19 September 2011 Cape Town – South Africa
By: David Robert Lewis (DCI 6.0 Speaker) I am a live blogger, i.e. I usually post and work with my material online. Often I will edit an online piece in consultation with readers. The process is active. I don’t like preblogging a piece. I am therefore submitting some writing that I completed recently. There are [...]
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By: Lucky Lukhele (DCI 6.0 Speaker) The competitive strength of the human rights and democracy campaign in Swaziland is premised on the emerging globalisation tendencies i.e., mushrooming social networking, user friendly tools and the universal support for democracy in general. This competitive advantage has manifested itself in the existence of the Swaziland Solidarity Network (SSN) [...]
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By Julie Posetti (DCI 6.0 speaker) Social media has delivered new buzzwords – words like authenticity, engagement and community building – concepts that many content creators are still struggling with. In my DCI presentation, ‘Social Media: The Digital Citizen’s Toolkit for Online Community Building’, I’ll be exploring these ideas in an interactive session designed to [...]
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By Laura Hudson-Walker, project manager at FrontlineSMS A couple of weeks ago I had the great pleasure, and honour, of joining a wonderful panel, including Carel Pedre, Haiti DJ and activist, and Rory Williams of Carbonsmart.com, at the 5th Digital Citizens Indaba in Grahamstown, South Africa. The brief was to talk about digital communication in [...]
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By Alette Schoon, TV journalism lecturer at Rhodes University If your phone has a video camera, you are ready to become a video journalist. It’s really not that difficult. The most important first step, is to decide what to shoot. You need to consider the media audience. On our continent bandwidth is scarce, so think [...]
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