19 September 2011 Cape Town – South Africa
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 [...]
Sat, August 21 2010 » Guest Bloggers » No Comments
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 [...]
Fri, August 20 2010 » Guest Bloggers » No Comments
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 [...]
Mon, June 28 2010 » DCI Documents, Programme » No Comments
