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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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 [...]
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