By Reg Rumney – Director of the Centre for Economics Journalism at Rhodes University
Former radio journalist Jayne Morgan, now entrepreneur and podcast evangelist, ran a workshop on podcasting at the Africa Media Matrix this Sunday. After attending the workshop, which was illuminating, I asked her to talk a bit about the why and how of [...]
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By Simphiwe Kanityi – Rhodes University
DCI 4.0 workshop facilitator Marlon Parker, a social entrepreneur and web and mobile enthusiast who uses technology to empower communities, says “it is overdue that technology has been perceived just as ordinary other tools but that it can change and empower societies”. He faciliated the Digital Voices to Reconstruct Communities [...]
Tags: digital media, digital media activism, Marlon Parker, workshops
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The second edition of Open Source, the daily newspaper of the Highway Africa conference, is out! DCI speaker Maureen Agena, Information Officer at the Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) covers the front page. Some headlines inside the newspaper: “The Bigger Picture: Mapping our Medicine” (interview with DCI speaker Brett Davidson about the Stop Stockouts project), [...]
Tags: Brett Davidson, Cell-Life, Jayne Morgan, Marlon Parker, Maureen Agena, Mxit, Open Source Newspaper, Peter Benjamin, podcasting, Stop Stock-outs, workshops, WOUGNET
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The DCI workshop by Peter Benjamin from Cell-Life on Sunday afternoon gave its 60 odd participants a better idea of how to use Mobile Media for Social Change. We’ve put together a number of cell phone terms for you like USSD, WAP and Cellbooks, with Peter’s explanation.
Tags: Mobile for Mobilisation, Mobile for Social Change, Peter Benjamin, workshops
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