Rapidly growing cell phone access in South Africa provides an opportunity for inexpensive mobile news delivery. Almost 100% of families have cell phones, and phone capabilities are improving. However, internet access remains expensive in many areas. This document discusses experiments using citizen journalism, SMS/text messages, and social media to deliver low-cost news and information on mobile platforms. Content is gathered through training citizens, incentives, and embracing user-generated input. The goal is to create "informed, engaged communities" in resource-poor areas by shifting to mobile-first strategies and distributing content through multiple affordable mobile channels.
Why the future of African journalism lies in mobile social networksJude Mathurine
Why the digital divide should not be an excuse for African media leaders to ignore the power of social media particular and the Internet in general.
Introduces SMS for Social Networking Systems in Africa.
Impact of Digitalization and Role of Media in Creating NarrativesAmir Jahangir
A presentation at the seminar on Role of Media in Creating Narratives by the Center of Pakistan and International Relations (COPAIR).
The presentation looks at the digital transformation and how it has impacted the consumption patterns and the changing techniques that is required for narrative building in a hybrid and digital world.
About Ebola Deeply - Slides from Foreign Press CenterJon Gosier
Slides from the Interview with Jon Gosier (Ebola Deeply) and Nicole Walden (International Rescue Committee) held November 7th, 2014 by the U.S. State Department. The full transcript can be found at - http://fpc.state.gov/233836.htm
Ebola Deeply is an impact journalism project founded by Isha Sesay (CNN), Jon Gosier (Appfrica/D8A), Lara Setrakian (News Deeply), James Andrews (True Story), Azeo Fables (News Deeply), and Bahiyah Robinson (Appfrica/D8A).
In this press conference we also unveiled our Mobile Wire service, a solution that greatly simplifies and improves targeting fragmented mobile user audiences in developing countries.
Why the future of African journalism lies in mobile social networksJude Mathurine
Why the digital divide should not be an excuse for African media leaders to ignore the power of social media particular and the Internet in general.
Introduces SMS for Social Networking Systems in Africa.
Impact of Digitalization and Role of Media in Creating NarrativesAmir Jahangir
A presentation at the seminar on Role of Media in Creating Narratives by the Center of Pakistan and International Relations (COPAIR).
The presentation looks at the digital transformation and how it has impacted the consumption patterns and the changing techniques that is required for narrative building in a hybrid and digital world.
About Ebola Deeply - Slides from Foreign Press CenterJon Gosier
Slides from the Interview with Jon Gosier (Ebola Deeply) and Nicole Walden (International Rescue Committee) held November 7th, 2014 by the U.S. State Department. The full transcript can be found at - http://fpc.state.gov/233836.htm
Ebola Deeply is an impact journalism project founded by Isha Sesay (CNN), Jon Gosier (Appfrica/D8A), Lara Setrakian (News Deeply), James Andrews (True Story), Azeo Fables (News Deeply), and Bahiyah Robinson (Appfrica/D8A).
In this press conference we also unveiled our Mobile Wire service, a solution that greatly simplifies and improves targeting fragmented mobile user audiences in developing countries.
My presentation at InterAction's Forum 2014
http://www.interaction.org/forum-2014-workshops#FRI10:45-12:15
The Changing World of Internet Domains: What Every NGO Should Know about the Expanding Internet and What it Means for Your NGO (Room 159A/B)
The workshop is designed for nonprofit decision makers and NGO staff who manage and/or oversee their organization’s web and marketing/communications strategy. This session is geared towards professionals who would be interested in learning more about the upcoming launch of new top-level domains like .NGO and others, and how changes in the Internet landscape and the use of new technologies will impact the way they do fundraising, partnering, branding and marketing. Lastly, it will look at how these changes can help raise awareness for their causes.
Speakers:
Andrew Mack, Principal, AMGlobal Consulting
David Vyorst, ISOC DC Chapter and Co-Founder, Relay Station Digital Strategies
Corey Griffin, Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships at Peace Corps, formerly with Microsoft
Alan Robbins, Partner & Global Head of Membership & Alliances, Devex
This presentation tells you about the various mass media mediums and their importance. It also tells you about releasemyad and the three step booking process.
Presentation made at Unesco workshop for the African J-School Centres of Excellence, in Windhoek Namibia, May 2009. The slideshow motivates why African J-Schools need to mainstream new media in J-School curricula.
My presentation at InterAction's Forum 2014
http://www.interaction.org/forum-2014-workshops#FRI10:45-12:15
The Changing World of Internet Domains: What Every NGO Should Know about the Expanding Internet and What it Means for Your NGO (Room 159A/B)
The workshop is designed for nonprofit decision makers and NGO staff who manage and/or oversee their organization’s web and marketing/communications strategy. This session is geared towards professionals who would be interested in learning more about the upcoming launch of new top-level domains like .NGO and others, and how changes in the Internet landscape and the use of new technologies will impact the way they do fundraising, partnering, branding and marketing. Lastly, it will look at how these changes can help raise awareness for their causes.
Speakers:
Andrew Mack, Principal, AMGlobal Consulting
David Vyorst, ISOC DC Chapter and Co-Founder, Relay Station Digital Strategies
Corey Griffin, Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships at Peace Corps, formerly with Microsoft
Alan Robbins, Partner & Global Head of Membership & Alliances, Devex
This presentation tells you about the various mass media mediums and their importance. It also tells you about releasemyad and the three step booking process.
Presentation made at Unesco workshop for the African J-School Centres of Excellence, in Windhoek Namibia, May 2009. The slideshow motivates why African J-Schools need to mainstream new media in J-School curricula.
This presentation was created for Chris Hani District in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, to explore possible uses of social media in the pursuit of the Local Government Turn Around Strategy.
Africa continues to face the challenge of Digital Exclusion and with the world gradually shifting to the 4th Industrial Revolution, Africa needs to capitalise on Digital Inclusion or be left behind. Digital Inclusion proves to be too demanding for Africa with its lack of ICT Infrastructure to support it.
What if you could provide the power of the Internet to everyone, regardless of their economic or social status? Brastorne aims to disrupt economic inequalities as it continues to expand its solutions across Africa.
Media, Internet and Social Media Landscape in Sub-Saharan AfricaRussell Southwood
A presentation based on a large market research study on media, Internet and social media in Sub-Saharan Africa. The four reports from this study can be downloaded for free by going to www.balancingact-africa.com Look in the right hand column and click on the cover of the report/s you want to download.
mBillionth Award is a dedicated platform to explore the latent potential of mobile sector across South Asia; Media phones/mobile communication devices are widely regarded as the “fourth screen” in the market after the cinema, TV and PC. The mBillionth Award is about recognising and felicitating best and innovative mobile content application and service delivery. It is to recognize best content services providing value and worth to mobile applications. [Digital Empowerment Foundation]
Recently on my visit to meet the remainder of my team in San Fransisco, I presented an update on the digital landscape in Australia. It was a brilliant exercise and a great opportunity for everyone to share their thoughts, qualms and questions on the subject.
A presentation on media trends globally and locally in Sri Lanka and how they should influence the organisational development of media training institutions in Sri Lanka.
Converged Newsrooms: A Case Study from West Africa"Penplusbytes
Converged Newsrooms: A CaseStudy from West Africa" The 2008 Africa Media Leadership Conference: “Doing Digital Media in Africa: Prospects, Promises and Problems”.May 24 to 27, Kampala’s Imperial Royale Hotel,Uganda
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
1. Cell phone news and online
newspapers:
a transition to personalized, inexpensive news and
information on mobile phones: some South
African experiences and experiments
Harry Dugmore
MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communications
Knight News Challenge Iindaba Ziyafika (‘the news is coming’)
project coordinator
School of Journalism and Media Studies
Rhodes University, South Africa
2. • Very low but rapidly improving broadband access,
doubling almost annually off a low base
• Rapid uptake of cell phones. Almost 100% family
access to cell phones in South Africa.
• Rapidly growing ability of phones to access mobile
web, phones are getting smarter, faster.
• But hugely expensive in a poor continent and costs
not coming down as fast or far as needed
• Low media and journalism density.
• USG input, and pared down and cheap outputs still
beats fast and richly featured outputs and
professional content in the news and info space
Core challenge is that we are (like everyone)
operating in a fast moving techno-social flux
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. Rapid uptake of cell phones. Almost 100% family
access to cell phones in SA
12. Low media density and the related problem of
low numbers of journalists
13.
14. A big set of questions:
How to help create
‘informed, engaged communities’
in often undemocratic and
resource poor contexts,
with low levels of expensive, slow
broadband, and still make money
(or at least breakeven!)?
15. Induce and publish more and more audience
generated input, and create low bandwidth
and cheap mobile outputs (rather than
100% professional produced fast and
richly featured outputs)
Solutions in three areas:
1.Train citizen journalists, offer incentives and use
more of their journalism.
2.Use SMS/texts and Instant Messaging to supply
news and information.
3.Embracing low cost social media as critical to
the ‘news will find me’ culture
36. • Embrace user
generated input
and provide
training, editing,
and even some
cash incentives.
• Shift to
mobile/web
news first and
print second
strategies.
• Get content in
and out through
multiple, mobile
friendly
platforms -- and
37. Thank you!
Professor. Harry Dugmore
MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communications
School of Journalism and Media Studies
Rhodes University
Grahamstown
South Africa
email: H.Dugmore@ru.ac.za
(w) (27) 046-603-7136
cell: (27) 082-885-7537
hardug@iafrica.com
Skype address: harrydugmore
Editor's Notes
This slide is from telegeograhy.com. As you can see, Africa has been poorly connected the rest of the world. This, coupled with poor internal connectivity, means the new technology has a long way to go to reach its potential in Africa.These are very thin ‘pipes’ even compared to South America for example.
This slide is create by Steven Song, one of South Africa’s foremost expert on connectivity and other digital/mobile phone issues. See
http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/
But this year, all this is starting to change. African connectivity is going to improve 400 TIMES by the end of 2012, and even this year will take a giant leap. That thin black line is what we’ve had to make do with so far.
So democracy is ON THE MARCH, and our connectivity is starting to change. What does this mean for NEW MEDIA, for DEEPENING DEMOCRACY?
This graphic comes from World Wide Worx, South Africa’s premier internet research company. http://www.worldwideworx.com/archives/204
Cell phone change everything! Almost ½ of all African now have cell phones, and by 2012, it is predicted that almost 2/3 of adults in Africa will have them. Take Ghana – it does NOT have much broadband connectivity, or even fixed phone lines. In fact it has fewer than 400,000 fixed lines in 2008. But mobile phone users rose from 215,000 in 2001 to 7.6 million by the end of December 2007.
http://www.opera.com/smw/2009/11/#chart_data
Mobile phones now represent around 90% of all telephone lines in Africa. The subscriber base is still growing at around 50% per year, but the growth curves are beginning to flatten in the continent’s more mature markets, forcing operators to compete more aggressively on price, quality of service and by introducing new services. However, enormous further potential remains, with overall market penetration standing at little more than 30% for the CONTINENT as a whole.
http://whiteafrican.com/
This slide is sourced by from a PowerPoint Presentation by Erik Hersman, Big Surprises, Small packages. http://www.slideshare.net/whiteafrican/mobile-phones-in-africa-picnic-08-presentation
See Erik’s website: http://whiteafrican.com/
African Media Development: Research Summary Report http://mediadevelopmentresearch.com/?p=170
USA has a working journalists for every 4600 Dense (1-15,000): South Africa had the most dense population per journalists with one journalist for every 1,300 citizens. With the exception of Nigeria, the other dense countries were in excess of 10,000 citizens per journalist. Medium (15-30,000): Comprising almost half of the countries surveyed, these medium density countries clustered around that of Cameroon (18,350) with Uganda (27,820) at the upper end of the category .Sparse (30,000+): Less than 20% of the surveyed countries, these countries ranged from those slightly in excess of 30,000 (Zimbabwe, Mozambique) to Ethiopia’s marked distance from others with only one journalist for every 99,000 habitants. AMDI report: summary of research finding. The USA has about 50,000 journalists, 17 journalists per 100,000 people. That might have changed – those are 2007 figures, but Robert Picard suggests, it is probably still under 1 to 20. see
http://themediabusiness.blogspot.com/2009/03/overblown-journalist-employment-crisis.html
This democracy map is from FREEDOM HOUSE for 2008/9. Overlaid on a slide from Erik Hersman found at: http://www.slideshare.net/whiteafrican/mobile-phones-in-africa-picnic-08-presentation
What do we mean by this PARTIAL democracy. Just look at these three countries: why are they NOT regarded as democracies. What about Angola – it now has election, 8 parties stood, and yes, the MPLA gained 82% of the vote, and outspend the opposition by ore 100 times combined, and controlled all the media, but they were the first ‘real elections’ since 1992. But they are widely regarded as a shame. But Kenya and Nigeria? Why are they not ‘green”?
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/harry_dugmore/
http://whiteafrican.com/
See.www.MXIt.com
This snapshot is from Opera Mini’s monthly State of the mobile web stats: http://www.opera.com/smw/
This selection was made by Rhodes colleague. Jude Mathurine from:
http://www.slideshare.net/judem1/why-the-future-of-african-journalism-lies-in-mobile-social-networks
This snapshot is from Opera Mini’s monthly State of the mobile web stats: http://www.opera.com/smw/
This selection was made by Rhodes colleague. Jude Mathurine from:
http://www.slideshare.net/judem1/why-the-future-of-african-journalism-lies-in-mobile-social-networks
This is a screen shot fro NIKA. Please see http://netserv.ict.ru.ac.za/tracs/nikatrac/roadmap