FSCA Regional Workshop in Monrovia

Almost ready to the start of the second FSCA Regional Workshop here in Monrovia, Liberia. During the third day I will spend the morning introducing Communication for Development and Knowledge Sharing to the tens of people working in the seven countries (Senegal, The Gambia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau) involved in the projects [...]

Marketing of mobile telephony in Tanzania

Back from my trip in Tanzania I have to show an interesting collection of images about marketing of mobile telephony around the country. As you can see they are pretty aggressive!
From cars to charts

From walls to houses

From billboards to shops

And they have clients of every age! 

I found my place in Tanzania

Isn’t it great?
The Internet cafe in Njombe in Tanzania is called TUPO: Time to Unite People Online.
This is my place!!!

Today is MandelaDay

Today is Mandela Day.
Make your imprint!

Integration of radio and video

Some interesting ideas from Riccardo Del Castello on how he sees the integration between radio and video.

2009 AMARC Pan African Conference: the results

The results of the election of 4th AMARC Pan African Conference held in Abidjan the 27-30th April 2009.

The new Board of Directors is composed by (from left to the right):

Benilde Nhalevilo: Women Representative from Eastern and Southern Africa (FORCOM) Mozambique
Kofy Larweh: Training officer, (GCRN) Ghana
Zara Yacoub: Institutional development, (DJA FM) Tchad
Franklin Huizies: Vice-president from Eastern [...]

4th AMARC Pan African Conference Starts

The 4th AMARC Pan African Conference is just started and immediately appeared to be a very useful occasion to get in touch with Radio broadcasters here in Abidjan. What’s better to spend time around a table talking, and most of all, listening to people involved everyday in radio broadcasting?

Thanks to a very good wifi access, [...]

4th AMARC Pan African Conference

I’m very happy to participate to the AMARC Africa’s 4th Pan African Conference!
At the Conference, AMARC will gather its members, community radio stakeholders and relevant partner organizations to discuss the challenges of community radio in Africa. In his invitation, Marcelo Solervicens, Secretary General of AMARC, is eager to stimulate further collaboration between the major partners.
In [...]

Numbers of the world of mobile phones

A very useful summary of the International Telecommunications Union’s 2009 edition of  Measuring the Information Society – The ICT Development Index (PDF, 1.53MB) has been published by Antonella Pastore on the blog of the ICT-Km Program.
A very interesting question comes out of the analysis: “is this the end of the Web as we know it?“
The [...]

\o/ FrontLineSMS new release

kiwanja is releasing a new version of its famous software FrontLineSMS, the leading SMS management platform. Now the software allows users to manage forms to collect and share data:

You can read more on afromusing, an interesting blog on innovation, technology and beyond or on Ken’s blog.

Emergency in Madagascar – full coverage on twitter

Madagascar is living a very delicate period but unfortunately the press is not covering the events almost at all. Italian newspapers do not even write about it, spanish neither and while the french Le Monde has few lines. BBC is reporting with few articles but a continuous reporting can be done via twitter. Here [...]

Using Radios to support Rural Communication

During the Share Fair 09, I had the pleasure to facilitate an interesting session called  “Using Radios to support Rural Communication“. The session was about three main applications of radio in rural development contexts:

Rural and Community Radio,
Educational Radio, and
Radio for promoting good farming practices.

The Session, followed by some 20 people, proposed a first round of [...]

Ghana just voted with twitter monitoring

Ghana just voted yesterday for the Presidential Elections and many observers followed the elections using twitter. Read what happened on Global Voices.

Who is using mobile phones for development – part 2

As the online Forum on “Mobile Telephony in rural areas” is getting closer, the list of projects using mobile is getting longer and longer. I have to thanks the participants to the KM4Dev list who have been proposing examples of application they were aware of. Let’s see what’s new around the table:
mDevelopment

Launched in the late [...]

“The role of Radio” Workshop – DAY 3

The third and final day was crucial as well. The main task was to put together bits and pieces and design the future scenario for this large partnership on rural radio.
The day before, each group had chances to meet and discuss. Not so much as we hoped at the beginning but enough thanks to all [...]