Google 'Baraza' - a question and answer service for Africans 12th Oct 2010
Google is working on a new service called 'Baraza', which will enable Africans to interact and share knowledge by asking and answeringquestions.

Guardian International Development Journalism competition 2010 - winners/finalists announced. 11th Aug 2010
Many crucial issues facing the developing world are often overlooked or underrepresented by the media. The Guardian International Development Journalism competition 2010 aimed to highlight some of them and searched for for enthusiastic writers who wanted to demonstrate their journalistic abilities by examining these issues.

New Fahamu Books and Pambazuka Press Publication - SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa 12th May 2010
SMS Uprising provides a unique insight into how activists and social change advocates are addressing Africa's many challenges from within, and how they are using mobile telephone technologies to facilitate these changes.

Report back from the Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication ‘Community Radio in Bangladesh' Conference 20th Apr 2010
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) held their ‘Community Radio in Bangladesh: Lessons from International Practice, Moving from Policy to Action in Bangladesh’, conference earlier this month. BNNRC is a national networking body that works on media issues based on the principles of the free...

Winner of the 2010 Anthropographia Award for Multimedia and Human Rights announced 16th Mar 2010
Jonathan Torgovnik & MediaStorm win the Anthropographia Award for Multimedia and Human Rights with the piece ' Intended Consequences' which examines the results of the extreme sexual violence endured by many Rwandan women during the genocide. An estimated 20,000 children were conceived during this period in Rwanda, and many...


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