Early in September, I was a speaker at the 2nd Digital Citizens Indaba. Last year, this conference was immensely valuable to me because it presented an opportunity to meet many of my fellow bloggers from across the African continent. This year me I realised the greater need to teach people how to use blogging to…
It’s been a week since the 2nd annual DCI event in Grahamstown. This event is a sidekick to the much larger and more established conference, Highway Africa. As with all these types of events, it’s layered with good intentions. However, the practical side of it sometimes leaves much room for improvement. The highlights were certainly…
Blog your way to becoming an Expert from Ramon Thomas This is a summary of the talk and presentation that I delivered at the 2nd annual Digital Citizens Indaba on the Marketing and Monetising panel. My fellow presenters were Laurian Clemence and Matthew Buckland. I started out telling the story of how I attended the…
Ansbert Ngurumo spoke about blogging in Kiswahili in the Fractured Identities session of the Digital Citizens Indaba 2007. This was in some respects one of the most inspiring talks for me because it is in sync with my own views that one of the best solutions to reducing the digital divide is a translation of…
My friend Daudi Were spoke in the Fractured Identities session of the 2007 Digital Citizens Indaba. We first met last year at the DCI and also at TED Global in Tanzania. Daudi is currently organising an African Bloggers conference to be held in Kenya in April/June 2007.