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By: Mozambique: Presidential campaign online – isiAfrica

Mozambique: Presidential campaign online – isiAfrica — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:19:21 +0000

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By: Janet Gunter

Janet Gunter — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:28:57 +0000

Thank you Basílio. Indeed it’s quite interesting to use the Internet Archive to see the history of Frelimo’s web presence. The first page saved in the archive is dated November 26, 1999.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.frelimo.org.mz

Just to be clear, my point in writing this post was not to make any judgments about the different parties’ use of the web. I merely hoped to draw attention to the adoption of Web 2.0 and more “interactive” or “social” communication.

Again, thanks for your comment and contribution on the history of the web in Mozambican politics!

By: BAsílio Muhate

BAsílio Muhate — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:34:04 +0000

Janet,

Dont forget that Frelimo was the first Party creating a website in Mozambique http://www.frelimo.org.mz and using online mobilization in all elections since 1999 through social networks and emails.

It is no true that even before this year’s Presidential campaign officially began in Mozambique, new opposition party Movimento Democrático de Moçambique (Democratic Movement of Mozambique, or MDM) signaled it would take from the “Obama” model of online mobilization, because much time before the creation of MDM online Mobilization model The rulling Party Frelimo had http://www.frelimo.org.mz, http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/frelimo and the Frelimo Group on Hi5.

The first Party putting its videos on Youtube was Frelimo Party and you can search Youtube for Frelimo then you will se the results.

Just research the sites of Frelimo and other parties and you will see the difference !!