07 July 2010, Grahamstown – South Africa
Open Source, the daily newspaper of the Highway Africa conference, today published its first edition. Of course the front page has an article about our Opening Party, held at the Rhodes University Great Hall last night. Other articles are titled “Giving a Voice to the Marginalised” (interview with Jane Duncan, DCI Coordinator), “Telling Their Own [...]
Sun, September 6 2009 » News » No Comments
Crowd-source translation is a new trend in the blogosphere where a group of volunteers translate blog posts into different languages. “Instead of waiting forever the way to go is to open up a platform where volunteers can translate. People need to take the initiatve”, says Elia Varela Serra (Maneno.org) during the DCI’s first panel [...]
Sat, September 5 2009 » News » No Comments
The DCI team searched all over the world and we found a number of speakers who are guaranteed to blow your mind! Our keynote speaker this year is Cameroon blogger Dibussi Tande who will inform us about the state of social justice and digital media in Africa, other confirmed speakers are Elia Varela Serra from Maneno, Global Voices editor Eduardo Ávila, Brett Davidson with Ndesanjo Macha (Stop Stock-outs project), Peter Benjamin on Mobile for Mobilisation and mobile for communities entrepreneur Marlon Parker.
