworn in today, on the eve of the celebration of 10 years of independence since the UN transition from Indonesian rule. CJITL shared his inaugural speech [Tet], in which he emphasized the need to diversify the country's oil-dependent economy. Written by Janet...
In her first National Address, President Joyce Banda of Malawi indicated that the country will lift ban on homosexuality. Some netizens have reacted sharply in opposition to the pronouncement. Homosexuality, which is punishable by up to 14 years in prison in Malawi, is outlawed in 38 African countries and it can be punishable by death in Mauritania, Sudan, and northern Nigeria.
Xiaomi (twitter: xiaomi2020) is organizing an interview with Andrew Nathan, an internationally renowned expert on US-China relations from Columbia University. Submit a question or vote on a question that's already been asked here. Xiaomi is one of the organizers of Yizhe, a group which translates western journalism on China. Written by...
SautiProject is an African citizen journalism project supported by Al Jazeera Kiswahili and Pawa254 Sauti Project is an African citizen journalist initiative; a fresh perspective into the telling of African stories. It's journalism with a flair, stories with a passion. Written by Ndesanjo Macha · comments (0) Share: Donate ·...