5 – 6 September 09, Grahamstown – South Africa
Time flies when you’re having a good time! This is the last edition of Open Source, the daily newspaper of the Highway Africa Conference. Headlines include “Broadband and Economic Growth in Africa“, Tell me, How Should we See HIV?“, “Making Community News Sexy” and “From Bricks to Business Machines“. Don’t forget to have a look at the Back Page photos…you might be in there!
Wed, September 9 2009 » News » No Comments
It’s the third day of networking and time for the third edition of Open Source, the daily newspaper of the Highway Africa conference! The DCI 09 still features in this edition with “Africa Arms Itself with Technology” (on the DCI panel ‘Technology for Social Change: Land, Environment and Health), “Gay Man Eats Crocodile” (includes an interview with DCI speaker Nthateng Mhlambiso from Behind the Mask), “WWW Watchdogs” (with DCI speaker Bobby Marie from Tactical Technologies) and “Local Newspaper Reels in Citizen Reporters” (about the opening of the new Citizen Newsroom at Grocott’s Mail newspaper in Grahamstown). Don’t forget to have a look at the Back Page photos…you might be in there!
Tue, September 8 2009 » News » No Comments
By Reg Rumney – Director of the Centre for Economics Journalism at Rhodes University
Former radio journalist Jayne Morgan, now entrepreneur and podcast evangelist, ran a workshop on podcasting at the Africa Media Matrix this Sunday. After attending the workshop, which was illuminating, I asked her to talk a bit about the why and how of podcasting…
Podcast by Reg Rumney
Mon, September 7 2009 » News » No Comments
By Simphiwe Kanityi – Rhodes University
DCI 4.0 workshop facilitator Marlon Parker, a social entrepreneur and web and mobile enthusiast who uses technology to empower communities, says “it is overdue that technology has been perceived just as ordinary other tools but that it can change and empower societies”. He faciliated the Digital Voices to Reconstruct Communities workshop.
Mon, September 7 2009 » News » No Comments
