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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Forwarded read from RSS:anthony posted this on there website: read more This is a copy I posted here: PBS MediaShift Outside of a crisis event, however, professional news outlets don’t offer the same type of participatory engagement for citizens. That’s not to say that news outlets ignore citizen reporting; indeed, their work is increasingly embraced. […]

Forwarded read from RSS:lmottaz posted this on there website: read more This is a copy I posted here: http://www.ifex.org/vanuatu/2013/05/10/facebook_comment/?utm_source=feedly Fri, 2013-05-10 IFEX Asia News Censorship and Surveillance Charges of terrorism laid and dropped against a journalist in Vanuatu over a Facebook comment need independent investigation, states the Pacific Freedom Forum. “A Facebook comment alone cannot […]

Forwarded read from RSS:mattindigo posted this on there website: read more This is a copy I posted here: The typical depiction of technological innovation is one that goes from a lab or company in the US or Europe to the markets of the developed worlds and then, after a certain period of time, spreads to […]

Forwarded read from RSS:R. S. Bist posted this on there website: read more This is a copy I posted here: The direction and pace of development in ICT have led practically all world economies to recognize the improvement of ICT in catalyzing economic activity, in efficient governance, empowerment of society and bringing about major socio-economic […]

Forwarded read from RSS:Dan Gillmor posted this on there website: read more This is a copy I posted here: Google’s Chromebook Pixel is the latest device pushing cloud data storage, but I’m not convinced it’s safe enough Google recently launched its high-end Chromebook Pixel, and like previous Chromebooks this notebook computer makes a distinctly 21st […]