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