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Women in Black
When we went for dinner at the Settlers Monument on September 12, i was surprised to see the "Women in Black".
Mobiles become handheld computers
The world of technology moves really fast and Highway Africa gives journalists a chance to catch up. The conference has been a great
experience and an eye opener to ideas and experiences in the field of new media and ICTs.
On being a blogger
The worst part at the Highway Africa conference is explaining why you are here: "Eh, you see, I'm a blogger!". What the hell does that mean? it's not a job, it's not an identity, and it shouldn't be treated as something soooo exciting.
Paradigms are overrated
People use the Highway as a paradigm for the Source: TechSoup Glossary and GenderIT.org">internet
, but the African highway tends to ignore the pedestrians who must cross it.What do you think of Al Jazeera?
What interested me was to find out whether African journalists have some perception or opinion about Al Jazeera based on views expressed in western media. To my surprise...
Some african women journalists still hand-writing
Bimbola Ayesola is a woman journalist working at The Sun Publishing Ltd, a
Let the people speak! Days of hope and optimism
Tracey Naughton started off the session on community media at the Highway Africa conference with an old recording of the African National Congress’s underground radio station. As the speakers crackled with an Mkhonto weSizwe song, delegates sat in silence.
Where are the Women? At home, not being assertive.
I arrived with 3 other Source: APC website">Association for Progressive Communications
Africa Women project (AAW website">AAW) delegates on Monday morning to attend the Highway Africa conference in a raining Grahamstown, South Africa. I looked at the conference programme for Highway Africa and saw that only 11 female speakers were listed out of fifty.Why journalists are not writing about ICT
It emerged yesterday, that a lot of journalists are shying away from covering Source: APC">ICT
news and projects because they do not understand the complex terminology and jargon used by ICT project teams.Content generation is still a big challenge for African media
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Network members are attending the Highway Africa 2006 conference in Grahamstown. The conference started yesterday, September 11 2006, with a diverse group of journalists from the continent. This morning, we have participated in the plenary sessions that were quite interesting. During the sessions on the "government" in this glossary). As a general rule, "state" should not be capitalised.Source: Governance for sustainable human development: A UNDP policy document (Glossary of key terms) and Wikipedia">state
of media in Africa this morning, a speaker raised issues African media face, which I found particularly important.