Ansbert Ngurumo on blogging in Kiswahili
Ansbert Ngurumo on 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 views that one of the best solutions to reducing the digital divide is a translation of software and […]
Daudi Were on Blogging and Democracy
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.
Ndesanjo Macha keynote at Digital Citizens Indaba 2007
<Professor Fackson Banda opened the 2007 Digital Citizen Indaba. This is turning out to be an annual blogging conference. He welcomed everyone and introduced the keynote speaker, Ndesanjo Macha. Ndesanjo is a blogger, journalist, lawyer and digital activist. He is the sub-Saharan Africa editor of Global Voices. He runs Jikomboe, a Kiswahili blog, and Digital […]
Rober Cialdini's Weapons of Influence
Ever heard of the Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Dr Robert Cialdini? This is one of the most important business books ever written for leaders and people in sales and marketing. This is a book to read once a year to remind if yourself how to build authority and influence because it’s not common […]
Digital Citizens Indaba 2007 opens this Sunday
Tomorrow I will be flying to Port Elizabeth for the 2nd time in just under a month. This flight has been booked by the gracious hosts from the Journalism and Media Studies department at Rhodes University, who are the organisers of this conference as well as the annual Highway Africa conference. Sadly, I will not […]