Archive for 'Highway Africa 2006' Category
Highway ends
13 September 2006 by JuanitaThe last working session of Highway Africa - at least for the delegates. And Chris Kabwato, HA director, said his thank yous.
“It was really wonderful to have all of you. What’s a conference without people?” Then the inevitable thanks to the sponsors and he went on to name all of six of them. SABC as [...]
Celebrating 50 years of African journalism
13 September 2006 by JuanitaThroughout the three days of conference, participants were asked to contribute to a statement on the 50 years of journalism and media in Africa. And Chris Kabwato, director of Highway Africa, explained that it originated from an idea that “if we are the gathering of the largest group of African journalists, then we need to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »SABC news strategy
13 September 2006 by JuanitaSnuki Zikalala, Group CEO for news, was quite frank when comparing the company to etv. “We are the preferred employer. Call etv, there’s no journalists there - we’ve taken all of them.” He detailed statistics like 54 percent of South Africans watch SABC news, and the stations broadcast 19 bulletins in 11 languages - statistics [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Community media - past, present and future
13 September 2006 by JuanitaLumko Mtimde (CEO of the Media Development and Diversity Agency), Tracy Naughton, Zane Ibrahim (MD of Bush Radio) and Danny Moalisi (National Community Radio Forum) opened the plenary for Community Media: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Mtimde introduced Naughton, who took us back to the eighties and early nineties when community radio was in its infancy.
Particularly by [...]
Tackling the WIPO Casting Treaty
12 September 2006 by JuanitaBack in session at HA and just in time to catch Vera Franz, programme manager at the Open Society Institute’s Information Program, speaking on the WIPO Casting treaty, which aims to extend the broadcast rights to distributors of content, rather than just creators. Franz says there’s heated debate about the potential international law. And with [...]
Read the rest of this entry »HA Opening day
11 September 2006 by JuanitaChris Kabwato, director of Highway Africa, apologised for the weather. English weather under African skies he called it. The rain was quite a surprise. He also explained that HA is more than a conference where more than 500 media/ICT practitioners gather. More from me later - blogging from your phone is hard on your thumb!
Professor [...]
Blogging from Africa’s first blogging conference
8 September 2006 by JuanitaI have spent the past week preparing, with IOL’s Content Manager Rhys Johnstone and IT Manager Gary Collins, to participate in the Highway Africa conference and then the Digital Citizens Indaba on Blogging (DCI) in Grahamstown.
It’s been a decade since Highway Africa started and I’m making my way there for the first time. Luckily, they’ll [...]
