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African Film Industry Made Possible by: Piracy

African Film Industry Made Possible by: Piracy

Everybody I know downloads films and music illegally. The ‘Piracy is a crime’ campaign against movie piracy does not seem to work. March 31 HBO will broadcast the first episode of season three of Game of Thrones. I — with millions...
By Tomas Blansjaar on 03/17/13 Comments Off on African Film Industry Made Possible by: Piracy

The Yoza Project : Cellphones and ‘mlearning’ in South-Africa.

Storytelling is the conveying of narratives, an idea as old as human history itself. The origins of narration are difficult to grasp, and because this phenomenon plays such a prominent role in most of our lives, no one is...
By Elias van Hees on 04/29/11 Comments Off on The Yoza Project : Cellphones and ‘mlearning’ in South-Africa.

Africa Unsigned: the Professionalizing of User Input

In the past years the Internet has been flooded with user generated content. The theory on new media has subsequently been flooded with research into this phenomenon, that is commonly centered around the web 2.0 concept. This theorizing of...
By Erik van Bemmelen on 09/30/10 Comments Off on Africa Unsigned: the Professionalizing of User Input
Living In AppLand

Living In AppLand

Chris Anderson headlined his latest feature in Wired magazine: The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet. He maintains that with the ubiquitous iPhone comes app addiction; so while most of us spend the whole day on the internet...
By Natalie Dixon on 09/24/10 Comments Off on Living In AppLand

Tim Berners-Lee in Amsterdam: On the World Wide Web and Social Development in Africa

The World Wide Web and Social Development symposium at the VU University Amsterdam welcomed a variety of prominent speakers to discuss answers to the question: How can the Web contribute to the social and economic development in the world?...
By Chris Castiglione on 10/20/09 4

One Laptop Per Child; Is That Enough?

Isn’t it ironic that we’re trying to reduce the digital inequality and poverty with ICT, while it is the ICT that caused and augments this digital divide? We’re using technology to solve the problems it has caused…
By ellen sluis on 10/13/09 Comments Off on One Laptop Per Child; Is That Enough?
Social Networking with African Journalists

Social Networking with African Journalists

In the smallest room in the Balie, the Dick Scherpenzeel stichting, in cooperation with a handful of donors, held a debate on the opportunities of new media to link local African reporters with western media. Can Twitter, Facebook, linkedin,...
By Wouter Dijkstra on 09/18/09 2
Ekimeeza, the Peoples Parliament of Uganda on Radio One

Ekimeeza, the Peoples Parliament of Uganda on Radio One

I arrived around 2.30 at club Obligato, where the massively popular radio talkshow ‘Ekimeeza’ was about to start. I was welcomed by a series of middle aged men, who...
By Wouter Dijkstra on 04/21/09 Comments Off on Ekimeeza, the Peoples Parliament of Uganda on Radio One

Mobile Everywhere in Kampala

Kampala – April 6th, 2009 First impressions – I have just arrived in Uganda and can tell you that the presence of the mobile phone is felt and seen everywhere! Just some notes from my trip from the airport....
By Ben White on 04/06/09 Comments Off on Mobile Everywhere in Kampala

Can African reporters equipped with smart phones help improve accountability and transparency in development aid?

Tomorrow Africa Interactive and the International Resource Center for Water and Sanitation will compete for the WeMedia GameChangers award. Here is an outline of my presentation. All comments, thoughts and ideas are welcome ! Africa Interactive is working to...
By Ben White on 02/25/09 1
Gun vs. OLPC Computer

Gun vs. OLPC Computer

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has once again put itself into the eye of the storm. The organization recently released a commercial where we see a child polishing a shoe, a little girl standing on a street corner and...
By Ben White on 12/13/08 Comments Off on Gun vs. OLPC Computer

Social Networking Sites and the Missing Half

Dana Boyd describes “social networking sites” as “web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3)...
By Ben White on 10/04/08 2
Radio 2.0 – Using Innovative Technologies in the Effort to Connect the Unconnected

Radio 2.0 – Using Innovative Technologies in the Effort to Connect the Unconnected

Web 2.0 for a Global Society ? As defined by Wikipedia, the term Web 2.0 “encapsulates the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content.” Tim O’Reilly, often recognized as the first person to coin the...
By Ben White on 09/22/08 4
The mobile revolution in Africa, Hope or Hype?

The mobile revolution in Africa, Hope or Hype?

battery charging station in KenyaThe mobile phone is considered to be the first application available for a lot of Africans to have communication over large distances and thus can serve as...
By Rikus Wegman on 01/14/08 2

Mobile phone makes the sovereign man? Analyzing citizen journalism with Nietzsche in mind

Nietzsche’s criticism of the mass culture emerged along with the rise of popular literature, journalism, and the modern press. With the explosive rise of weblogs, mobile devices, and online video, traditional journalism has been contested and challenged by a...
By Qilan Zhao on 10/10/07 Comments Off on Mobile phone makes the sovereign man? Analyzing citizen journalism with Nietzsche in mind

BLOG-VIEW ON AFRICA 2.0

In this post I’m analyzing two blogs that get into new media in ‘the black continent’. The black continent… that’s how Erik Hersman called Africa in one of his personal most loved posts on his blog, the white African....
By Rikus Wegman on 09/24/07 1