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HIGHWAY AFRICA CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

RHODES UNIVERSITY, GRAHAMSTOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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Overview and Background 2Welcoming addresses 4

SABC Highway Africa Awards 9Highway Africa Conference Map 101-12 September Parallel Events 11

HA Conference Sunday to Wednesday Overview 12Daily Luncheons 18

Evening Events 19Speaker profiles 20Book Launches 26

Recommended Reading 28Film Screening 29

Timbuktu Manuscripts 30Post-Graduate Studies at Rhodes 32

Parallel events 33Workshops 34

Events in detail 36DIGITAL CITIZEN INDABA (DCI) 42

Welcoming address 43Speaker profiles 44

Opening reception details 46DCI Events Overview 47

DCI Events in detail 49Travel information 50Finding your way 56Thank you page 58

Glossary of terms 59Our sponsors 60

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Highway Africa is a partnership between Rhodes University (School of Journalism and Media Studies) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), with the support of several partners, development agencies and sponsors. For ten years the Highway Africa conference has been at the centre of Africa’s debates on journalism and new media. The conference has over the years become the largest annual gathering of African journalists in the world (701 in 2007). In the last four years Highway Africa has evolved into a multi-pronged programme with the following components:

• Research: mapping the terrain of the challenges of the interface of technology, journalism and the media

• Education and Training: responding to the gaps identified in the research this project makes a practical intervention by re-skilling, upskilling, education and training journalists.

• News Agency: a niche news agency with a network of correspondents across the continent it offers weekly news digest on ICT developments in Africa

• Conference: the flagship of the programme, it is the forum for critical reflection on journalism, media and technology and a celebration of Africa. 2. 2008 Theme: Citizen Journalism, Journalism for Citizens

Over the past few years the world has witnessed a surge in the use of new media - especially those based on the World Wide Web - by ordinary users across the globe. Parallel to this upsurge has been the development of the semantic web (Web 2.0, Web 3.0). The emergence of social networking websites such as MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and ubiqui-tous use of instant messaging technologies such as Skype, Yahoo and MSN has marked the shift in the utility of the

internet. Time magazine’s 2006 decision to name “You” as its person of the year at once acknowledged and publicized the prevalence and utility of content generated by ordinary internet users.

Mobile phone technology and its dramatic penetration in Af-rica and the developing world opens myriad possibilities for empowering the ordinary citizen to access and to generate content. Through “MXit” style systems, there is now enor-mous use of instant messaging on cellphones, raising new challenges for dissemination and interaction with journalistic content

Across the globe examples exist of news sites whose content is generated by ordinary citizens. South Korea may have the best examples but the phenomenon is to be found in as diverse places such as South Africa and the Philippines. The structure and use of such content is frequently different from that of the mainstream media, although there can be similarities between both.

Some media houses have encouraged their readers/audienc-es to contribute to major stories by sending in their photo-graphs, video and audio clips, and in doing so make ordinary citizens part of the news production process. Other news media organizations have created options for audiences to subscribe to news alerts to their mobile phones.

Citizenship has often been counterposed with consumership. In much of Africa, there has also been the identity category of subjects added to the mix - where people are neither citizens with rights, nor consumers with some power, but dispossessed and often stateless subjects of tyranny. The advent of citizen journalism means that people can not only consume journalism, but also produce it. They now have, in real terms, not only the rights of access to information produced by journalism, but the right to free expression in a practical form, where they can generate on and comment on journalism. With new media, this means that subjects have new possibilities to build these freedoms.

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The challenges in the production of media and its distribu-tion impinge on the quality of journalism and the profession-alism of journalists. The 2008 conference will seek to address a number of questions related to the goals of journalism in society and how the ordinary citizen fits within those goals as a consumer and producer.

• What is Citizen Journalism? • How does journalism serve citizens?• What quality control exists in citizen journalism?• What technology is driving citizen journalism?• What are the African experiences of Citizen Journalism?• How should ‘traditional’ media respond to citizen

journ-alism?• What is the ‘business model’ of citizen journalism?• How is citizen journalism implicated in the democracy

project?• What should be the technical and journalistic skills of

citizen journalists?• What are the gender dynamics in citizen journalism?• What are the ethical issues arising from citizen

journalism?• Is there a case for ‘converged journalism’ and

multi-skilling of journalists in Africa?• What is the role of free software and open source in

supporting Africans to have a voice in cyberspace?

• Is mobile technology the future of journalism?

3. Venue & Participants

Highway Africa takes place in Grahamstown, close to the South African city of Port Elizabeth. The venue is the Rhodes University campus which provides access to state-of-the-art facilities. These include the “intelligent” building called the “Africa Media Matrix” which houses the School of Journalism and Media Studies. There is a convergent computer lab for skills training, and fully equipped seminar rooms. Accommodation ranges from high quality University Resi-dence rooms through to B&Bs, hotels and guest houses.

4. Parallel and Linked Events

• Highway Africa – SABC New Media Awards ceremony – live televised event • Digital Citizen Indaba 3.0 - Technology for the Digital Citizen • Training programmes: Digital Journalism • Meetings of SA National Editors Forum, Southern African National Editors Forum, The African Editors Forum, community radio representatives • Free and Open Source Software and African Media: training workshop programme on use of FOSS in the newsroom • Book launches • Exhibitions

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Over the years, Highway Africa Conference has become a flagship event of our University. The Pan-African nature of the conference speaks to a key aspiration of Rhodes University – that is to be an outstanding African univer-sity which educates and prepares the next generation of leadership on the continent.

This reconnection and deepening of links with the rest of the continent is the logical extension of South Africa’s rejoining of the family of nations. Over the past few years, Rhodes University has as part of our internationalisation pro-gramme expanded its links with other institutions of higher learning on the continent and will continue to do in coming years.

“Citizen Journalism, Journalism for Citizens”, this year’s theme speaks to the larger theme of citizenship and belonging. For us as Africans how media can be a vital force in the democratisation and intellectual, cultural, economic and social development of our societies remains a pivotal issue.

It is my hope that over the three days of your deliberations you will be able to interrogate and also generate creative ideas and innovative strategies on how information and communication technologies can develop journalism and the media to enhance social justice, democracy and development on the African continent.

Once again, a warm welcome to Rhodes University.

DR SALEEM BADATVICE CHANCELLOR, RHODES UNIVERSITY

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It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Highway Africa Confer-ence 2008. The Department of Communications has been a key partner of the Highway Africa Conference for the last nine years. That we should partner with a Pan-African conference which seeks to put journalism and the media at the heart of Information Society debates, is not a coincidence. We believe that journalists are key stakeholders in building an inclusive Information Society because they have to inform and educate our people on the ICT develop-ments unfolding on the continent, while at the same time emphasising the benefits of ICTs.

I am glad that this conference takes place when we have just approved our policy on enacted legislation on broadcasting digital migration. This latest development is a fulfilment of what the ITU has mandated member states of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, that is, to migrate to digital broadcast platforms by 2015. You journalists will have to play a key role, within South Africa and across the continent, in informing and educating our people on these momentous technological developments and how they will improve their lives. That education may range from information on what set-top boxes are to the more complex issues of the delivery of government services and content via the new broadcasting platforms.

As we head for the 2010 FIFA World Football Cup, I am convinced that Africa will deliver the best tournament ever, and part of that success will be as a result of the technology infrastructure we are putting in place now.

Beyond 2010, the Department of Communications will continue to play its part in the context of the African Renaissance and we shall look to you, the African journalists, to keep telling the African ICT story.

I wish you a successful and fruitful conference.

MS LYNDALL SHOPE-MAFOLEDIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

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We are twelve years old this September! And this year also signals the sixth year of the partnership between Rhodes journalism and the SABC in co-hosting Highway Africa. Together, our two institutions have ensured that this mega-event has grown in stature and value. Over the period, we have welcomed increased support from the Department of Communications, MTN, ABSA, Telkom, MultiChoice and many foundations. This is what makes possible the world’s biggest gathering of journalists – and you are here at it! The buzz also attracts a host of other associations who stage parallel events alongside. What we have therefore is a huge network at this event – and a rich generator of what is called “social capital”. That phrase means that the more that every stakeholder puts in, the more everyone gets out. So, be sure to invest in meeting as many others as possible while you are here, share the lessons of your experience and training, and inject your views into the de-bates. In short, welcome to the pan-African Republic of Highway Africa where everyone is a fully-fledged citizen.

PROF GUY BERGERHEAD OF THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MEDIA STUDIES

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Citizen Journalism, Journalism for Citizens. Ordinary people doing journalism. Journalism actually serving its citizens.

That is the crux of the debates and discussions at Highway Africa 2008. Our conference is about how information and communication technology can be deployed in the African development and democracy project (think internet, think mobile). As media professionals we care deeply about the direction our continent moves in and that is why we cling to our classical liberal role of informing, educating and speaking truth to power.

But to do quality journalism in a rapidly changing world we need the tools that enable us to respond with speed and precision. Digital technologies give us an opportunity to do just that – to access a virtual library at the touch of a button, to send a story in the wink of an eye…

Let’s have a great time then, learning and sharing, and above all, let’s have fun doing it.

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I would like to congratulate each and every one of you for choosing to be in the right place at the right time. Welcome to Highway Africa 2008, the conti-nent’s largest gathering of jourmalists and media professionals.

Highway Africa has become the established forum for debating the issues and challenges faced by the continent’s media practitioners.

In this melting pot, young people with a fresh outlook will be able to test out their ideas, while the older more seasoned industry hands will offer their insight, context and wisdom. It is this cross fertilisation of ideas, and the shar-ing of experiences from across the African continent in speeches, debates and one on one exchanges that will, I am sure, give you a rich and rewarding time here in Grahamstown.

So look, listen, and digest, each one of us should by the end of the confer-ence have learned something new, made at least one new contact or decided on a new or different direction towards achieving our goals.

But try and not forget there is also a full programme of social activities and events.

Enjoy it all and once again, welcome to the great African Highway to the future.

I look forward to meeting you all during the three days of the conference.

JOEL KIBAZO, CHAIR, HIGHWAY AFRICA ADVISORY COMMITTEE

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The Highway Africa Digital Journalism Awards have become one of the major highlights of recognition, reward and celebration for creativity in using new technologies to advance the Information Revolution in Africa. The wide range of organisations and individuals that have won from journalists and students, NGOs and profit making organizations represent the range of Africans that have actively taken up new technologies and adapted them to our context. These individuals and organizations have made informa-tion and communication interventions that are critical to genuine free flow of information and participa-tory communication. They have also increased the amount and quality of information produced by Afri-cans from their own perspectives and circulated globally. They have also proved that new technologies are not context specific and can be used and extended in different contexts to make a difference in the lives of the people. The awards have also inspired Africans to actively innovate and experiment and each year we have seen both an increase in the number of entries and better entries. When the history of new media technologies is written the awards will have a central place as a process and event that played the role of catalyst and promoter of innovation. This year, at the 12th anniversary of Highway Africa, the en-tries reflect yet more qualitative improvement and the increasing levels of sophisticated usage by Africans.

2008 saBc - highway afRica Digital JoURnalisM awaRDsThese awards celebrate the creative, innovative and appropriate use of New Media and ICTs in journalism, and are the premier award recog-nising excellence in New Media in Africa.A unique recognition in the continent, the Highway Africa Digital Journalism Awards will be presented at the conference for the 8th year running. Criteria for the Highway Africa Digital Journalism AwardsThe awards are given annually at the Highway Africa Conference to recognise and promote the creative, innovative and appropriate use of new media technology in Africa. Judges are looking for innovative applications of New Media in African journalism and the media.Awards are given in three categories: 1) Individual/Student, 2) Non-profit and 3) Corporate.Individual and Non-profit category: Recognition will be given to communications which find innovative ways to overcome the limitations of the existing African infrastructure. Corporate category: Judges will be looking for creative adaptation of global technologies in an African media context. Other broad criteria: (which apply to both categories), is the use of new media to benefit press freedom in Africa and encourage social empowerment in African communities. Ultimately the awards aim to highlight innovations that result in African media benefiting from new ideas and developments in communications technology.

SITHEMBILE MOKAEANECONVENOR - HIGHWAY AFRICA DIGITAL JOURNALISM AWARDS.

THE 8TH SABC-HIGHWAY AFRICA DIGITAL JOURNALISM AWARDS WILL BE BROADCAST LIVE ON SABC AFRICA ON TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER AT 19H00

The Ceremony takes place in the Guy Butler Auditorium, Settlers Monument, Grahamstown, South Africa

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NIZA Advanced Digital Journalism Workshop 01–10 September 2008

KAS Digital Journalism Workshop04 –10 September 2008

DoC Training WorkshopUnderstanding and Writing on the Business of Telecoms11–12 September 2008

Digital Citizen Indaba

Sun 7–9 September 2008Eden Grove Complex

Highway Africa Conference

Eden Grove Complex08–10 September 2008 08h30 onwards daily

TV style debates, Plenary sessionsRoundtable Discussions, Q and A

Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)Sat 06 September 2008

The African Editors’ Forum (TAEF) – Council MeetingSat 06 September 2008

South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) Council Meeting Sun 07 September 2008

AFRMD Launch EventSun 07–08 September

SABC-HA Awards Ceremony

Tues 09 September 2008 1820 Settlers Monument

Social events

DCI Opening ReceptionSaturday 06 September

Telkom DinnerSANEF, TAEF, GFMD & ARFMD DinnerSaturday 06 September

MTN Opening Reception Opening CocktailsSunday 07 September

ABSA Africa Night DinnerMonday 08 September

SABC-HA Awards BroadcastTuesday 09 September

Conference Closing ReceptionWednesday 10 SeptemberAfrica Media Matrix

Exhibitions

Conference ExhibitionsICT Product Launches

06–10 September 2008Eden Grove Complex

Book Launches

8–9 September2 Book Launches

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1-10 sePtniZa-ha tRaining woRKshoP advanced Digital Journalism• Cecil Mutambanengwe (Coordinator)• Prof Peter Verweij (Trainer)

4-10 sePtKas tRaining woRKshoP Digital Journalism workshop• Cecil Mutambanengwe (Coordinator)• Jude Mathurine

7 sePtfilM scReening: one water - a film by sanjeev chatterjee• Presented by Joe Treaster

7-9 sePtBloggers inDaBaDigital citizen indaba(supported by niZa and osisa)• Elvira van Noort (Coordinator)

6 sePtthe afRican eDitoRs’ foRUM (taef) coUncil Meeting• Liz Barratt (Coordinator)

6 sePtgloBal foRUM foR MeDia DeVeloPMent (gfMD)• Bettina Peters (Coordinator)

6 sePtsanef, taef, gfMD anD aRfMD DinneR (hosted by telkom)• By invitation only

7 sePtafRican Regional foRUM foR MeDia DeVeloPMent (aRfMD) laUnch eVent• Jeannette Minnie (Coordinator)

7 sePtsanef & taef DinneR (hosted by Multichoice)• By invitation only

7 sePtfilM scReening: one wateR• Presented by Joe Treaster

8 sePtofficial oPening - welcome address• Dr Saleem Badat VC (Rhodes)• Prof Guy Berger (Rhodes University) • Phil Molefe (SABC)• Diana Senghor (PIWA, Senegal)• Thami Msimango (Telkom)• Jovial Rantao (SANEF) • Cheriff Sy (TAEF)

11-12 sePthana JoURnalist tRainingDoc training workshop: Understanding and writing on the Business of telecoms• Reg Rumney and Robert Brand (Coordinators)

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09h00-17h30Digital citiZen inDaBa eden grove Blue• Elvira van Noort (Coordinator)

18h30oPening RecePtion highway afRicasponsored by Mtn eden grove Blue• Prof Guy Berger (Welcome Address)• Mayor Phumelelo Kate (Mayor of Grahamstown)• Pearl Majola (MTN)

19h30sanef & taef DinneR Bella VitaBy invitation only

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08h30oPening (eden grove Red)welcome addresses by:• Prof Guy Berger (Rhodes University)• Dr Saleem Badat (Vice-Chancellor, Rhodes University)• Phil Molefe (SABC)• Diana Senghor (PIWA, Senegal)• Thami Msimango (Telkom)• Jovial Rantao (SANEF) • Cheriff Sy (TAEF)

09h30PlenaRy (eden grove Red)technology for the Digital citizenAdam Clayton Powell lll,Vice-Provost, University of Southern California

10h00PlenaRy (eden grove Red)citizen Media: what is it? what does it mean? where is it going?• Chair: Prof Tawana Kupe• Dan Gillmor• Georgia Popplewell• Vincent Maher

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11h30Keynote aDDRess (eden grove Red)Digital africa: the digital possibilities for the continentDeputy Minister Radhakrishna Roy Padayachie (Department of Communications, South Africa)

12h00Panel DiscUssion (eden grove Red)Journalism in the service of the citizen: what has changed?• Chair: Mapule Mbhalati• Robert Kabushenga• Rosemary Orkale-Okello• Amina Frense• Jovial Rantao

13h15lUnch BReaKKindly sponsored by telkom (nelson Mandela Dining hall)

14h30acaDeMic session (eden grove Blue)1. citizen journalism and civic education: exploring the theoretical and practical linkages2. citizen journalism as political praxis: the case of Zimbabwe 3. if all citizens can be journalists, who isn’t a journalist? exploring the philosophical linkage between citizenship and journalism • Chair: Prof Fackson Banda• Dr George Lugalambi (Makerere)• Dr Dumisani Moyo (Wits)• Dr Abiodun Salawu• Roland Adams• Dr Wallace Chuma

14h30RoUnDtaBle (eden grove Red)Media funding and sustainability• Chair: Jeanette Minnie• Lumko Mtimde• Bettina Peters• Sadler Kamudyariwa• Leon Morse

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19h00 DinneR absa africa night Dinnergreat hall, Rhodes Universitytheme: africa’s timeHost: Happy Ntshingila (Absa Executive Director)

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11h00-13h00MDDa sKills woRKshoP (Union lab)Using campcasterDouglas Arallenes

14h30 Mtn sKills woRKshoP (guthrie lab) Using google tools to track stories Izak Minnaar

14h30 osiwa sKills woRKshoP (Union lab) Using scribus in Design (french language only) Nahmsath Yabouri

14h30osisa sKills woRKshoP (seminar Room 2 eden grove) editing Made easy Joe Treaster and Jovial Rantao

14h30 osisa sKills woRKshoP (eden grove/seminar Room 3) investigative Journalism and internet Resources Stephen Miller

14h30–16h00 Dci woRKshoP 1 (fountain lab ) how to create a podcast and attract an audience Jayne Morgan

16h30–18h00 Dci woRKshoP 2 (fountain lab) how to set up and maintain a micro blog Marlon Parker

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08h30 PResentation (eden grove Red) in the information age Do Physical spaces for Knowledge Matter? Gwenda Thomas

09h00 Panel DiscUssion (eden grove Blue)capacitating Media and citizens in africa: challenges and responses• Chair: Lumko Mtimde• Bettina Peters (GFMD)• Jeanette Minnie (ARFMD)• Sadler Kamudyariwa (SAMDEF)• Noma Rangana (HIVOS)• Bob van Winden (BW Support)

09h00PlenaRy (eden grove Red )Digital Media Business Models: the search for the holy grail (including discussion on mobile technology and role in journalism and the media)• Chair: Judi Nwokedi• Prof Guy Berger• Matthew Buckland • Arthur Goldstuck• Steven Lang• Nic Haralambous

10h00 liVe DeBate (eden grove Red)2010 state of Readiness: a special saBc PresentationSABC

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11h30 PlenaRy (eden grove Red )citizens’ Media and new technologies: the french experience • Chair: Diana Senghor• John Maguire• Philippe Couve• Jean Dacie• Pierre Haski

12h30 PResentation (eden grove Red) television and the citizen-consumer: what’s coming next? Phil Nicholson

13h00 lUnch BReaK nelson Mandela Dining hall

14h30 PResentation (eden grove Red) 2010 fifa world football cup (sponsored by Mtn) Dr Nikolaus Eberl

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RoUnDtaBle DiscUssion (eden grove seminar Room 3)Voices of the People: Media initiatives to give People Real Voices • Charlotte Bauer (African Voices)• Sami Ben Gharbia (Global Voices)• Sipho January/ Prof Guy Berger • Indaba Ziyafika• Eduardo Ávila (Voices Bolivianas)

14h30 netwoRKing (eden grove Blue) african-european-north american Universities Meeting Chair: Adam Clayton Powell III

14h30 RoUnDtaBle DiscUssion (eden grove seminar Room 2) Digital Migration: where are we? where are going? • DoC / • Telkom / • MTN / • CIPACO / • OSIWA

16h30 BooK laUnch (Doc stand) A Living Mirror: The Life of Deyda Hydara by Aloa Ahmed Alota and Demba Ali Jawo

17h15 BooK laUnch (Doc stand) We the Media by Dan Gillmor (Courtesy of DoC & OSISA)

18h30awaRDs ceReMony (1820 settlers Monument) saBc-highway africa Digital Journalism awards ceremony / saBc gala Dinner Live Broadcast - SABC International Second Broadcast - SABC 2

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09h00–11h30 MDDa tRaining woRKshoP (community media) (Union lab) audacity Master class for community Media Douglas Arallenes and Jayne Morgan

14h30 osiwa sKills woRKshoP (Union lab) Using scribus in Design (french language) - Repeat Nahmsath Yabouri

14h30–16h00 Dci tRaining woRKshoP 3 (fountain lab)how to take your blog to the next level Ramon Thomas

16h30–18h00 Dci tRaining woRKshoP 4 (fountain lab) how to take your blog to the next level Ramon Thomas

14h30 tRaining woRKshoP (guthrie lab) Using google tools to track stories Izak Minnaar

14h30 laUnch anD tRaining woRKshoP (st Peters 34) Manual for investigative Journalism Frank Windeck

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08h30 Q & a with highway africa Digital Journalism award winners (eden grove Red)

09h00 PResentation (eden grove Red) Developing curricula for citizen Journalism training Programmes Dan Gillmor

10h30 tea BReaK

11h00-12h30 Panel DiscUssion (eden grove Red)Media and young People: are we where the youth are at? •Chair: Moagisi Letlhaku (FJP)•Shireen Badat (Upstart)•Dr Snuki Zikalala (SABC)•Duncan Guy (SAPA)

12h30 awaRDing of ceRtificates to niZa advanced Digital Journalism course Participants (eden grove Red) • Prof Guy Berger• Prof Peter Verweij

12h45 closing stateMents (eden grove Red) • Prof Fackson Banda• Chris Kabwato

13h00lUnch (nelson Mandela Dining hall) Lunch sponsored by Rhodes University

14h00 laUnch (aMM tV studios)launch of the saBc news centre at the Rhodes school of Journalism• Dr Snuki Zikalala• Paul Hills

14h30 Meeting of community Media Professionals (Eden Grove Red)

• Visit to grocott’s Mail to learn at first hand the convergence project the newspaper has undertaken

• Meeting of Journalism educators and trainers & editors(Africa Media Matrix, Room 202)

19h00 closing RecePtion(Africa Media Matrix)

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09h00-12h30 MDDa coMMUnity MeDia woRKshoP (Union lab) Podcasting Douglas Arallenes and Jayne Morgan

11h00-12h30 Doc tRaining woRKshoP (eden grove Blue) Doing Quality Journalism Using icts Prof Peter Verweij and Ken Lohento

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Sunday 7 September13h30Nelson Mandela Dining HallHosted by NiZA

Monday 8 September13h00Nelson Mandela Dining HallHosted by Telkom

Tuesday 9 September13h00Nelson Mandela Dining HallHosted by Highway Africa

Wednesday 10 September13h00Nelson Mandela Dining Hall Hosted by Rhodes University

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Saturday 6 September19h00Rat & ParrotDigital Citizen Indaba Opening ReceptionHosted by NiZA

Saturday 6 September19h00Oppidan Dining RoomSANEF, TAEF, GFMD & ARFMD DinnerHosted by Telkom

Sunday 7 September18h30Great Hall, Rhodes UniversityOpening ReceptionHosted by MTN

Sunday 7 September19h00Bella VitaSANEF & TAEF DinnerHosted by MultiChoice

Monday 8 September19h00Great Hall, Rhodes UniversityAbsa Africa NightHosted by Absa

Tuesday 9 September18h301820 Settlers MonumentSABC Gala Awards CeremonyHosted by SABC

Wednesday 10 September19h00AMM and Nelson Mandela Dining HallClosing Reception

Made possible through our kind sponsors

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S Dan GillmorDan Gillmor is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State Univer-sity’s Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communi-cation. The project aims to help students appreciate the start-up culture of risk-taking, and to foster new media products and services. Dan is also director of the Cen-ter for Citizen Media, a project to enhance and expand grassroots media and its reach.

Diane SenghorDiane Senghor is the Director of the Panos Institute of West Africa, an independent international institution, and a member of the Panos Institute Network, based in Dakar. Previously, she was the founder and director of the West Africa Program of the Panos Institute in Paris. She has also been Editor-in-Chief of West African magazines, such as Family and Development, and Living in Another Way. Diana Senghor holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Paris.

Phil MolefePhil has been a journalist for more than 25 years, work-ing for several South African publications, including SASPU National, Weekly Mail and The Star. He is also a fellow of the respected Thompson Foundation in the United Kingdom. He has held several senior editorial positions in the SABC, including Head of Television News and Head: SABC Africa. He is currently the General Manager of International Affairs.

Joel KibazoJoel Kibazo, is a journalist, media and public affairs consultant, having worked as a journalist at The Finan-cial Times and BBC. He was Director of Communica-tions and Public Affairs, and spokesperson of the Commonwealth Secretariat until December 2006. Joel is on the judging panel for the CNN Africa Journalist of the Year Award and has been involved in this project for over 10 years.

Radhakrishna Padayachie (Roy)Roy Padayachie has been the Deputy Minister of Communications since April 2004. Deputy Minister Padayachie holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from the University of Durban-Westville, with Chemistry and Microbiology as majors, and a Masters of Science (MSc) degree in Agricultural Economics from the Uni-versity of London, majoring in Business Management and Marketing.

Thami MsimangoThami Msimango is Chief of Global Operations and Subsidiaries. He was until last year Executive Director Converged Operations at Vodacom. His forte is enter-prise management.

Snuki ZikalalaDr Zikalala has worked as journalist since 1980, when he joined Radio Sofia and Troud Newspaper in Bulgaria while in exile. Dr Zikalala is currently the Group Executive of the SABC News & Current Affairs Division, taking charge of Africa’s largest news organisation, with over 1 300 staff members. SABC News provides content for three terrestrial television stations, one satellite channel, 19 radio stations and a variety of new media channels.

Robert KabushengaMr. Kabushenga joined The New Vision as CEO on January 1 2007. Prior to that, he worked as a Legal and Administration Officer of the Monitor Publications Ltd.He later joined The New Vision where he first worked as Legal Officer. Robert also worked as Executive Director of the Uganda Media Center. Robert is a holder of a Bachelor of Laws degree from Makerere University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Center, Kampala.

Fackson BandaFackson Banda holds the SAB Ltd Chair in Media and Democracy as well as the pan-African UNESCO Chair in Communication within the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University. He worked as executive director of the Panos Institute Southern Africa, Zambia. Before Joining Panos, Fackson was a practis-ing broadcast journalist. His teaching areas include focusing on media policy and institutions as well as mass media theory and society.

Adam Clayton Powell IIIAdam Clayton Powell III is Vice Provost for Globalization at the University of Southern California. Powell is widely published, and recently published a book entitled “Reinventing Local News: Connecting with Communities Using New Technologies.” He also contributed to “America’s Dialogue with the World” and has written for a number of publications, including The New York Times, Wired Magazine, and Online Journal-ism Review.20

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Tawana KupeProfessor Tawana Kupe is Head of the School of Litera-ture, Languages and Media Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. He teaches at undergraduate and post-graduate level, and supervises at MA and PhD level.

Ben AkohBen Akoh is the Information and Communication Technology and Media Program Manager at the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), one of George Soros’ many global foundations working in fifty six countries. Ben’s ICT work covers 18 countries in West Africa in areas of advocacy on ICT policy develop-ment, access, infrastructure and connectivity, capacity building for media and civil society on use of ICTs for sustainability, free and open source, and eGovernance.

Eugenie R. AWDr Aw is a Professor at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegal). She holds a PhD in Communication and Development from University of Quebec. She has published widely on gender, communication and development. Dr. Aw has also held various positions with Unifem West Africa, Centre for Information Sciences and Technologies.

Charlotte Bauer Charlotte Bauer is an Associate Editor at the Mail & Guardian with responsibility for features, columns and Voices of Africa. Voices of Africa is the M&G’s premium project to scout, commission and publish an eclectic range of journalism from across the continent to reflect “how we live in Africa, not how we die.” Previously this award winning journalist and editor was director of Heritage Projects at the Sunday Tiimes.

Georgia Popplewell Georgia Popplewell is a media producer, journalist, editor and blogger from Trinidad and Tobago. She has worked in independent television in the Caribbean since 1989 and has written extensively on culture, music, film and sport. In 2005, she started Caribbean Free Radio, the Caribbean’s first podcast. Popplewell is Managing Director of Global Voices, an international citizen media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Joseph Treaster Joseph B. Treaster is the Knight Chair for Cross Cultural Communication at the Knight Center for International Media and the School of Communication at the Univer-sity of Miami. He reported for The New York Times for over 30 years and continues to write for the newspaper. Joseph holds a Bachelor’s degree from Miami, and a Master of Science degree from Columbia.

Vincent MaherVincent John Maher is the portfolio manager for social media at Vodacom, a South African mobile telecom-munications operator. Previously he was the strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online and the founder of the political blog Thought Leader and blog aggregator Amatomu.com. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Rhodes University and is currently working on projects that combine location-aware social networks with GIS and mapping data.

Jovial RantaoJovial Rantao is the editor of The Sunday Independent and deputy editor of The Star. He is the present chair-man of the South African National Editors’ Forum.Rantao has spent much of his journalistic career at The Star, where he has held the posts of content and executive editor, news editor, political editor and political correspondent. He has co-authored a book called Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki with Adrian Hadland, the former political editor of the Cape Argus.

Arthur GoldstuckArthur is an award-winning writer, analyst and commen-tator on Internet, mobile and business and consumer technologies. He heads the World Wide Worx research organisation, leading groundbreaking research into how change is affecting businesses large and small. Arthur is author of 15 books, including South Africa’s best-selling IT book yet, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Internet”, and the current guide to mobile technology, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Going Mobile”.

Lumko Caesario MtimdeLumko Caesario Mtimde is a graduate of the University of the Western Cape and the University of South Africa where he completed a BSc. degree in Physiology and Biochemistry, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Telecom-munications and Information Policy respectively. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA). He is also one of the High Level Panel of Advisors of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. 21

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Douglas Arellanes Douglas Arellanes works with the Media Development Loan Fund’s Center for Advanced Media - Prague on its Campware Initiative, which creates free and open source tools in support of independent media organiza-tions in the developing world. Campware’s motto is “Free software for free media.”

Wallace ChumaDr Wallace Chuma teaches in the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town. A former journalist and editor in Zimbabwe, he also spent time on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (USA) as an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow. Chuma holds a PhD (Journalism & Media Studies) from the University of the Witwatersrand, and degrees in English and Communication from the University of Zimbabwe.

Duncan GuyDuncan Guy is the founder and editor of Sapa’s e-mail newspaper Learn the News, aimed at primary school learners. He trained at the now-defunct Argus Newspa-per Company Cadet Course in 1984 and has worked for the Star, the Mercury, Out There magazine and has been was editor of Transport World Africa magazine. He is also the author of the book “The Very Best of Johannesburg and Surrounds”, published by Struik.

Stephen C. MillerStephen C. Miller is an editor, reporter and technology consultant. He was formally assistant to the Technol-ogy Editor at The New York Times. He still writes on computers and consumer electronics for the paper and is a contributor to Tech Talk, the Times on the Web’s podcast. He is completing his book, While Our Backs Were Turned: How Computers Changed Journalism. He speaks frequently on how technology is affecting people’s lives.

Noma RanganaNoma Rangana, who holds a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science, has a background in media, ICTs and development and has been working in this sector for 10 years. She was a member of SA Students Press Union (SASPU) and has worked for the Open Society Foundation’s Media and ICTs Programme for a number of years. She is currently working for Hivos South Africa’s Citizen Journalism in Africa programme.

Tony NamateTony Namate is Zimbabwe’s leading political cartoonist, and has been a full time cartoonist since 1988. Namate has been doing freelance cartoons since the closure of the Daily News in 2003 and has done cartoons for the Guardian (UK) and the Baltimore Sun (USA). In 2004 he was awarded the CRN Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award, at the annual convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, in Lexington, Kentucky.

Nahmsath YabouriNahmsath Yabouri is a staff member at Centre Infor-matique et de Calcul at the University of Lome. He is a technologist with five years in software development, including database driven website and web content management tools.

Cheriff SyMr Cheriff Moumina SY is journalist, analyst, trainer in journalism of investigation and director of Publication of the newspaper Bendré to the Burkina Faso. Activist of the press freedom and media development, It is the President of the International Festival of Freedom of Expression and Press of Ouagagadougou and Vice President of The African Editors Forum (TAEF).

Jeanette Minnie Jeanette Minnie is an International Freedom of Expres-sion and Media Consultant, also known by the name of her consultancy service - Zambezi FoX. She was a member of the UN Economic Commission for Africa’s Task Force in 2006/7 that guided its African continental inquiry into the Strengthening of the Media in Africa (STREAM). Minnie is a member of the Steering Commit-tee of the Global Forum for Media Development.

Mapule Thelma MbhalatiMapule Mbhalati started her broadcasting career in 1975 when she joined Radio Tsonga as a Programme Compiler in October of 1975, after she had been a Freelance Announcer/Producer the station. She was the first woman to be appointed to the station on perma-nent basis. In 2003 she was appointed to the position of Station Manager at SAfm where she served before being appointed to her current position at the SABC as Head: Radio News & Current Affairs in July 2006.

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Abiodun SalawuAbiodun Salawu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Media Studies, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo State, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Abiodun has been widely published and written on various topics including ICTs and Development.

Bettina PetersBettina Peters is Director of the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), a network of some 400 media assistance organisations from around the globe. Before joining GFMD in July 2007, Bettina worked as director of programmes at the European Journalism Centre, and was in charge of EJC’s programme of media support and journalism training, in particular in the Middle East/ North Africa and in Eastern Europe.

Guy Berger Guy is head of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He is an active blogger and a co-founder of the Highway Africa conference, which is in its 12th year. He has a PhD from Rhodes and is active in the SA National Editors Forum.

Bob van WindenDutch photographer and publicist; academically formed in social sciences and management; former pro-gramme director of NiZA. Published on communication, media and development, using ‘public sphere’ theory in practice. Worked extensively in Latin America, West- and Southern Africa Actually he is leading BWsupport (www.bwsupport.nl) a small company for independent advice and evaluation in International Cooperation.

Sadler KamudyariwaSadler has vast experience spanning over 19 years in various capacities and industries ranging from Banking, Manufacturing, Venture Capital and Service Sector. As a Chartered Secretary and strong accounting back-ground Sadler’s main areas of expertise are Finance, Investments & Corporate Governance. Currently Sadler is Investment Manager with Samdef (Southern Africa Media Development Fund).

Matthew Buckland Matthew is a prominent blogger and has more than 12 years experience in online medium. He is currently the GM of Publishing & Social media at 24.com. He is also the former GM of South African online news publisher Mail & Guardian Online (www.mg.co.za), a former chair of the local Online Publishers Association and a director of Creative Commons, South Africa. He founded award-winning editorial blog Thought Leader (a 2008 Webby Honoree) and blog aggregator amatomu.com.

Jean DacieJean Dacie is the General Manager of DigiTV, General Manager since November 2007. His areas of expertise include: Cinema (VOD), television (New audiovisual services, production, distribution, mobile TV, IP TV), radio (digital). Jean, who is also an independent con-sultant in Audiovisual and New Medias, holds a PhD in Audiovisual Economics, from the University of Panthéon Sorbonne.

Philippe CouvePhilippe Couve is a journalist at Radio France Inter-nationale in France. He has been producer of the first French speaking “participative web & radio show” l’Atelier des médias on Radio France Internationale (RFI) since May 2007; a trainer in multimedia journalism in developing countries for RFI Talent + and a Web-jour-nalism teacher at Centre de formation des journalistes, Paris. Philippe is also a blogger.

Nikolaus EberlThe author of the bestselling book “BrandOvation™: How Germany won the World Cup of Nation Branding”, and the sequel “The Hero’s Journey: Building a Nation of World Champions”, Dr Nikolaus Eberl holds a PhD from the Free University of Berlin and a Postgraduate Di-ploma from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Dr Nikolaus’ research study on Germany’s Nation Branding Success Story during the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ was featured extensively by Carte Blanche.

Ken LohentoKen Lohento is Coordinator of the ICT Programme of the Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA, based in Sen-egal), where he initiates and implements ICT and media policies and uses activities. He has been engaged in ICT4D policy activities in Africa, on various capacities in local and international civil society or inter-governmental institutions for 10 years. Ken holds a Master of Research degree in Information Sciences (Université Paris X- France). 23

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Moagisi LetlhakuMoagisi Letlhaku, has a BA in Journalism and Politics from Rhodes University and an honours degree-level Postgraduate Diploma in Media Management from the Sol Plaatjie Institute for Media Leadership, also at Rhodes University. She currently works for Highway Africa (HA), a programme of Rhodes University’s School of Journalism. Moagisi heads up HA’s Future Journal-ists Programme, a national project targeting journalism students at South African institutions.

Phil Nicholson Phil was educated to Matric in Zimbabwe. He moved to South Africa in 1981 after school and has enjoyed a ca-reer in the technology space ever since. After 13 years with financial institutions working with IT Phil moved to the mining sector also working in IT. This lasted 2 years before he was approached by MultiChoice in 1997. The last 12 years have been with MultiChoice firstly in IT and then in Broadcast Technology.

Dumisani MoyoDr Dumisani Moyo is a Lecturer in the Media Studies Department at Wits University in Johannesburg (South Africa). He teaches communication theory, sociol-ogy of news production and political economy of the media in Southern Africa. His research interests include media policy and regulation in Southern Africa; media democracy and development; and alternative media and alternative public spheres.

Rosemary Okello OrlaleRosemary Okello Orlale is the Executive Director of African Woman and Child Features Service (AWC), a Ke-nyan based NGO whose mission is to promote gender equality through media and research. She serves as the coordinator to the Kenya Editor’s Guild and is also treasurer of The African Editor’s Forum among other things. She won the 2004 AISI best female reporter prize (Highway Africa 2004 Conference).

George W. LugalambiDr Lugalambi is a Lecturer and Head of Mass Communication Department at Makerere University (Uganda). With research interest in issues such as political communication and deliberative democracy, he has published scholarly works on media freedom in Africa, peace and conflict journalism, and the growth of media and ICTs in Uganda. He is a member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.

Steven LangSteven studied Portuguese in Brazil before joining the SABC where he worked in the Current Affairs section of Channel Africa Radio. In his 21 year career in the SABC he has worked as a reporter and producer in radio, New Media and television within the News Division. He was the founding editor of the Highway Africa News Agency (HANA) and led a team to both the Geneva and Tunisia legs of the WSIS. He is currently the editor of Grocott’s Mail, the Grahamstown community newspaper.

Eduardo ÁvilaEduardo Ávila is the founder and director of the Bolivian Voices project, which teaches the use of citizen’s media to underrepresented groups and regions of Bolivia. He is also the Latin American regional editor for Global Voices Online and currently resides in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Shireen BadatShireen Badat is Project Manager of Upstart, a new youth newspaper based at the David Rabkin Project for Experiential Journalism in Grahamstown. Her involve-ment in media began in the 1980s as an anti-apartheid activist. She was involved in Grassroots community newspaper, which pioneered the anti-apartheid com-munity press in the 1980s, and was also active in its Media Education and Training project.

Izak MinaarIzak Minnaar is a journalist and editorial manager, spe-cialising in news research and information management in newsrooms. He is currently Head of News Research at the SABC. In 1986 moved to television news. By 1993 he was Editor: News Magazine programmes at the SABC. He has worked mainly on major broadcast projects and was one of the editorial project leaders for the SABC’s special coverage of South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994.

Amina FrenseAmina Frense is a Broadcast Media practitioner , for a number of years and is active in several media organizations. She is a founding and council member of the South African Editors Forum – SANEF, and serves on the Press Council. At the IAJ - the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism , a tertiary training institute for mid career Journalists , she established the Broadcasting Department and is currently on its board of directors.24

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a liVing MiRRoR: the life of DeyDa hyDaRaauthors: aloa ahmed alota and Demba ali JawoDate anD PUBlisheR: 2007. the Point Press

Gunmen who are still at large killed the late Deyda Hydara, a Gam-bian journalist and publisher of The Point newspaper, in a drive-by shooting on the night of Thursday, 16 December 2004.

In this very readable and absorbing account of his life, beliefs and achievements, two journalist colleagues who worked closely with the late Deyda Hydara provide an invaluable and well researched book for all those interested in contemporary African affairs, and in the struggle of the modern African press especially in their pursuit of the right to freedom of expression and in the fight against corruption, tyranny and for human progress.

Here, we are able to follow Deyda Hydara’s progress from the time he first entered a classroom in colonial Gambia, to the day his formal schooling came to a premature end when he lost his sponsor as he pursued a degree programme at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, formerly Universite de Dakar.

Despite the temporary setback, the book attests to Deyda Hydara’s courage and determination to struggle through adversity, to be-come a most popular bilingual broadcaster by 1974 (even though he stammered, except when speaking on radio!).

We see Deyda Hydara as a husband and father, an enterprising

newspaper editor and a promoter of good causes, going in aid of the mental wing of the psychiatric hospital, and the fencing of the Old Jeshwang Cemetery, as well as a leader who successfully led the Gambia Press Union out of its relative obscurity into a respectable representative body on the rights of journalists.

He lost his life, when the fight of press freedom, which he led cou-rageously despite threats to his life, was at its height in the Gambia. His death plunged the country into a mood of despondency and the media community into a profound shock from which it has yet to recover fully.

This book is a fitting memorial to an enlightened humanist and a professional journalist who is already an inspiration to both present-day practitioners, and to all aspiring journalists everywhere. In this respect, the authors have done an excellent job in providing here a well-rounded account of the late Deyda Hydara’s life and its tragic end.

about the authors

Aloa Ahmed Alota is a Nigerian journalist based in The Gambia and Editor at The Point Newspaper.Aloa Ahmed Alota is editorial writer at The Point newspaper in Banjul, The Gambia. He is also executive secretary of the Deyda Hydara Trust (DHT), a organisation set up for the promotion of press freedom campaign across Africa. He is currently working on his first novel A Killer Also Dies, a story of a cub reporter who stumbles on a plot to kill her editor.

Demba Ali Jawo is a former president of the Gambia Press Union (GPU).

For more information, visit: http://www.deydahydara.com

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we the Media: grassroots Journalism by the People, for the Peopleauthor: Dan gillmorDate and Publisher: 2004. o’Reilly Media

Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media’s monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional jour-nalists and the newsmakers they cover. In We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, nationally known business and technology columnist Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerg-ing phenomenon, and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make and consume the news.

We the Media is essential reading for all participants in the news cycle. One, it is a useful tool for consumers who are eager to learn about how they can become producers of news. Gillmor lays out the tools of the grassroots journalist’s trade, including personal Web journals (called weblogs or blogs), Internet chat groups, email, and cell phones. He also illustrates how, in this age of media consolida-tion and diminished reporting, to roll your own news, drawing from the array of sources available online and even over the phone. Two, the book is a wake-up call to newsmakers that is politicians, business

executives and celebrities. The control that newsmakers enjoyed in the top-down world of Big Media is seriously undermined in the Internet Age. Gillmor shows newsmakers how to successfully play by the new rules and shift from control to engagement. Three, journal-ists discover that the new grassroots journalism presents opportuni-ty as well as challenge to their profession. One of the first main-stream journalists to have a blog, Gillmor says, “My readers know more than I do, and that’s a good thing.” In We the Media, he makes the case to his colleagues that, in the face of a plethora of Internet-fueled news vehicles, they must change or become irrelevant.

At its core, We the Media is a book about people. Give the people tools to make the news, We the Media asserts, and they will. Jour-nalism in the 21st century will be fundamentally different from the Big Media that prevails today. We the Media casts light on the future of journalism, and invites us all to be part of it.

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Dan Gillmor is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entre-preneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneur-ship at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. The project aims to help students appreciate the start-up culture of risk-taking, and to foster new media products and services. Dan is also director of the Center for Citizen Media, a project to enhance and expand grassroots media and its reach. The center is an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School and Arizona State.

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author: Mark BriggsDate and Publisher: 2007. Knight foundation

Digital journalism is about people, not technology. It is people who matter, not the latest software or Web site. If people learn how to make technology work for them, the rest is just details.

In Phil Meyer’s words, one can use Journalism 2.0 “like a cookbook. There are recipes, up-to date, for all kinds of things digital”. This handbook will guide you along the way, breaking down each skill and technology into digestible lessons that will be immediately us-able for you in your work. It is organised so you can focus on one discipline at a time. It is practical, not conceptual. You will be able to perform the skill the same day you read about it.

The fact is, if you work in journalism, you work for an online news organisation – whether you want to or not. Change is inevitable. Progress is optional. The future is now.

Download the full text of this book from:

http://www.kcnn.org/resources/journalism_20_copies

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Mark Briggs is a recovering sportswriter who discovered what the Internet could do for journalism in 1998 and has been sharing his enthusiasm with whomever will listen (and some who won’t) ever since, contributing to textbooks, seminars and conferences on the topic.

His day job is Assistant Managing Editor for Interactive News at The News Tribune in Tacoma, Washington. He has served as Editor of thenewstribune.com since 2004, when he was hired as Strategy and Content Manager for Interactive Media. He came to Tacoma from Everett, Washington, where he led online operations at The Herald as Content Manager, New Media Team Leader and New Media Director. During his four years there, The Herald received several regional and national awards for online innovation.

He has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina and a bachelor’s degree from Gonzaga University. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Seattle University.

JOURNALISM 2.0: HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE A DIGITAL LITERACY GUIDE FOR THE INFORMATION AGEMARK BRIGGS

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Water is essential to existence. Our bodies require it, as do our souls. It is the stuff of life and death, of sweat and tears, of need and wonder. Water bubbles through our imaginations, splashes through our forms of play and winds through the tributaries of human spir-ituality. Yet, as precious, as we know water is, we have treated it as if it were infinite and cheap, which has led to an international crisis of epic proportions.

One Water is a film that celebrates all the myriad ways water has touched human lives around the globe and explores our changing relationship to water as it grows ever more perilously scarce. The film leaves audiences with a series of provocative questions that culminate in one that will impact all of our futures; is water a human right or a commodity? Through a starkly emotional journey, the audience is invited to bear witness and encouraged to recognise this major global crisis as his or her very own.

Filmed in 15 countries in both hemispheres, One Water churns together stirring visual sequences, compelling expert commentary, hypnotic local music and a score performed by world renowned Russian National Orchestra to immerse audiences in a direct and exhilarating experience of the meaning of water to humanity.The film highlights a world where water is exquisitely abundant in

some places and dangerously lacking in others. Taps flowing with fresh, clean water are contrasted with toxic, polluted waterways that have turned the blue arteries of our planet murky.

In India, the story of women and children who walk miles everyday to fetch water of questionable quality unfolds, revealing how the need for water feeds the vicious cycle of poverty. In Africa and Hun-gary, the tale of how water washes through daily spiritual life and moments of bliss is explored. Along the Ganges, and the Colorado, the devastating drama of once sacred rivers suffering from extreme overuse comes to the fore. And from all over the world, come the scenes of how water is inspiring innovation, compassion and hope.

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Sanjeev Chatterjee is a documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor at the School of Commu-nication, University of Miami. Sometime during his college years during the 1980s, Sanjeev Chatterjee abandoned his dreams of joining the commercial Bollywood cinema in India to become a docu-mentary filmmaker. After spending time making documentaries about rural India he came to the United States for higher studies. Sanjeev’s work has

been seen on Doordarshan (National television in India), National Geographic, PBS, History Channel ... among other venues. His films are about global topics that include diasporas, peacekeeping and the environment.

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Timbuktu, situated near the Niger River at the southern edge of the Sahara, was established in the 12th century and flourished as a com-mercial centre, both for the salt trade from the north and the gold and slave trade from the south. Traders also brought their religion, and Islam spread from North Africa to become widely established in large areas of West Africa and along the coast of East Africa.

Timbuktu became an important centre of Islamic learning between 1300 and 1600 AD, drawing scholars to the Sankore mosque and private homes, where Islamic studies were pursued and knowledge was passed on. Here scholars read the manuscripts brought from other parts of the Islamic world, and copyists rewrote them for fur-ther distribution. New knowledge and intellectual debates produced additional works, and religious and private libraries flourished.

Most of the manuscripts were written in Arabic, but some very inter-esting examples were written in African languages, such as Tama-sheq, Fulani and Hausa, using Arabic script. A variety of calligraphic styles was used, including Sudani, Suqi and Sahrawi. Paper was imported through North Africa from European sources that can be traced through a study of the watermarks. The written pages were not bound but were stored in fine leather covers.

The aim of the exhibition is to make the scholarship and written legacy of Africa better known. The subject matter of the manuscripts in the holdings of the Ahmed Baba Institute reveals the vibrant atmosphere of piety, debate, scientific enquiry and literary accom-plishment that flourished in Timbuktu at the height of its period as a centre of scholarship.

The exhibition includes manuscripts ranging in subject matter from religion to astronomy and mathematics, as well as history and liter-ary forms. It also includes manuscripts covering legal judgements and commercial transactions that give a sense of the daily life of the citizens of Timbuktu.

The exhibition is an integral part of the South Africa-Mali project which was initiated by President Mbeki in 2002. As a flagship cultural initiative of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the project aims to conserve the important collection of manuscripts held at the Ahmed Baba institute of Higher Islamic Studies in Timbuktu through the training of conservation staff and the construction of a building to house the collection of the Ahmed Baba Institute. Timbuktu Script & Scholarship is complemented by a catalogue, ed-ited by University of Cape Town historian, Dr Shamil Jeppie. In addi-tion, Iziko Museums has produced a range of educational resources to accompany the exhibition.

The exhibition is funded by the national Department of Arts and Culture and supported by Standard Bank.

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BOOK LAUNCHES

A Living Mirror: The Life of Deyda Hydara by Aloa Ahmed Alota and Demba Ali Jawo

We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People by Dan Gillmor (Courtesy of DoC & OSISA)

DEMONSTRATIONS AND ExHIBITIONS

• SABC• DoC Exhibition / Stand• ABSA• MTN Exhibition• Telkom Exhibition• Community Radio

HIGHWAY AFRICA NEW MEDIA AWARDS

Awards Ceremony. Hosts: SABC and Highway Africa (event broadcast live on SABC International, 9 September 2008)

FILM SCREENINGOne Water - a film by Sanjeev Chatterjee will be presented at Highway Africa 2008 Conference by Joe Treaster (University of Miami)

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Once again this year, Highway Africa has a full training programme which started on 1st September and will end on 12th September. The training workshops offer participants a wide range of skills, focusing on both theory and practice of digital journalism. We have a wide assortment of courses on offer this year, ranging from design theory, community radio, reporting ICTs, using open source software, blogging, using the web as medium, knowledge and information management, as well as doing digital journalism. Our participants and expert trainers are drawn from all over Africa and abroad.

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Writing Lab NiZA-HA Training Workshop

Advanced Digital Journalism Cecil Mutambanengwe (Coordinator)Peter Verweij (Trainer)

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New Media KAS Training Workshop Digital Journalism Workshop Jude Mathurine (Trainer)

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20.15 Eden Grove Red Film Screening One Water – a film by Sanjeev Chatterjee Presented by Joe Treaster

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14.30 Gathurie Lab MTN Skills Workshop Using Google Tools to Track Stories Izak Minnaar

14.30 Union Lab OSIWA Skills Workshop Using Scribus in Design (French Language Only)

Nahmsath Yabouri

14.30 Seminar Room 2 Eden Grove

OSISA Skills Workshop Editing Made Easy with Joe Treaster and Jovial Rantao

Joe Treaster and Jovial Rantao

14.30 Eden Grove Lab OSISA Skills Workshop Investigative Journalism and Internet Resources

Stephen Miller

14.30 – 16.00

Fountain Lab DCI Workshop 1 How to create a podcast and attract an audience (Closed Workshop)

Jayne Morgan

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Fountain Lab DCI Workshop 2 How to set up and maintain micro blog (Closed Workshop)

Marlon parker

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Union Lab MDDA Training Workshop (community media)

Audacity Master Class for Community Media (Closed Workshop)

Douglas Arallenes and Jayne Morgan

14.30 Union Lab OSIWA Skills Workshop Using Scribus in Design (French Language) - Repeat

Nahmsath Yabouri

14.30 – 16.00

Fountain Lab DCI Training Workshop 3

How to take your blog to the next level (Closed Workshop) Ramon Thomas

16.30 – 18.00

Fountain Lab DCI Training Workshop 4

How to take your blog to the next level (Closed Workshop)

Ramon Thomas

14.30 Guthrie Lab Training Workshop Using Google Tools to Track Stories Izak Minnaar

14.30 St Peters 34 Launch and Training Workshop

Manual for Investigative Journalism Frank Windeck

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Union Lab MDDA Community Media Workshop

Podcasting (Closed Workshop) Douglas Arallenes and Jayne Morgan

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Eden Grove Blue DoC Training Workshop Doing Quality Journalism Using ICT Prof Peter VerweijKen Lohento

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Once again this year, Highway Africa has a full training programme which started on 1st September and will end on 12th September. The training workshops offer participants a wide range of skills, focusing on both theory and practice of digital journalism. We have a wide assortment of courses on offer this year, ranging from design theory, community radio, reporting ICTs, using open source software, blogging, using the web as medium, knowledge and information management, as well as doing digital journalism. Our participants and expert trainers are drawn from all over Africa and abroad.

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Advanced Digital Journalism Cecil Mutambanengwe (Coordinator)Peter Verweij (Trainer)

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New Media KAS Training Workshop Digital Journalism Workshop Jude Mathurine (Trainer)

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14.30 Gathurie Lab MTN Skills Workshop Using Google Tools to Track Stories Izak Minnaar

14.30 Union Lab OSIWA Skills Workshop Using Scribus in Design (French Language Only)

Nahmsath Yabouri

14.30 Seminar Room 2 Eden Grove

OSISA Skills Workshop Editing Made Easy with Joe Treaster and Jovial Rantao

Joe Treaster and Jovial Rantao

14.30 Eden Grove Lab OSISA Skills Workshop Investigative Journalism and Internet Resources

Stephen Miller

14.30 – 16.00

Fountain Lab DCI Workshop 1 How to create a podcast and attract an audience (Closed Workshop)

Jayne Morgan

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Fountain Lab DCI Workshop 2 How to set up and maintain micro blog (Closed Workshop)

Marlon parker

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Audacity Master Class for Community Media (Closed Workshop)

Douglas Arallenes and Jayne Morgan

14.30 Union Lab OSIWA Skills Workshop Using Scribus in Design (French Language) - Repeat

Nahmsath Yabouri

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Fountain Lab DCI Training Workshop 3

How to take your blog to the next level (Closed Workshop) Ramon Thomas

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Fountain Lab DCI Training Workshop 4

How to take your blog to the next level (Closed Workshop)

Ramon Thomas

14.30 Guthrie Lab Training Workshop Using Google Tools to Track Stories Izak Minnaar

14.30 St Peters 34 Launch and Training Workshop

Manual for Investigative Journalism Frank Windeck

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Eden Grove Blue DoC Training Workshop Doing Quality Journalism Using ICT Prof Peter VerweijKen Lohento

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1 – 10 SEPT Writing Lab NiZA-HA Training Workshop

Advanced Digital Journalism Cecil Mutambanengwe (Coordinator)Peter Verweij (Trainer)

4-10 SEPT New Media Lab KAS Training Workshop

Digital Journalism Workshop Jude Mathurine (Trainer)

6 SEPT Room 201: Africa Media Matrix

Meeting Council Meeting of The African Editors Forum (TAEF)

Liz Barratt (Coordinator)

6 SEPT Room 102: Africa Media Matrix

Steering Committee Meeting (closed)

Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)

Bettina Peters (Coordinator)

6 SEPT 19.00 Oppidan Dining Room

Dinner (By invitation only)

SANEF, TAEF, GFMD & ARFMD DinnerHosted by Telkom

7 SEPT 09.00-17.30

Eden Grove Blue Lecture Theatre

Indaba Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) Elvira van Noort (Coordinator)

7-8 SEPT Barratt Lecture Theatre

Conference (closed) African Regional Forum for Media Development (ARFMD)

Jeanette Minnie (Coordinator)

7 SEPT Room 202: Africa Media Matrix

Meeting Council Meeting of the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF)

Femida Mehta (Coordinator)

[LIVE AND PRE-RECORDED BROADCASTS FROM GRAHAMSTOWN BY:SABC NEWS INTERNATIONAL / SAfm / UMHLOBO WENENE TruFM, AND CHANNEL AFRICA]

7 SEPT 18.30 Rhodes University Great Hall

Opening Reception (Hosted by MTN)

Welcome Address Professor Guy BergerMayor Phumelelo KatePearl Majola, MTN

7 SEPT Bella Vita Dinner (By invitation only)

SANEF and TAEF DinnerHosted by MultiChoice

7 SEPT 20.15 Eden Grove Film Screening One Water – a film by Sanjeev Chatterjee

Presented by Joe Treaster (University of Miami)

11 SEPT Meeting African Schools of Journalism Meeting

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08.30 Eden Grove Red Opening Welcome Address Prof Guy Berger, Rhodes UniversityDr Saleem Badat, Vice-Chancellor, Rhodes UniversityPhil Molefe, SABC Thami Msimango, TelkomJovial Rantao, SANEFCheriff Sy, TAEF

09.30 Eden Grove Red Plenary Technology for the Digital Citizen Adam Clayton-Powell lll, Vice-Provost, University of Southern California

10.00 Eden Grove Red Plenary Citizen Media: What is it? What does it mean? Where is it going?

Chair: Prof Tawana KupeDan GillmorGeorgia PopplewellVincent Maher

11.00 TEA-BREAK

11.30 Eden Grove Red Keynote Address Digital Africa: the digital possibilities for the continent

Deputy Minister Radhakrishna Roy Padayachie (Department of Communications, South Africa)

12.00 Eden Grove Red Panel Discussion Journalism in the Service of the Citizen: what has changed?

Chair: Mapule MbhalatiRobert KabushengaRosemary Orkale-OkelloAmina FrenseJovial Rantao

11.00-13.00

Union Lab MDDA Skills Workshop

Using Campcaster Douglas Arallenes

13.15 LUNCH SPONSORED BY TELKOM (NELSON MANDELA DINING HALL)

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14.30 Guthrie Lab MTN Skills Workshop

Using Google Tools to Track Stories Izak Minnaar

14.30 Union Lab OSIWA Skills Workshop

Using Scribus in Design (French Language Only)

Nahmsath Yabouri

14.30 Seminar Room 2 Eden Grove

OSISA Skills Workshop

Editing Made Easy with Joe Treaster Joe Treaster and Jovial Rantao

14.30 Eden Grove Blue Academic Session

1. Citizen journalism and civic education: exploring the theoretical and practical linkages2. Citizen journalism as political praxis: the case of Zimbabwe 3. If all citizens can be journalists, who isn’t a journal-ist? Exploring the philosophical linkage between citizenship and journalism

Chair: Prof Fackson BandaDr George Lugalambi (Makerere)Dr Dumisani Moyo (Wits)Dr Abiodun Salawu (Ajayi Crowther)Roland AdamsDr Wallace Chuma (UCT)

14.30 Eden Grove Lab OSISA Skills Workshop

Investigative Journalism and Internet Resources Stephen Miller

14.30 Eden Grove Red Roundtable Media Funding and Sustainability Chair: Jeanette MinnieLumko MtimdeBettina PetersSadler KamudyariwaLeon Morse

14.30 – 16.00

Fountain Lab DCI Workshop 1 How to create a podcast and attract an audience Jayne Morgan

16.30 – 18.00

Fountain Lab DCI Workshop 2 How to set up and maintain micro blog Marlon Parker

17.00 Eden Grove Red Launch African Regional Forum for Media Development Jeanette Minnie

18.30 Great Hall, Rhodes University

Dinner Absa Africa Night DinnerTheme: Africa’s Time

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07.30 Kiara Restaurant Breakfast Absa Networking Breakfast (by invitation only) Absa Executives

08.30 Eden Grove Red Presentation In the Information Age Do Physical Spaces for Knowledge Matter?

Gwenda Thomas

09.00 Eden Grove Blue Panel Discussion Capacitating Media and Citizens in Africa: challenges and responses

Chair: Lumko MtimdeBettina Peters (GFMD)Jeanette Minnie (AFMD)Sadler Kamudyariwa (SAMDEF)Noma Rangana (HIVOS)Bob van Winden (BW Support)

09.00 Eden Grove Red Plenary Digital Media Business Models: the search for the Holy Grail (including discussion on mobile technology and role in journalism and the media)

Chair: Judi NwokediProf Guy BergerMatthew Buckland Arthur GoldstuckSteven LangNic Haralambous

09.00 – 11.30

Union Lab MDDA Training Workshop (community media)

Audacity Master Class for Community Media Douglas Arallenes and Jayne Morgan

10.00 Eden Grove Red Live Debate 2010 State of Readiness: A Special SABC Presentation

SABC

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11.30 Eden Grove Red Plenary Citizens’ Media and New Technologies: the French Experience

Chair: Diana SenghorJohn MaguirePhilippe CouveJean DaciePierre Haski

12.30 Eden Grove Red Presentation Television and the Citizen-Consumer: What’s Coming Next?

Phil Nicholson

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14.30 Eden Grove Red Presentation 2010 FIFA World Football Cup (sponsored by MTN)

Dr Nikolaus Eberl

14.30 Eden Grove Seminar Room 3

Roundtable Discussion

Voices of the People: Media Initiatives to Give People Real Voices

Charlotte Bauer (African Voices)Sami Ben Gharbia (Global Voices)Sipho January/ Prof Guy Berger Indaba ZiyafikaEduardo Ávila - Voices Bolivianas

14.30 Union Lab OSIWA Skills Workshop

Using Scribus in Design (French Language) (Repeat) Nahmsath Yabouri

14.30 – 16.00

Fountain Lab DCI Training Workshop 3

How to take your blog to the next level Ramon Thomas

16.30 – 18.00

Fountain Lab DCI Training Workshop 4

How to take your blog to the next level Ramon Thomas

14.30 Eden Grove Blue Networking African-European-North American Universities Meeting

Chair: Adam Clayton Powell lll

14.30 Eden Grove Seminar Room 2

Roundtable Discussion

Digital Migration: Where are we? Where are going?

DoCTelkomMTNCIPACOOSIWA

14.30 Guthrie Lab Training Workshop Using Google Tools to Track Stories Izak Minnaar

14.30 St Peters 34 Launch and Training Workshop

Manual for Investigative Journalism Frank Windeck

16.30 DoC Stand Book Launch Book Launch: Deyda Heydara Ahmed Alota

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08.30 Eden Grove Red Q & A with Highway Africa Digital Journalism Award Winners

09.00 Eden Grove Red Presentation Developing Curricula for Citizen Journalism Training Programmes

Dan Gillmor

09.00 -12.30

Union Lab MDDA Community Media Workshop

Podcasting Douglas Arallenes and Jayne Morgan

10.30 TEA BREAK

11.00-12.30

Eden Grove Red Panel Discussion Media and Young People: are we where the youth are at?

Chair: Moagisi Letlhaku, FJPShireen Badat, UpstartDr Snuki ZikalalaDuncan Guy, SAPA

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Eden Grove Blue DoC Training Workshop

Doing Quality Journalism Using ICTs Prof Peter VerweijKen Lohento

12.30 Eden Grove Red Awarding of Certificates to NIZA Advanced Digital Journalism Course Participants

Prof Guy BergerProf Peter Verweij

12.45 Eden Grove Red Closing Statements

Prof Fackson BandaChris Kabwato

13.00 LUNCH - LUNCH SPONSORED BY RHODES UNIVERSITY (NELSON MANDELA DINING HALL)

14.00 AMM TV Studios LAUNCHLaunch of the SABC News Centre at the Rhodes School of Journalism

Dr Snuki ZikalalaPaul Hills

14.30 Eden Grove Red Meeting of Community Media Professionals

14.30 Visit to Grocott’s Mail to learn at first hand the convergence project the newspaper has undertaken

14.30 AMM Conference Room

Meeting of Journalism Educators and Trainers and Editors: discussion around journalism educators networks and links to journalists associa-tions; state of journalism education and training in Africa; some concrete proposals

18.30 AMM and Nelson Mandela Dining Hall

Closing Reception Closing Reception

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African Schools of Journalism Meeting Prof Guy Berger

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The Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) is being held for the third time this year in Grahamstown, South Africa on 6-9 September 2008. Our aim is to bring together bloggers, citizen journalists, media practitioners, industry experts, and representatives from civil society all under one roof.

The Indaba is run as a non-profit event and features a diverse range of speak-ers and media professionals from across the globe. DCI aims to facilitate an ongoing conversation around Web 2.0, participatory media intellectual property rights and marketing and equip Africans with skills related to new media which empower them and the organisations they work for by creating a long-lasting, long-reaching digital voice.

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There are many ways to communicate but it doesn’t get better than at a face-to-face networking event. During the next couple of days bloggers, podcast-ers, vodcasters, mobile journalists, citizen reporters, new media practitioners and YOU come together to discuss empowering new media skills that make it possible to create and sustain a long-lasting, far-reaching digital voice. Just as the DCI aspires.

This African voice should not be silenced by local challenges like broadband access or budget constraints, therefore, this Indaba seeks to assess more practical solutions. We will look at cheap Internet solutions and discuss the use of free mobile technologies.

Projects like Ushahidi.com, where Kenyans were able to report acts of violence during post-election times, and the rise of the FOKO Blog Club in Madagas-car which trains citizens to use citizen media, are just two of many successful examples. They make use of technologies that have so far proven to empower Africa’s digital citizens.

As you can see, this Indaba focuses not only on that what we say and who is saying it, but also looks at how we say it. With the theme being ‘Technol-ogy for the Digital Citizen’ we are looking into technologies like MXit, a free instant messaging program for your cell phone and PC, but also at how to sustain a community blog or how to create a podcast that people want to listen to.

Thanks to the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) who have made it possible to run a third DCI.

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Toby ShapshakToby’s career in journalism has spanned breaking news, investigative reporting, covering politics, sport and technology, to running two online newspapers and edit-ing a men’s magazine. He is now the digital publisher for Avusa’s magazine division and is the editor of Stuff magazine. He writes a column for The Times news-paper and is a contributing editor for Business Day’s Wanted magazine. He was the Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year for 2002.

Jayne MorganJayne runs Podcart, a company set up to produce quality podcasts for brands. Podcart has also created podcasts for, amongst others, Woolworths, Old Mutual, Cape Town Routes Unlimited, Stellekaya Wines and Madison Property Developers. Jayne has extensive radio experience having worked for BBC Radio 4 (the UK’s national speech network), SAfm and Talk Radio 702 as a producer of John Robbie’s morning show and later as head of productions for the station.

Chris KabwatoChris joined Highway Africa in October 2003 as director. Highway Africa is a network of African journalists and exists to promote the use and understanding of ICTs and new media by journalists. Highway Africa convenes the largest annual gathering of African journalists (701 people attended Highway Africa Conference 2007). Chris is also publisher/editor-in-chief of the Highway Africa News Agency. His portfolio includes projects in media, ICTs, gender and the arts.

Nicholas HaralambousNicholas is the General Manager of Zoopy in Gauteng. He is also a journalist, blogger and entrepreneur. He entered the media market as a freelance writer and photographer four years ago and today owes his achievements to new media. Nicholas is also a pas-sionate South African. SA Rocks (www.sarocks.co.za) is his passion-project and allows him to express his love for a growing country facing many teething problems.

Damaria SenneDamaria is a blogger and freelance writer based in Jo-hannesburg. Previously, she worked for ITWeb, a South African technology media house, as a senior journalist specialising in telecommunications. She believes very strongly that ICTs can and should be used as a devel-opment tool and a platform to give ordinary Africans a voice. Damaria was a finalist in the 2006 Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year Award and the 2006 MyADSL Journalist of the Year award.

Andriankoto Ratozamanana Andriankoto has been an activist blogger since January 2005. Most particularly, he was chosen to be a TED Fel-low in 2007. Andriankoto is very aware of how blogging allows a small and fragmented community like the Mala-gasy one to connect with the rest of the world. He has actively and extensively used his blogging experience when founding Foko Madagascar Networking. He has a BSc IT in Communication from the University of Provence, France.

Nonhlanhla DewaNono is currently completing her Masters thesis in Journalism and Media studies at Rhodes University. Her research focus is in the field of gender and tabloids. She has worked as a news and features reporter in Zimbabwe. She has also worked for an NGO as an Information, Research and Public Relations officer. Nono is interested in learning more about new media as a possible future research interest.

Henk Kleynhans Henk is a computer scientist and Internet junkie turned social entrepreneur. He founded Skyrove, which enables anyone to set up a WiFi Hotspot and earn an income by sharing their internet access with their neigh-bours. In 2005 Henk won the Enablis Business Report ICT Entrepreneur’s Challenge and in 2006 Skyrove received the prestigious Technology Top 100 award for ‘Most Promising Emerging Enterprise’. He currently blogs at M&G’s Techleader.

Marlon ParkerMarlon is an Information Technology Lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) since October 2000. He obtained his Masters degree in Information Technology (Cum Laude) and is currently busy with his PhD at CPUT. He produced several research papers and also co-authored in a published book called “The social impacts of e-commerce”. His passion for community development has influenced his research interests.

Peter Verweij Peter is a senior lecturer at the School of Journalism at Utrecht in The Netherlands. His main teaching areas are new media studies and computer assisted research. At the School he manages the new media lab, for practice and experiments in online journalism. You can find him at Rhodes University at a regular basis. He gives guest lectures, workshops and runs Highway Africa-related training courses and projects.

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Elisabeth Benkam Elisabeth is a mobile reporter for Africanews.com since March 2008. With a Nokia N73 she shoots videos and reports on news events and daily happenings in Cam-eroon. After studying public relations in the Advanced School of Mass Communication (ASMAC) Elisabeth worked at the Indigenious Soil and Water Conservation (ISWC), an NGO related to environment, as a com-munications officer.

Matthew BucklandMatthew is currently the GM of Publishing & Social media at the country’s largest online operation, 24.com. He is also the former GM of South African online news publisher Mail & Guardian Online, the oldest on the African continent, which is also co-owned by the UK’s Guardian Newspapers Ltd. He founded award-winning editorial blog Thought Leader (a 2008 Webby Honoree) and blog aggregator Amatomu.com.

Munene Kilongi Munene works for Africa Interactive, on a project called Voices of Africa and reports on news using his cell phone. Since 2001 he has written news reports for the Associated Press and Reuters and also for the three dominant dailies in Kenya. Apart from freelancing Mu-nene is currently working as a Special Correspondent for an American newspaper company called McClatchy Newspapers.

Adam Clayton Powell lll Adam is Vice Provost for Globalization at the University of Southern California. Adam is widely published, and recently published a book entitled “Reinventing Local News: Connecting with Communities Using New Tech-nologies”. He also contributed to “America’s Dialogue with the World” and has written for a number of publica-tions, including The New York Times, Wired Magazine, and Online Journalism Review.

Ameyaw Debrah Ameyaw is a freelance journalist based in Accra, Ghana who graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Publishing Studies. Ameyaw currently works for a number of magazines including three websites and has developed a passion for online publishing and web editing. He is also a mobile reporter for Africanews.com, where he uses mobile phone technology to report events and issues in Ghana.

Elvira van Noort Elvira is a journalist, new media enthusiast, media trainer, lecturer, and media consultant. She works for herself, choosing a lifestyle filled with short new media projects and adventures in journalism. She is currently coordinating this third Digital Citizen Indaba. Elvira holds a bachelor with honours in new media from the School of Journalism in Utrecht, The Netherlands and a MA in Journalism & Media Studies from Rhodes University on the topic of newsroom convergence.

Jude Mathurine Jude has over a decade of experience in the fields of journalism education, media advocacy, media assistance, and production, editing and design. He worked for the Department of Journalism at the former Technikon Natal in Durban, the sub-Sahara Media Programme of an international German foundation and Media Institute of Southern Africa. Jude is currently the media lecturer and coordinator of Rhodes University’s New Media Lab and Digital Editor for Grocott’s Mail.

Ramon Thomas Ramon teaches blogging workshops across South Africa. His pioneering research into the Online Dating industry has positioned him as an expert on the Psy-chology of Technology. He is the author of two ebooks: Parent’s Guide to MXit and LinkedIn Lessons. Before founding NETucation in 2004, he worked in the Internet and Banking industries in SA, England and United Arab Emirates. He holds a B.Sc degree and will complete a Masters in Information Science in 2009.

Dan Gillmor Dan is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media En-trepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. The proj-ect aims to help students appreciate the start-up culture of risk-taking, and to foster new media products and services. Dan is also director of the Center for Citizen Media, a project to enhance and expand grassroots media and its reach.

Bibi-Aisha WadvallaBibi-Aisha majored in biomedical science, but always had a love for media. She freelanced part-time for community newspapers and thus considers herself a citizen journalist. After doing an assignment in Lebanon she realised journalism was a calling. She currently produces and presents Weekend Live current affairs at SAfm. She also writes for www.scidev.net and is a 2007 Highway Africa award-winner.

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09h00-09h30Keynote addressDamaria Senne (Journalist and Blogger)

09h30-10h00MXit and community bloggingMarlon Parker (Cape Peninsula University)Moderator: Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla (SAfm)

10h00-10h30creating a podcast that people want to listen toJayne Morgan (Podcart.co.za)Moderator: Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla (SAfm)

10h30-11h00tea Break - eden grove foyer

11h00-11h30citizen journalism and the tools to get it doneNicholas Haralambous (Zoopy.com)Moderator: Nonhlanhla Dewa (MA, Rhodes University)

11h30-12h00Blogging in a small community: MadagascarAndriankoto Ratozamanana (FOKO Blogger)Moderator: Nonhlanhla Dewa (MA, Rhodes University)

12h00-12h30community-owned wireless internetHenk Kleynhans (CEO SkyRove)Moderator: Nonhlanhla Dewa (MA, Rhodes University)

13h00-14h00lunch - nelson Mandela Dining hall

14h15-15h45interactive Panel: how cellphones can empower african digital citizensElisabeth Benkam (Mobile Reporter - Voices of Africa)Munene Kilongi (Mobile Reporter - Voices of Africa)Ameyaw Debrah (Mobile Reporter - Voices of Africa)Moderator: Peter Verweij (School of Journalism, Utrecht)

16h00-17h00Debate: whose citizen journalism is it anyway?Dan Gillmor (Author ‘We the Media’)Matthew Buckland (GM Media 24.com)Moderator: Jude Mathurine (RU New Media Lab)

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17h00 - 17h15closing remarksAdam Clayton Powell lll (University of Southern California)

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17h15tea Break - eden grove foyer

18h30Dci closing & highway africa opening ReceptionRhodes University Great Hall

DATE AND TIME VENUE SUBJECT FACILITATOR

Monday, 8 Sept 14.30-16.00

Fountain Lab How to create a podcast and attract an audience

Jayne Morgan

Monday, 8 Sept16.30-18.00

Fountain Lab How to set up and maintain a micro-blog for your community

Marlon Parker

Tuesday, 9 Sept14.30-16.00

Fountain Lab How to take your blog to the next level Ramon Thomas

Tuesday, 9 Sept16.30-18.00

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09.30-10.00 MXit and Community Blogging - Marlon Parker (Cape Peninsula University)- Moderator: Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla (SAfm)

10.00-10.30 Creating a podcast that people want to listen to

- Jayne Morgan (Podcart.co.za)- Moderator: Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla (SAfm)

10.30-11.00 TEA BREAK - Eden Grove Foyer11.00-11.30 Citizen journalism and the tools to get it done - Nicholas Haralambous (Zoopy.com)

- Moderator: Nonhlanhla Dewa (MA, Rhodes University)

11.30-12.00 Blogging in a small community: Madagascar - Andriankoto Ratozamanana (FOKO Blogger)- Moderator: Nonhlanhla Dewa (MA, Rhodes University)

12.00-12.30 Community-owned wireless internet - Henk Kleynhans (CEO SkyRove)- Moderator: Nonhlanhla Dewa (MA, Rhodes University)

13.00-14.00 LUNCH - Nelson Mandela Dining Hall (transport provided from Eden Grove)14.15-15.45 Interactive Panel: How cellphones can

empower African digital citizens- Elisabeth Benkam (Mobile Reporter - Voices of Africa)- Munene Kilongi (Mobile Reporter - Voices of Africa)- Ameyaw Debrah (Mobile Reporter - Voices of Africa)- Moderator: Peter Verweij (School of Journalism, Utrecht)

16.00-17.00 Debate: Whose citizen journalism is it anyway? - Dan Gillmor (Author ‘We the Media’)- Matthew Buckland (GM Media 24.com)- Moderator: Jude Mathurine (RU New Media Lab)

17.00-17.15 Closing remarks - Adam Clayton Powell lll (University of Southern California)

17.00-17.15 Announcements - Elvira van Noort (Journalist, Media Trainer, Consultant)

17.15-17.30 TEA BREAK - Eden Grove Foyer18.30 DINNER - DCI Closing and Highway Africa Opening Reception

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Visas & vaccinations

If you are travelling from overseas and you are not a South African citizen, you should be aware of the following

information:

Most EU, US and Australian citizens do not need to apply for a visa in advance of travel to South Africa. Usually, citizens of

these countries will be granted visitor’s permits of 90 days duration on arrival. To confirm that you are visa-exempt, please

check your status against the list of visa-exempt countries available at the following home affairs website:

http://home-affairs.pwv.gov.za/visa_schedule.asp

Even if you are visa-exempt, there are still a few requirements that you must meet to travel to South Africa:

1. A valid passport (usually for six months beyond your visit)

2. At least two blank pages in your passport (as you will receive a visitor’s permit sticker and a stamp from South African

immigration on arrival)

3. Your return air ticket

4. A completed customs declaration form (provided by your airline on the plane), which includes a space for your ad

dress whilst in south Africa and details of any currency you are bringing with you.

5. A yellow fever vaccination card.

Please note the above required documents are your responsibility and Highway Africa will not be held liable for any costs

incurred in the processing or postage of these.

To facilitate your visa applications please use the invitation letter from Highway Africa.

Submit an email to l.kitit@ru.ac.za and request a copy of this letter- and one will be faxed to you.

arrival

Rennies Travel agents as well as the conference shuttle driver will meet you at the airport and take you to your reserved

accommodation place. Please look out for the Rennies Travel and Highway Africa signs. Please also note that there are

other Rhodes University conferences taking place at the same time, so be careful to find the correct transport people at the

airport. Shops and banks are easily accessible in Grahamstown. If you are not an already paid-up registered conference

delegate you will have to pay the shuttle driver directly. The fee is ZAR400 (South African rands) one way.

Please book your tickets to arrive at Port Elizabeth Airport (PLZ).

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Highway Africa will not pay for lost baggage, clothing etc. You will have to go through the normal airline procedures to claim

these back, with your own funds and in your own time. Therefore please ensure you take the necessary travel insurance

steps before your departure.

Highway Africa will not pay for lost baggage, clothing etc. You will have to go through the normal airline procedures to claim

these back, with your own funds and in your own time. Therefore please ensure you take the necessary travel insurance

steps before your departure.

accommodation

Comfortable rooms have been reserved in university residence. The residences are surrounded by gardens, and all are

within easy walking distance of the Eden Grove complex where the conference will be held. Campus accommodation

includes shared bathroom facilities (baths and showers are available in all residences) and late-night tea and coffee on a

self-service basis. Public telephones are also available. Campus accommodation includes a full English breakfast each

morning, served in the appropriate dining hall. Vegetarian and halaal menu options are available. Please indicate any pref-

erences on the registration form.

Upon arrival you will be taken to the place of residence reserved for you. As part of your scholarship Highway Africa only

covers your basic accommodation costs of bed and breakfast. You are required to settle any extras bill before departure.

Highway Africa will not be held liable for any outstanding payments during or after the conference. Please also ensure that

you read our accommodation policy document before booking.

Should you prefer to make your own accommodation arrangements please visit:

http://www.grahamstown.co.za/accomodation.asp (take note wrong spelling in url is deliberate).

Main conference venue

The 3-day conference (8-10 September 2008) will be held at the Eden Grove administration block, which is the main events

venue for Rhodes University. The conference programme will begin on Sunday, 7 September at 18.30 hrs with welcome

addresses and cocktails and end on Wednesday, 10 September with a closing reception at 19.30 hrs. Teas and buffet lunch

and evening meals will be served during the conference days only.

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We have made arrangements for your pick-up on arrival (please see above). Transport will be available for all functions dur-

ing the conference, as well as for your departure after the conference. Please ensure you have liaised with our staff on your

itinerary. A Rennies Travel agent will be available at the conference venue for you to confirm your return tickets.

Dietary requirements

Please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements on your registration form. Vegetarian options will be

available. It is critical that we know about your dietary needs well in advance.

help desk

A conference help desk will be set up in the foyer of the Eden Grove centre. This will serve as your port of call for all queries

and further information. There will also be a Rennies travel desk that will operate from 10h00 till 14h00 for the duration of the

conference. This is where you can confirm your flight details and travel plans. It is your responsibility, and not the organis-

ers, to ensure this confirmation.

finance

Absa is the conference’s Financial Institution Partner and there will be a dedicated service at the Absa stand in the Exhibi-

tion Hall (Eden Grove Complex). No financial transactions will be conducted at the stand. The Absa representative at the

stand will direct you to the Absa branch where there will be a dedicated teller to attend to your requests. The operating

times are 08:30-15:00(Mon-Fri) and 08:00-11:00(Sat).

Money should be brought in the form of traveller’s cheques, which are more easily negotiable than letters of credit or bank-

ers’ draft.Please note that Highway Africa is unable to cash personal or travellers’ cheques or have these done for you.

insurance

You are strongly advised to insure your personal effects before leaving home for the full period of your stay. Highway Africa

cannot be held responsible for any claims for personal property damaged or lost. You are also strongly advised to ensure

that you have adequate medical insurance to cover the period of your stay in South Africa.

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The Eastern Cape is a malaria-free zone but should you feel you that you have contracted malaria elsewhere please carry

the relevant medication with you. As a precaution it is advisable for delegates travelling from all African countries to carry

malaria medication along. Medication for common ailments such as flu and headaches is available, at your own cost, from

the local Grahamstown pharmacies. Staff will be able to point you in the right direction for pharmacies but Highway Africa

will not be liable for any costs incurred.

clothing

It is spring in South Africa. Temperatures in Grahamstown vary between 14 degrees Celsius and 28 degrees Celsius with

chances of rain. We strongly advise you to bring warm clothing, as the weather in Grahamstown is highly unpredictable.

Dress during the conference will be informal but there may be occasions when you wish to wear more formal dress, such

as for the SABC awards ceremony and for the various evening functions.

Departure

Highway Africa will provide transport to the airport for registered paid-up and sponsored delegates and you are required to

check in at least two hours before your scheduled departure. The director and Highway Africa staff wishes you a safe and

pleasant journey to South Africa and look forward to meeting you.

Payment options

• Please make cheques payable to: Rhodes University. Regrettably, no personal cheques in any currency other than South

African Rand (ZAR) can be accepted.

• Payment by international money order can be accepted.

• Payment by direct electronic transfer is possible. We will however need proof of that transfer.

Please fax proof of payment to +2746 603 7189, attention: Highway Africa.

Alternatively scan the slip and email to l.kitit@ru.ac.za

• Payment in cash on arrival is possible for all non-residential options. Please note that a completed booking form is still

required by the deadline, even if you intend to pay by cash.

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Academics and NGOs - R900

Corporate and Professionals - R2500

Students - R300

Please note these costs exclude travel and accommodation. They do include conference sessions, skills training

workshops, 3 meals daily, info packs, conference bag and publications, social events. Daily rates are pro rata.

exhibition Details (eden grove)

Exhibition Setup

HA will provide the following on request:

• network points

• telephones (costs to the exhibitors)

• furniture (display boards / tables / chairs / white tablecloths)

* Please note that exhibitors must provide their own computers and telephones.

* Please indicate any other requirements necessary for your exhibition.

* Please contact our Conference Manager at conference@highwayafrica.com for further information.

Exhibition Package

1. Publicity in the main programme and other materials e.g.: press releases

2. Assistance with specific launches and demonstrations

3. Access to 400 + influential media players

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Please note that our banking details have changed from Standard Bank to First National Bank. Please take note of our new

details below:

Account: First National Bank, High Street, Grahamstown, 6139

Branch code: 210717

Account number: 62145503076

Reference number: FIRNZAJJ

NB: Please fax proof of payment to: +27 (46) 603 7189

internet access

Should you wish to have access to internet facilities at the conference, please fill in the application for guest access form. It

can be found on our site. Submit this together with your registration form and a copy of your identity/passport document.

Failure to fill in this form and to submit a copy of your identity/passport document will result in a failure for you to access

internet facilities at the conference. Highway Africa and the Rhodes University IT Department will not provide last minute

logins. These all need to be issued ahead of the conference.

Key contacts:

Luthando Kiti (accommodation and transport) – +2746 603 7187 / +27824260640 / l.kitit@ru.ac.za

Sibusiso Mtshali – +2746 603 7186 / +27784080207/ s.mtshali@ru.ac.za

Khaya Thonjeni – (Media Enquiries) +27781173402/ thonjeni@yahoo.com

Sipho January – (Exhibitions) +2746 603 7110/ +27733964708/ sipho.january@ru.ac.za

Elvira van Noort (DCI) – +27738327759

Chris Kabwato – +2782 582 9534 / 046 603 7138 / c.kabwato@ru.ac.za

http://www.highwayafrica.com

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SABCPhumelele Ntombela-NzimandeSnuki ZikalalaMapule MbhalatiPhil MolefeKaizer KganyagoPeter KweleDineo MondlaneNisha JonesZola YeyeVuyo MthembuSuzette PretoriusTrudie MackayLiesl HefkiePapa MbongoSetlogola ThokeIzak MinaarKieran MareeNeli ShupingDudu Malaza-Moloi Patricia GladeAnnette StanderOnke ZembeEvelyn TongwaneGontse MoyahiJanet MarxMosh MatsenaLouise LindequeJudy SandisonDeidre UrenPat KondileNeo SehumeThelma Barrett

RHODES UNIVERSITYSaleem BadatPeter ClaytonGuy BergerFackson BandaChris KabwatoSibusiso Mtshali Luthando KitiMoagisi LetlhakuElvira van Noort

Cecil MutambanengweShalen GajadharPaul GreenwayJoe AlfersAndrew DunlopSimon PamphilonPeter VerweijNonhlanhla DewaOlumide AlebiosuRobert BrandReg RumneyJude MathurineSteven LangSiphokazi PeterKamo GaokgwatheThokozile MtsolongNtombizandile GedzeSeanna ChingamukaKhaya TonjeniSolomon MoyoLinda SnamHANA JournalistsStudent Assistants (too many to mention here)

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONSLyndall Shope-MafoleRadhakrishna PadayachieGerda GrabeNorman MunzheleleAlbi ModiseSamantha BloemNtsebi LeburuHilda Makena

NiZAFenneke Hulsoff PolEsther Blommestijn

ABSAHappy NtshingilaMakhosini NkosiMaxwell PikirisiTaubie MotlhabaneWendy BothaRobyn King

OSISAThandi MbvundulaSam PhiriBenedict Komeke

MTNNozipho January-BardillPearl MajolaLerato SeheriLwazi Stuurman

KASFrank WindeckAlexandra Klingenburg

OSFZohra DawoodNoloyiso MchunuHelene van de Watt

OSIWANana TankoBen AkohMarie N’guettia

TELKOMThami MsimangoBintu PetsanaPatricia Sizani

SIEMENSGreg GibbonSithembile Mokaeane

FRENCH EMBASSYLaurent CrosetPhilippe Aldon

ORGANISATION DE LA FRANCOPHONIETidiane Dioh

MULTICHOICEJackie RakitlaMarilyn WatsonLinda Becker

MAKANA MUNICIPALITYMayor Phumelelo Kate

MDDALumko MtimdeJayshree PatherHarry LetsebeNomusa NdawondeHariet Mhlanga

COLLABORATING PARTNERSMathatha Tsedu – TAEFElizabeth Barrat – TAEFFemida Mehta – SANEFJovial Rantao – SANEFPeter Verweij – School of Journalism, UtrechtJoel KibazoDiana Senghor – PIWAKen Lohento – PIWAMabalane Mfundisi – Serongwanyane TechnologiesNnenna Nakwanma – FOSSFAKwami Ahiabenu III – PenplusBytes Kofi Mangesi – PenplusBytesNombulelo xalisa

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DCI: Digital Citizen Indaba

EGB: Eden Grove Blue (Lecture Theatre)

EGR: Eden Grove Red (Lecture Theatre)

FOSSFA: Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa

ICT: Information and Communication Technologies

MDDA: Media Development and Diversity Agency

NiZA: Nederlands instituut voor Zuidelijk Afrika

SABC: South African Broadcasting Corperation

SANEF: South African National Editors Forum

TAEF: The African Editors Forum

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