Kwami Ahiabenu,II Knowledge Chief

What is podcasting? Kwami Ahiabenu ,II The internet provides us with unlimited opportunities, one interesting example is podcasting which provides content (audio or video) for an audience that wants to listen when they want, where they want, and how they want. Podcasting is the distribution of audio or video files, such as radio programs or music videos, over the Internet for subsequent download on mobile devices and personal computers. A podcast is rich media, such as audio or video, distributed via RSS (Rich Site Summary) or Atom syndication The term podcast can also refer to both the content(video or audio) and the method of delivery. To download files you have two options either you visit Podcasters’ websites for direct download of files or users can subscribe to automatic feeds which deliver new content as and when it is available. It is important to note that a podcast is different from a simple download or real-time streaming . There are a variety of podcasts whic...

The Vice President of the Ghana Journalists Association, GJA, Mr Affail Monney has stressed the need for media organizations in the country to provide their journalists with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support them in increasing their efficiency and introduction to modernity into their operations. He said with the changing times, it was about time that individual media organizations put in greater efforts at going ICT to be abreast with evolving events to be better placed to inform, entertain and educate the public on pertinent issues that will bring about positive change in their lives. Mr Monney said this on Friday at the closing ceremony of a training workshop for a cross section of Journalists in Accra. About 50 selected Journalists from both the private and state media in three batches were trained under the project funded by the Japanese Funds-in Trust (JFIT) in collaboration with UNESCO's International programme for Development of Communication ...

Group One GJA/UNESCO/JFIT COLLABORATION WORKSHOP ON CAPACITY BUILDING IN ICT FOR JOURNALISTS IN GHANA Course Participants Blog Addresses 1.Isabela Gyau Orhin( Public Agenda) http://afri-ghanews.blogspot.com 2. Emmanuel Amoako( Graphic and Instructor) http://recordsagog.blogspot.com 3. Theo Agbam( Ghana Broadcasting Corporation) http://amateurradio-agbam.blogspot.com 4.Dave Agbenu ( Ghanaian Times) www.accraconnection.blogspot.com 5. Lily N Defor ( Ghana Broadcasting Corporation) www.mediainghana.blogspot.com 6. Abu Issa Monnie (Peace FM) www.soccertechniques.blogspot.com 7. Doreen Allotey (Graphic) http://Educategraphic.blogspot.com 8. Zee Adu-Asante (Ghana News Agency- GNA) http://gnacourtzee.blogspot.com 9. Abdulai Mamudu Gariba(Ghana News Agency –GNA) www.gnaportslover.blogspot.com 10. Mathias Tibu (Ghana Institute of Journalism- GIJ) www.ghanatravelwriting.blogspot.com 11. Barbara Maria Gaisie (Ghana Broadcasting Corporation- GBC) http://nationaltv.blogspot.com 12. Ellen Avorgbedor...

Kwami: when did you first create your blog? Remmy: I started blogging after the WSIS preparatory Conference in Accra. Kwami : why create a blog? Remmy : I have this particular need : the ability access to my previous articles electronically online unfortunately, my newspaper does not have an electronic archival system. I saw creating a blog a free way of having my own electronic archival of my past articles Kwami : This is a cool solution, when do you post stories to your blog? Remmy: I usually post stories to my blog after my publication in our newspaper. In this way, I post all articles I have ever written since then. Kwami : what other applications do you put blog to? Remmy: I use content in my blog as background to articles which are similar plus recently I made use of my blog archival in my course work at school ends

At second day of DCI, I spoke to Ethan Zuckerman www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/ on his previous, current work and blogging ++++ Kwami : Tell me last time, I heard about you were at geekcorps www.geekcorps.org/ , what happen since then? Ethan: I left in Sept 2004, the reason being geekcorps merger with IESC http://www.iesc.org/ after this partnership, IESC Geek Corps wanted to focus on doing business with the US government and USAID. This means a change of direction with more focus on countries such Iraq and Afghanistan. The issues the organisation was tackling was no longer important to me so I move on to The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/ethan_zuckerman and currently working on www.globalvoicesonline.org/ issues which are important to me. ++ Kwami : When you were going into the partnership, did you see the risk of drastic changes taking place as mentioned Ethan : well, we saw the risk but we thought we can do a be...

we just finish with breakfast at HOBSON Hall instead of our usual place of Mandela Hall the morning session is about to start this morning the conference holds to look at WE MEDIA what does this mean well Peter Verweji (HU), Matthew Buckland(M & G online) and Tom Johnson ( Inst. for Analytic Journalism) would tell us about WE MEDIA

just found breakfast so going to have it

starts on a cool note, there is no breakfast but we are having internet supply in abundance so i am blogging away

forgive me, I am not structuring my blogging well today hope do not feel disjointed when reading it Chris Roper & Byran Porter(24.com), Juanita Williams (IOL) and Ray Hartley Ray from the Sunday Times of South said that we need to we are still at the begining of blogging movement. what are the characteristics of the new media environment according to Ray, multiprocessing is crucial secondly, the attention span of most audience are now very short half of what is know today was not know 10 yrs ago INFORMATION NAVIGATION is a new literacy which required beyond text and image navigation literacy i find the concept of information navigation interesting, becuase in our current state of so called information overload, you can not survive if you do not have this literacy related to this is the ECONOMIC OF ATTENTION ( Richard A Lanham) i believe here we are talking about how the end user negotiates the information supply and demand landmine BLINK SORRY TOO LATE in this new environment, peo...

Since the organiser of DCI could not still not figure a way of providing internet at the main building that is Rhodes Fine Art building, i have to be moving from back and fro between Fine Art building and Africa Media Matrix, basically catching up with internet at Africa Media Matrix. On one of the my trips back, I heard Web 2 porno (as in pornographic), thinking this was a new buzz word, I was totally wrong the speaker was actually saying Web 2 dot oh is this word web 2 dot zero or web 2 dot oh ( as in the alphabet) ? I walk to Zuckerman's after theis presentation on web 2.0, he confirm that web 2.0 is the american way of combination numbers and alphabet at is web dot oh and nobody was saying web 2 porno of course, the english english would say you it have to be web 2 dot zero hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

just got a mail from contact person at UNESCO Ghana office about the workshop for Ghanaian journalists http://knowledgechief.blogspot.com/2006/08/unescojapan-funds-in-trust-jfit.html starting from 25th September, with this deadline around the corner, I need to finish working on training manuals for this workshop

Ethan Zuckerman, during his keynote gave an overview of blogging as a whole and narrows his presentation to blogging in Africa, you can listen and read about this address at DCI website http://dci.ru.ac.za/blog/?p=22

a two day blogging conference starts at Rhodes University, South Africa from today 14th september to 15 september check at the conference blog at http://dci.ru.ac.za/blog/ the venue of the conference is the Fine Art Building, unfortunately does not have Internet something to do with the "conference WIFI" which provides access to conference delegates on the rhodes network is not working in the particular building in order for blogging conference delegates to get access in the fine Art building, they must be given access to "rhodes WIFI" which is not possible we see how this precious asset = internet is made available in the Fine Art Building so I am sitting at Africa Media Matrix, the new home of Rhodes Journalism and Media Studies department blogging instead of sitting in the opening ceremony though I would walk over there soon

over 400 journalists from all over africa are attending a three day conference at highway africa SEE STORY BELLOW 12 September 2006 (AfricaNews/ HANA ) - More than 500 delegates from 42 countries have gathered in Grahamstown, South Africa, for the 10th Highway Africa conference, the biggest ICT conference in Africa.The conference will assess the state of African media, particularly with regards to harnessing new technologies as well as the crucial role that new media has played in democracy and development. This year's gathering of media practitioners, private companies and NGOs will no doubt be a reflection and celebration of the past ten years and a springboard for the future of the organisation.Addressing the delegates, director of Highway Africa Chris Kabwato said it was possible for African journalists to shatter the myths that dictate how issues should be covered and represented through the media."Let us dare to challenge the economic policies and issues of democracy in ...

You have a lot about Nigeria, especially the interesting Lagos on my way from Lagos island to the Lagos Murtal Muhammed International Airport http://www.wordtravels.com/Airports/Nigeria/Lagos+M+Muhammed+Airport I decided to buy airtime for my vmobile I accidently gave this guy 1000 naira instead of 100 naira plus 400 naira so instead 500 naira, he had 1400 naira, something to about mistakenly notes which you are not familar this great guy with a kind heart chase my car after some few metres and return the 1000 naira note and got a 100 naira notes back from me great, still there is kindness in lagos

By Engr. Ernest C. A. Ndukwe FNSE, OFR Executive Vice Chairman Nigerian Communications Commission Voice Over Internet Protocol is a generic term used for the conveyance of voice, fax and related services, partially or wholly over packet-switched, IP based networks. According to the Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, Michael Powel, VoIP “is probably the most significant paradigm shift in the entire history of modern communications, since the invention of the telephone.” VoIP is one example of a cross-sector convergence technology that utilizes packet-switched networks (often, the Internet) to make voice telephone calls. By sharing bandwidth with other data or Internet applications, VoIP Providers offer these telephone calls at often cheaper rates than conventional telephony. The emergence of voice over packet switches VoIP services began to be offered in direct competition to public switched service between the mid-1990s and the peak of the “dotcom bubble” in 2000, ...

Muson Centre, Lagos, 21-23 August 2006 PRESENTATIONS (Main conference 21-22 August 2006) DAY 1 - Monday 21 August 2pm Conference Opening Welcome Remarks by Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem, President of KNOWLEDGE MEDIA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (publishers of IT Edge/www.itedgenews.com). Welcome Speech & Official Opening Chief Cornelius Adebayo, Minister of Communications, Nigeria Keynote 1: Regulatory challenges and achievements in the VoIP arena Eng Ernest Ndukwe, Vice-Chairman/CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission Keynote 2: VoIP as part of an ISP’s survival strategy Eng Sam Adeleke, President, ISP Association of Nigeria (ISPAN) Keynote 3: How Nigeria’s communication companies have responded to the challenges and opportunities created by VoIP Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem, President of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) 4pm Refreshment Break Keynote 4: The impact of VoIP on African voice markets Russell Southwood, CEO, Balancing Act looks at how VoIP impacts on voice market...

currently in Lagos for the African VoIP forum at the muson centre with delegates from Africa, Europe and USA

________________________________________ New initiative to provide computers for all in Ghana A new enterprise between the Ghana government and multinational computer microchip maker Intel, is expected to bring affordable computer ownership within reach of thousands of Ghana households and small business owners over the next three years. A range of inexpensive, brand new computers, supplied with access to the internet, will go a long way towards improving the level of computer literacy amongst the nation’s workforce and will help students with home study as well as improving their computing skills in readiness for employment. And to make it easy for salaried workers to buy the package, an installment payment plan will be available through their employer or trade association. A new partnership between computer re-sellers, internet service providers and banks was inaugurated at a workshop for potential stakeholders and beneficiaries of the project held in Accra. At the workshop, over 150...

By Kwami Ahiabenu,II Introduction The internet is growing in bounds and leaps since it inception in 1969 and by 1996 the word "Internet" assumed widespread public use. It quite obvious that the Internet is undergoing tremendous evolution and this is reflected in the numerous new technologies and concepts contributing to this progression. So are we on the path of development a “new internet” which would replace our good “old internet”? This is a billion dollar question which we must strive to answer because this would bring us closer to translating the potential of the “new internet” into reality. If there is any new word which brings this subject mater into a very sharp focus it would be Web 2.0. How did Web 2.O begin? It beginnings is quite easily traceable to a conference brainstorming session in 2003 toward the end of the dotcom depression, between Tim O'Reilly the founder of O’Reilly Media and Dale Dougherty, web pioneer. Mr. Dougherty dropped the term “Web 2.0” as...