Digital Citizen Indaba 5.0

DCI 5.0 Programme – 07 July 2010

DCI 5.0 Programme

07 July 2010

09:00 – 09:05 Welcome Address
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• Jane Duncan (South Africa) – DCI Coordinator and Chair of Media and Information Society at Rhodes University
• Elvira van Noort (The Netherlands) – DCI Coordinator and Owner EvN Media Solutions

09:05 – 09:30 Keynote Address
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• Kambale Musavuli (DRC) – Friends of the Congo

09:30 – 10:30 Panel Discussion: Natural Resource Exploitation Exposed
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• Moderator: Ashraf Patel (South Africa) – ICT Program Manager at South Africa- Finland ICT Program (SAFIPA)
• Anya Schiffrin (USA) – acting director of the International Media and Communications (IMC) program and an adjunct professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
• Eric Mokuoa (South Africa) – Spokesperson at Benchmarks Foundation
• Chisomo Phiri (Zambia) – Zambia Extractive Industries Project Officer at IANRA – Catholic Diocese Of Ndola

10:30 – 11:00 Tea Break

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Screening of DVD 10 Tactics to Turn Information into Activism – Bobby Soriano (Philippines) – Tactical Technology Collective

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Exhibition Citizen Journalists in Action – Kwanele Butana (South Africa) – Citizen Journalism Editor at Grocott’s Mail, Elvira van Noort (The Netherlands) – DCI Coordinator and Owner EvN Media Solutions and Grocott’s Mail Citizen Journalists – A Project Funded by the Knight Foundation

11:00 – 12:00 Panel Discussion: Mega Events – Whose Voices are Heard?
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• Moderator: Nathalie Hyde-Clark (South Africa) – Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Johannesburg
• Niren Tolsi (South Africa) – World Cup reporter at the Mail & Guardian
• Eduardo Ávila (Bolivia) – Regional Editor for Latin America at Global Voices Online, Acting Director of the Rising Voices outreach division and coordinator Global Voices’ coverage of the 2010 World Cup
• Kwanele Butana (South Africa)  – Citizen Journalism Editor at Grocott’s Mail

12:00 – 13:00 Panel Discussion: Citizen Media on Disasters & Climate Change
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• Moderator: Bobby Soriano (Philippines) – Tactical Technology Collective
• Carel Pedre (Haiti) – Award winning radio DJ
• Laura Walker Hudson (UK) – Product Manager FrontlineSMS
• Rory Williams (South Africa) – Civil Engineer and Blogger at Carbonsmart.com

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Nelson Mandela Dining Hall
- Kindly sponsored by HIVOS and ICANN -

13:30 -14:00 Planting of DCI 5.0 Anniversary Tree at the African Media Matrix

14:15 – 15:45 DCI WORKSHOPS

Registration open for all WJEC, Highway Africa and DCI delegates. Register at the Workshop Registration Desk in Eden Grove. You will receive all necessary details during registration.

Twitter as a Resource During Disasters
Peter Verweij (The Netherlands) – School of Journalism
Carel Pedre (Haiti) – Radio DJ

Cell Phone Video Reporting: the Ins and Outs
Alette Schoon (South Africa) – Lecturer TV Journalism at Rhodes University

Blogging Mega Events
Eduardo Ávila (Bolivia) – Regional Editor for Latin America at Global Voices Online, Acting Director of the Rising Voices outreach division and coordinator Global Voices’ coverage of the 2010 World Cup

Tactical Tactics’ Online Security
Bobby Soriano – (Philippines) – Tactical Technology Collective

Citizen Journalism in Action
Kwanele Butana (South Africa)  – Citizen Journalism Editor at Grocott’s Mail
Andile Nayika (South Africa) – Grocott’s Mail Staff Reporter

Use Your Cell Phone During Disasters
Brenda Burrell (Zimbabwe) – The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe and Freedom Fone
Laura Walker Hudson (UK) – Product Manager FrontlineSMS

16.00-18.00 WJEC and Highway Africa and DCI Joint Closing Plenary
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18.30-20.30 Feel South Africa experience -  SA Tourism Dinner & Market
Kaif Lawns, Bantu Steve Biko Student Union

20.30-22.30 MTN 2010 Football Viewing
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Welcome to DCI 5.0

The theme of our 5th DCI is ‘Africa’s Underdevelopment: Digital Citizens Talk Back’, and aims to closely look at how the development story is being told by digital citizens.

Citizen journalists have become central to exposing the ‘development of underdevelopment’ in many African countries, often giving a voice to communities that would otherwise not be heard and exposing deals that may be against their interests.

We focus on three themes touching on questions of Africa’s underdevelopment - 1) the exploitation of Africa’s rich natural resources, 2) responses to natural disasters and the potential impact of climate change, and 3) debates about the development benefits of mega events such as the 2010 World Cup – to understand the role of digital citizens in disseminating the voice of Africa’s citizens.

The DCI showcases successful projects as ‘best practice’, with the intention of ensuring that DCI participants can integrate these practices into their work. The DCI will also include case studies where online and mobile media have been used to disseminate crucial information about natural resources and disasters. The importance of citizen-based media in addressing climate change and mega events will also be explored.

The DCI aims to build bridges between mainstream media, digital civil society, citizens and successful initiatives. Join the discussion on www.dcindaba.com and follow us on Twitter via @DCIndaba with #DCI2010.

A warm welcome to all sponsors, speakers, delegates and digital citizens – enjoy the DCI experience.

From the DCI team,

Jane, Elvira and Hailey

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DCI 5.0 Concept Document

Concept document for the Digital Citizen Indaba 2010

Theme: Africa’s Underdevelopment: Digital Citizens Talk Back
Date: 7 July 2010
Venue: Eden Grove Complex, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

1.    Background and objectives
The main objective of the Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) is to bring together bloggers, podcasters, vodcasters, mobile media users, citizen journalists, new media practitioners, online industry experts and civil society representatives, as citizens who try to empower themselves using new media technologies.

The purpose of bringing them together is to enable this empowerment to take place through participation in debate about the state of digital media, information sharing and skills transfer using experts in the field. The DCI was established after it was recognised that – given its focus on new media and journalism – Highway Africa (HA) could do more to encourage new media take-up by non-journalists, thereby ensuring that citizens have a digital voice too.

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Tags: bloggers, citizen journalists, concept document, mobile media