Kwami Ahiabenu,II Knowledge Chief

How can African Traditional Media can tap into new Social media and blogs Dave Duarte , leading South African Blogger outline 1. Online attention economy 2. Social media and blogs 3. Value Creations in the WWW( Wild Wide World) If every thing is free online, what is not free, according to Dave a. Trust b. Brand c. Authenticity He suggested that we are living in the area of the new 4ps of 1. peer to peer 2. participation 3. predictive modeling 4. personalization He said the elements value creation WWW are - Revelation - Plasticity - Aggregation POINTERS TO TWO SITES MUTI Muti is a community site, dedicated to African content, which is driven by users posting interesting links which are then rated and discussed by others. AMATOMU Amatomu www.amatomu.com/ is a blog search engine and article aggregator, focusing on blogs published in South Africa. CONCLUSION the more you share, the more you win

Accessing Software from Open Source - the case of Nika Content Management System Prof Guy Berger In his discussion, he took a the following key areas : 1. The scope of CMS 2. Tech must be slave not the master 3. Open Source 4. NIKA 5. Lessons 6. Conclusion CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS)SCOPE Six dimensions of CMS 1. "content" platform agnostic, "media assets" 2. Databased - searchable, multi- publish 3. A- Z all the work flow not only publishing to the web component which is T-Z 4. Knowledge Management - generation, coding, refinement 5. DRM - Digital Right Management - capital assets 6. EM - Enterprise Management including Customer Management System STARTING YOUR CMS You can start small but it is important to have a vision and have the big picture in mind at the outset TECH MUST BE THE SLAVE NOT THE MASTER Your strategy must drive your CMS not technology driven the technology can do almost every thing but you have to drive it in order to achieve your goal in im...

Prof Guy Berger on DIGITAL LITERACY FOR AFRICAN NEWSROOM How do you find information which is useful for your newsroom ? the presentation addressed this question by looking at * Monitor hot topics 1 Do the web a. Google alerts b. Web TAB c. RSS - via your browser - via email RSS FWD www.rssfwd.com/ - via dedicated RSS reader www.newsgator.com www.netvibes.com Google Reader when an old site does not have RSS, then you can make use of a convertor for example, www.feedlity.com 2. Yahoo pipes filter, aggregate content and mash up as well http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ www.feedity.com/ use of online translation to manage the feed as well for other languages 3.online communities :communities of interest joining a communities of interest, with like minded and provides information important for you technorati www.technorati.com/ face book community of interest social booking www.del.icio.us.com find useful info from the rubbish on the web so go out and multiple

Africa media leadership conference 2008 opens with opening addresses by Francis Mdlongwa, , Director of Rhodes University Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership, South Africa and Frank Windeck, Director of KAS Sub-Sahara Africa Media Porgramme, South Africa Key Note by Prof, Guy Berger, Head of Rhodes University's School of Journalism and Media Studies, South Africa on the changing landscape of the media online

  The Ministry of Communications in conjunction with the ICT Community organised the second national ICT Awards 2008 at the Accra International Conference Centre. It was a night of celebration, excellence and innovation. The awards ceremony was attended by 400 persons from the ICT community, business, academia and industry in the presence of dignitaries including His Excellency President John Agyekum Kuffour (represented by Hon Kan Dapaah, MP, Minister of Defence), the Hon Deputy Minister of Communications, Frederick Opare-Ansah, Hon Kojo Armah, MP and chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee and Mr. Yoofi Grant of Databank chaired the awards night programme.   In a speech read on his behalf, His Excellency The President John Agyekum Kuffour said, " I am proud of our performances in the sector as a nation and I am even proud of the excellence that some Ghanaians have exhibited in the sector". The performances of the Ghanaian hardware and software engineer...

President John Agyekum Kufuor on Saturday said the healthy partnership between the private sector and Government was yielding positive strides in the development of Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and services in the country. "We have seen that ICT brings us together, it expands and improves education and agricultural production, helps in health delivery and provides empowerment especially for the girl child," President Kufuor noted in a speech read for him by Mr Albert Kan Dapaah, Minister for Defence at the second ICT awards night in Accra. He said government would continue to provide an enabling environment to support the activities of all communications service providers to ensure that citizens are not denied the benefits of technology no matter their location. Dr Benjamin Aggrey Ntim, Minister of Communication, said the objective of this year's award was to create greater awareness of the role of ICT in the public services and the dev...

  Press Release JOHANNESBURG , May 15 – Leaders of Africa's news media meet in Uganda in a week's time for an annual summit focusing on how the continent is embracing new media technologies to serve the changing needs and interests of their customers.   The senior editors and CEOs of media firms stretching from South Africa, Namibia and Swaziland in the south to Kenya and Ethiopia in the north and from Senegal and the Ivory Coast in the west will meet in Kampala for three days from May 25 for their Africa Media Leadership Conference.   The conference is co-hosted by Rhodes University's Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership ( www.spiml.co.za/www.spiml.com ) in South Africa and Germany's Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation ( www.kas.de /).   "This year's conference is looking at a range of digital media platforms that have emerged and continue to emerge around the world and the challenges that face media companies in Africa in adopt...

May 24-27: Imperial Royale Hotel,            Kampala, Uganda Saturday, May 24: Arrival of delegates (throughout the day) 9pm: Dinner for delegates hosted by KAS Uganda           Welcome Remarks: Yusuf Kiranda, Uganda KAS Programme Officer      Sunday, May 25: 9.30 am: Welcome Remarks: Francis Mdlongwa, Director of Rhodes University's Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership, South Africa   9.45 am: Welcome Remarks: Frank Windeck, Director of KAS Sub-Sahara Africa Media Programme, South Africa   10 am: Peter Mwaura, leading East African journalist, media consultant and university journalism lecturer, former editor-in-chief of several international and regional media: "Africa's Rapidly Changing Media Landscape: Where And How Do We Go From Here?"   10.30-10.45 am: Coffee/Tea Break   Session Chair: Felicity Duncan 10.45 am: Con...

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The public voting for the Second National ICT Awards 2008 to be held on Saturday May 17, 2008 as the world celebrates World Telecommunications Day and Information Society Day has opened. The awards is being organized by Ministry of Communications and Ghana's ICT industry stakeholders. Members of the general public can vote either by going to www.ghanaictawards. com or send the full name of their choice to 1419(all mobile networks in Ghana) via SMS until 13th May 2008. - Hide quoted text - The categories opened for public voting are as follows: 1. ICT PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR · NII NARKU QUAYNOR · ENGR MRS FLORENCE SERIKI · AKWASI PIANIM OSEI · DR HARRIET SOMUAH · SAQIB NAZIR · SAMUEL QUARSHIE 2. TELECOM COMPANY OF THE YEAR · TIGO · MTN · KASAPA · ONE TOUCH 3. TOP CAFÉ OF THE YEAR · SMART INTERNET & MULTIMEDIA · CYBERCITY INTERNET 4. TOP ICT TRAINNING/INSTITUTI ON · KNUST COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT · IPMC · NIIT · KiNET · DZODZE CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTRE The winners from the sec...

2 ND NATIONAL ICT AWARDS 2008 – CELEBRATIONS, EXCELLENCE, INNOVATION   DATE: 17 TH MAY SATURDAY 2008 ( World Telecommunication and Information Society Day   VENUE: ACCRA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER   TIME: 19:00 PROMPT   DRESS: FORMAL/TRADITIONAL     TO RESERVE A SEAT OR PURCHASE A TICKET TICKET COST: 25 GH CEDIS ONLY   CONTACT Front Desk, Busy Internet, Ring Road Accra, Tel : 021-258528 Mr. Desmond Boateng, MOC,   021-685608 Festus William – 0244-386042 Front desk, Ghana Multimedia Centre, High Street, Accra 021-689580   E-MAIL ghanaictawards@gmail.com   Website:   www.ghanaictawards.com   COME AND ENJOY BYTES OF FUN

Long time since I posted to this blog busy busy well, finished up with two projects 1. successfully completed an online course in "How to Build a Web-Based Course" from University of Toronto, it was very difficult since I was always pressed for time during this course. Glad that I pulled it through 2. Contributed the Ghana section on a study by PANOS entitled “RADIOS & ICTs IN WEST AFRICA: CONNECTIVITY AND USES- Ghana study” New projects writing two conference papers 1. delivering a paper on Designing and facilitating interactive online course using Web 2.0 tools at the 3rd International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training will take place from May 28 to 30, 2008 in Accra during the themed session on : Designing and delivering e-learning 2. the two paper is "Converged Newsrooms: A Case Study from West Africa". at the 2008 Africa Media Leadership Conference to be held in Kampala, Uganda, from May 25 to 28. theme "Doing Digital Medi...