Comments on: Mobile Phone Reporting in Africa

By: Corelio stuurt journalisten op pad met digitale camera — Fotografie Serge Van Cauwenbergh

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:38:16 +0000

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By: Post by ME!

Post by ME! — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:47:59 +0000

There is already a mobile application out there for Citizen Journalism.
It is done by a small Canadian startup called Celltrigen Inc.
Their app is location enabled mobile citizen journalism.
Available on most phones already.

Check it out at http://www.postbyme.com

Some users in South Africa and surrounding countries are already using it.

By: Viaggi Africa

Viaggi Africa — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:11:20 +0000

I’m used to travel in Wes Africa and I know that things are really different.
In Togo, Mali, Ghana you are quite sure that it will be easy to comunicate with your cell phone.

I travalled, during last February, in Guinea Bissau and Guinea Conakry and the situation was really hard. I used a satellite phone and I could use my mobile only in the cities.

By: Global Voices amin´ny teny malagasy » Afirika: Tatibaovao amin’ny alalan’ny finday

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:13:02 +0000

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By: Global Voices Online » Africa: Mobile reporting

Global Voices Online » Africa: Mobile reporting — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:33:09 +0000

[...] African discussing mobile reporting in Africa, “Netherland’s based AfricaNews has been a pioneer in this space, starting last year with [...]

By: Vinita Srivastava

Vinita Srivastava — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:35:44 +0000

Interesting piece – thanks to Global Voices for sending it my way. Currently I am teaching a journalism class in Rwanda. Today I asked my students to type their news story assignment. But with 75 students in the first year class they tell me their are not enough computers. Of the 11 or so working machines they have, only about seven can currently get online. Also, asked them yesterday if their cell phones had the ability to take photos and only a handful (of the 75) said yes. So while I think mobile multimedia journalism is wonderful (I teach a version of it in Toronto, Canada), it may be quite difficult in places like Rwanda and also Ethiopia where the Internet connections are among the slowest in the world. I’m sure it is set to change. Kigali (the capital) is miles apart, web wise, from the rest of the country. But here in my little classroom (physically little, with a large amount of students), things are quite different. Last week, their assignment was to go online and find an article. But even the idea of going online for many students is arduous. Right now, radio is still the number one form of communication here. How and when might this change? And when it does, how might the stories be shared?

By: Ngeny

Ngeny — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:36:44 +0000

This is a good project, something of the same with the Nokia project at Wits University in SA in partnership with Nokia. I think this is the way to go for reporting.

By: Kevin Donovan

Kevin Donovan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:44:07 +0000

I think Jay Rosen or Jeff Jarvis have their students (NYU and CUNY) experimenting with the same system – cool to see the convergence of tools.

By: What About Cellular Phones? Mobile Phone Reporting.. » Mobile Phone Info . net

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:18:45 +0000

[...] Mobile Phone Reporting in Africa For the last year there has been quite a bit of talk about mobile phone reporting in Africa. For good reason too, since this lowers the technology barrier to getting stories out of hard-to-reach places. Imagine, all you need to do is … [...]

By: David McQueen

David McQueen — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:41:55 +0000

Wow this is awesome. Voices of Africa is a huge platform.
Thinks me will write about this on simphani.