International lawmakers and policymakers opened talks Monday morning to formulate recommendations on Africa for the G8 summit. More...
Read more!6/06/2005
G8 SUMMIT 2005
I will be posting a lot of information and articles about the G8 Summit that takes place from 6-8 July in Scotland. This summit will specifically focus on Africa. Right now I am posting information and links about the summit on my Kiswahili blog for Kiswahili speakers in Africa and the Diaspora.
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6/05/2005
Tanzania Education Website
I just came across this informative website. This is one of their projects.
Read more!My Interview on Radio France Internationale
I just finished doing an interview with RFI (Radio France Internationale's English service) about multilingual cyberspace. Below are instructions and time from the person I spoke with for those who want to follow. It will be on air/internet tomorrow.
"You go to http://www.rfi.fr/, then click in the top left-hand corner where it says "english". Then when you are on that page, all the programmes are on the right-hand side. The interview with be broadcast on one of the first four programmes ("English to Africa" 04.00 GMT, 05.00 GMT, 06.00GMT, 07.00GMT). Monday's programme will stay online for 24 hours after it is broadcast, and then gets replaced by Tuesday's show.
The programmes always start with the news, and then at around 15 minutes past the hour there is a section where we broadcast interviews."
Zuckerman interviews Sokari of Black Looks
Here is the interview that Ethan Zuckerman conducted with Sokari Ekine of Black Looks and Afrotecnik.
Read more!6/03/2005
Kiswahili version of Firefox
After launching of the first ever Kiswahili version of OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 (Jambo OpenOffice.org 1.1.3) , the klnX Team has started the localization of a Free and Open Source web browser called Firefox 1.0.1. Here.
Read more!5/31/2005
Rip, Remix, Sample, Reuse the BBC...do you have 68 years to spare?
Paula LeDieu, the former Joint Director of BBC Creative Archive, spoke on the first day of the Commons-sense conference in South Africa about the BBC initiative to provide access to public service audio and video archives to the British public to rip, mix, re-use, and share the BBC (not for commercial purposes). The project, modelled after the Creative Commons, was launched in 2004. The Creative Commons model, which was the theme of the conference, proposes a flexible and customisable rights management. So instead of the strict "all rights reserved," individuals and organizations can opt for "some rights reserved," or "no rights reserved."
LeDieu told conference participants that to access all their archived materials, one needs to spend 68 years of non-stop video watching!
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5/30/2005
VIDEOS FROM THE COMMONS-SENSE CONFERENCE
Here is a video gallery from the Commons-Sense conference. The videos were taken by students and staff of the New Media Lab.
Read more!WATCH MY INTERVIEW WITH NEW MEDIA LAB SOUTH AFRICA
I arrived last night after a long, and tiring flight from Egoli/Jozi (Johannersburg) where I was attending the Commons-Sense conference. I was interviewed by Rhodes university's New Media Lab. Watch the video here.
Read more!5/27/2005
A STORY ABOUT KENYAN BLOGOSPHERE ON OPEN SOURCE RADIO
I just opened the email from Kenya Unlimited about a show on Kenyan bloggers on Open Source Radio next week.
I am still at the commons-sense conference. This morning there was a very moving panel on Blogging the Commons. I am overwhelmed. Dont click...as I promised I will post detailed information about all these panels, the conversations, and discussions. Lots of ideas and information to chew.
5/26/2005
LIVE BLOGGING FROM THE COMMONS-SENSE CONFERENCE
A team of 15 students and two staff members from the New Media Lab at the School of Journalism and Media Studies (Rhodes university) are live-blogging from the conference. Amazing! Follow the conference here.
5/25/2005
Hello from Commons-sense conference
I am in attending the Commons-Sense conference in Egoli (the Zulu name for Johannersburg), South Africa. The conference started yesterday and ends tommorow. I bloged about it some weeks ago while in the US. I will post more detailed information about the conversations taking place around here about Intellectual Property (IP) in Africa in the information age. We had some very interesting speakers yesterday. One of them was the father of "free culture" and the founder of the Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig. The woman behind Creative Commons South Africa, Heather Ford spoke about the South African creative commons initiative. Yesterday was the official launching of Creative Commons (South Afica). I will blog in depth about the conference when I get back to the US. A lot of interesting stories and projects. This conference is organized by Wits university, Creative Commons (South Africa), and the Link center.
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5/18/2005
CREATIVE COMMONS AND SOUTHERN AFRICAN ORGANISATIONS
The Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT), in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), is hosting a Thetha forum on Tuesday, 24 May 2005, to discuss whether Southern African organisations should use Creative Commons to licence the information that they produce. More...
Read more!5/17/2005
BLOGS IN ETHNIC LANGUAGES (AFRICA)
My friend Mokhtar, who teaches Arabic at the School for International Training, has started blogging in Tamazeight. Mokhtar is a storyteller. He has been telling stories orally and in print media. Now he goes digital. There is also a Shona blog and Chagga (which happens to be my language) blog from Texas.
Read more!5/13/2005
5/08/2005
5/02/2005
BISHARAT: A LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE
Bisharat focuses on research, advocacy, and networking relating to use of African languages in software and web content
Read more!CONFERENCE ON MULTILINGUALISM IN CYBERSPACE
The conference on “Multilingualism for Cultural Diversity and Participation of All in Cyberspace” is taking place in Bamako, Mali, on 6 and 7 May 2005. Follow it here. Read the agenda.
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