Comments on: Who Owns the African Blogosphere? http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/22/who-owns-the-african-blogosphere/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Mon, 28 May 2012 15:55:58 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Yahya http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/22/who-owns-the-african-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1196530 Yahya Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:02:21 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/22/who-owns-the-african-blogosphere/#comment-1196530 Asallamu Aleikum. Thank you. The discussions is very pertinent. It appears to me to be an issue of ACCESS and of CULTURE. The rural/urban divide remains an important hurdle. Apart from being a matter of a shift in culture (the tendency people have to approach an issue in a certian manner), crucial also is an economic shift in order to address ACCESS. What can we do to hasten these changes? Am I blogging issues that appeal to an African audience? Am I linking to articles that are being read by Africans? Of course, bloggers by their nature try to push peripheral issues into centre stage, making an argument for this shift in the hope that issues are debated. African netizens derive from a minority and usually hold a certain "conservative" political view, with an interest in keeping peripheral issues where they are. Activists must do more to address these issues (of culture, access and activism) from the ground on up, instead of relying only on the virtual terrain. Asallamu Aleikum. Thank you. The discussions is very pertinent. It appears to me to be an issue of ACCESS and of CULTURE. The rural/urban divide remains an important hurdle. Apart from being a matter of a shift in culture (the tendency people have to approach an issue in a certian manner), crucial also is an economic shift in order to address ACCESS.

What can we do to hasten these changes? Am I blogging issues that appeal to an African audience? Am I linking to articles that are being read by Africans? Of course, bloggers by their nature try to push peripheral issues into centre stage, making an argument for this shift in the hope that issues are debated. African netizens derive from a minority and usually hold a certain “conservative” political view, with an interest in keeping peripheral issues where they are. Activists must do more to address these issues (of culture, access and activism) from the ground on up, instead of relying only on the virtual terrain.

]]> By: Anne http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/22/who-owns-the-african-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1195948 Anne Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:13:07 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/22/who-owns-the-african-blogosphere/#comment-1195948 Ndesanjo - thanks again for your presence at DCI this year. And thanks for the summary here: the discussion was deep and rich and I think moved on quite dramatically from where it started at the first Indaba. We've already started planning for the third Digital Citizen Indaba - and, as you know, this is a collaborative process. I'd like to invite anyone with comments and suggestions - or feedback from DCI 07 - to email me at a.taylor at ru.ac.za. See you next year! Ndesanjo – thanks again for your presence at DCI this year. And thanks for the summary here: the discussion was deep and rich and I think moved on quite dramatically from where it started at the first Indaba.
We’ve already started planning for the third Digital Citizen Indaba – and, as you know, this is a collaborative process. I’d like to invite anyone with comments and suggestions – or feedback from DCI 07 – to email me at a.taylor at ru.ac.za.
See you next year!

]]> By: Capitalism versus communalism — who owns the blogosphere? « Khanya http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/22/who-owns-the-african-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1195862 Capitalism versus communalism — who owns the blogosphere? « Khanya Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:56:42 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/22/who-owns-the-african-blogosphere/#comment-1195862 [...] versus communalism — who owns the blogosphere? Jump to Comments Who owns the African blogosphere? asks Ndesanjo Macha, reporting on the Digital Citizens Indaba held in Grahamstown earlier this [...] [...] versus communalism — who owns the blogosphere? Jump to Comments Who owns the African blogosphere? asks Ndesanjo Macha, reporting on the Digital Citizens Indaba held in Grahamstown earlier this [...]

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