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Souvenirsmiles of HAand PACAI
OPEN SOURCE COVERING BOTH HIGHWAY AFRICA 2011 AND PAN AFRICAN CONFERENCE ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION
http://www.pacaia.orghttp://reportingDNA.org
http://www.highwayafrica.com
HA/PACAIA 2011
EDITION 4
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AFRICAN MEDIA AND THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGECAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA 1720 SEPTEMBER 2011PAN AFRICAN CONFERENCE ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION
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ENVIRONMENTALawareness
Whats trending @DCIndaba?By Enathi Mqokeli, Candace Gawler and
Wilhelmina Maboja
The 6th Digital Citizens Indaba (DCI) got
off to an exciting start on a chilly Monday
morning.
Unfortunately, keynote speaker Ndesanjo
Macha, Sub-Saharan Africa editor of Global
Voices Online, was unable to attend due to a
road accident. Nevertheless, Prof. Jane Dun-
can (DCI Coordinator and Highway Africa Chair
of Media and Information Society at Rhodes
University) gave a strong welcoming addressto a room full of citizen journalists, media pro-
fessionals and curious members of the public.
Weve tried to capture the moment, said
Duncan in reference to this years DCI themes.
The WikiLeaks controversy has many impli-
cations for online journalism: when does the
mass release of information start to threaten
society? she asked.
Also on the agenda was the question of how
free and open the internet really is, in light of
the clamp down on access to information on
the internet in various African countries (such
as Zimbabwe and recently Tunisia.
Related to access to information, is the impor-tance of information being available in local
languages. Ndesanjo Macha was one of the
first people to set up a blog exclusively in an
African language called Jikomboe (free your-
self in Swahili).
The first panel discussion was on net neutrali-
ty and the censorship of information online. The
panel comprised Electronic Freedom Charter
author, hacktivist David Robert Lewis, and
Association for Progressive Communications
(APC) executive director Anriette Esterhuysen.
Lewis advocated for the idea of net neutral-
ity, not just in terms of bandwidth access, but
also accessing information without nationalboundaries. He also brought up the Blackberry
furore, and their encryption of their instant mes-
saging service.
Esterhuysen similarly pointed out that eve-
ryday devices and tools threaten net neutral-
ity. In terms of the iPhone, telecommunication
network Safaricom and the Vodafone product
M-pesa from Kenya: be aware that youre
financing the destruction of net neutrality, she
said.
As early as 1985, American writer and online
innovator Stewart Brand said, information
wants to be free. Information also wants to be
expensive ... that tension will not go away.Years later, this remains a key issue.
Mendi Njonjo,moderator for the
panel discussionabout Freedom ofAccess to Online
Information.Photo: FungaiTichawangna.
AnrietteEsterhuysen,Executive Directorof the Associationfor ProgressiveCommunications,discussed thedestruction ofinternet neutrality,
at the paneldiscussion.Photo: DesireeSchirlinger
Prof. HarryDugmore, director
of the DiscoveryCentre for Health
Journalism, speaksabout his Knight
Foundation-fundedproject, IndabaZiyaka which
trains citizenjournalists.
Photo: DesireeSchirlinger
Julie Posetti,described by JaneDuncan as TheQueen of Twittershared advice onsocial networking atthe Digital CitizensIndaba.Photo: DesireeSchirlinger