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		<title>‘Let traditional media step down from the mounted frame’</title>
		<link>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=1264</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sara_meha</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How does the onset of online media impact political and journalistic worlds? A media discussion on the euphoria of new media. By Sarah Bakata and Meha Mathur.
With 64 countries facing elections in the year 2009, and with the US elections in late 2008 having set a precedent in the use of digital and online media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future is &#8216;Mobile&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=431</link>
		<comments>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=431#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ratemo</dc:creator>
		
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A study analyses a landslide of mobile usage in the developing world. To businesses, these figures present an ideal BoP model. With titanic shift in the number of mobile users in the South, ignore the data at your own risk.
According to a study by Internews Europe, titled ‘The Promise of Ubiquity-Mobile as a Media Platform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embrace technology, or else…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ratemo</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Democracy in Africa]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Scola]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Prof Harry Dugmore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no denying it, and studies have confirmed, that the new media is unstoppable, and journalists and media houses, who cannot adjust to the online onslaught will be pushed into oblivion. 
“In the most developed countries in the world journalists are most expected to be multi-skilled and be able to blog, podcast and work on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prof. Harry Dugmore on the power of citizen journalism</title>
		<link>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=571</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ratemo</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Democracy in Africa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Harry Dugmore]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Rhodes University]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;if you want to keep your job as a journalist, you will have to be much more tech-savvy and willing to work in a multi-skilled way.”- Professor Harry Dugmore.
A well-known media figure, Professor Harry Dugmore (MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communication at the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies) aims to change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy Scola on politics in the new media era</title>
		<link>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=232</link>
		<comments>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=232#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ratemo</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Scola]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Even in Africa, which lags behind in connectivity as compared to the western world, the Internet and cell phones are taking the centre-stage in social networking&#8230; it would be dangerous for politicians to ignore new media.&#8221;- Nancy Scola.
Nancy Scola gave a keynote speech on how technology played a role in the 2008 US presidential elections. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Link between democracy, internet access&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=1218</link>
		<comments>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=1218#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sara_meha</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SMS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Conference]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Keynote speakers Nancy Scola and Prof Harry Dugmore demonstrate the success of online media in impacting elections in two geographically and economically removed regions of the world, the US and Africa. By Meha Mathur and Sarah Bakata
The Barack Obama campaign in 2008, was phenomenal for navigating the online media landscape, and for establishing direct relationship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multimedia</title>
		<link>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=1275</link>
		<comments>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=1275#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviews with speakers and guests, multimedia slideshows, photos, videos and audios you will get after the click.
Slideshow

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A conference roundup by Joseph Kafumbe and Thuy Nguyen:
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Nancy Scola&#8217;s keynote speech:
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		<title>Schedule- find out what will happen on 19th March</title>
		<link>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=830</link>
		<comments>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=830#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mallimbopaul</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[About the Event]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Conference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Programme outline for the seminar &#8216;Election Times: Harnessing the Power of New Media&#8217; 09:30 a.m.
Registration and Coffee
10:00 a.m.
Opening Session
Welcome
Dr. Roland Gerschermann
Managing Director of
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH
Germany
Dr. Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius
Managing Director of InWEnt –
Capacity Building International,
Germany
Opening Address
Erich Stather
State Secretary
at the Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Germany
10:30 a.m.
Keynotes
Nancy Scola
Associate Editor of the award-winning online publication
TechPresident
Lecturer on new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election violence hatched in the Kenyan blogosphere</title>
		<link>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=210</link>
		<comments>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=210#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Case Studies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hate speech]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SMS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Sending SMSs or photos over the Internet is normal. However, given a political spin, hate  text messages or photos can provoke ethnic violence. This is exactly what happened in Kenya.
In everyday life, people hardly think of the gadgets they use to keep in touch with family and friends. They take them for granted because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital victory vs. digital rigging in Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=87</link>
		<comments>http://2009.inwent-iij-lab.org/?p=87#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mahadi754</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Case Studies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tired of democratic uncertainties and unstable governments, the citizens of Bangladesh used the new media to great effect in the 2008 elections. How did a small instrument such as the mobile phone change the political fortune of the country?
December 29, 2008, ushered in a new chapter in the history of Bangladesh, when the nation saw [...]]]></description>
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